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Obama's pick to solve the energy crisis

How's this for change? Steven Chu, an actual physicist who wants to stop climate change and revolutionize solar power, gets the nod as energy secretary.
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  • Thursday, December 11, 2008 05:29 AM

    And oh

    The manufacturing process for solar panels releases 700x more greenhouse gases than any corresponding per BTU system using petro.

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