wonkroom.thinkprogress.org In a presentation at this summer’s National Clean Energy Summit convened by the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), and the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Dr. Steven Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, described why he has moved from his background in advanced laser research to tackling global warming, how the optimal way to reduce greenhouse emissions is to invest in energy efficiency, and what he has done to develop “new technologies to transform the landscape.”
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al5mnd9trnksdr745bi · August 18, 2011 at 7:53 pm
“…The Energy Department’s Steven Chu is loaning Fiat $3.5 billion so that it can pay the Treasury Department $7.6 billion even though American taxpayers spent $13 billion to save an American car company worth $5 billion…Obama plans to make this “success” a centerpiece of his 2012 campaign.
…combine it with the $11 billion (at least) that is being lost in the General Motors bailout.”
—Doug Mataconis 23 July 2011
bb4960 · August 18, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Dr, Chu, please discontinue all secret psycho-genetic programs. Your DoE contracted scientists operating from clandestine subterranean labs apply synthetic-telepathic/neuro-impulse weapons upon innocent and unsuspecting Americans, rendering their lives hopeless and destroyed.
hiccup06gmailcom · August 18, 2011 at 8:26 pm
i like this guy
onecoolgreek · August 18, 2011 at 8:37 pm
GRANDIZER CASH…. google it get a fax machine and a computer not linked to you such as a library and a safety deposit box and i will show you how i picked myself up off from the street’s and made money with no investments my ideas are Sneaky and tactfull and you will thank me when you get the info that is designed for two pages you will realize you dont need a book to make the money you need the PROTO -TYPE WAYS
onecoolgreek · August 18, 2011 at 9:33 pm
what will happen to the petro dollar system if oil is not bartered for the dollar the america as we know it will lose it’s reserve
onecoolgreek · August 18, 2011 at 10:11 pm
GRANDIZER CASH…. google it get a fax machine and a computer not linked to you such as a library and a safety deposit box and i will show you how i picked myself up off from the street’s and made money with no investments my ideas are Sneaky and tactfull and you will thank me when you get the info that is designed for two pages you will realize you dont need a book to make the money you need the PROTO -TYPE WAYS
TiMMYSQUibbLES · August 18, 2011 at 10:40 pm
Obama couldn’t bring it to congress because it would expose those who would benefit from it.
cynthiadupuy · August 18, 2011 at 11:11 pm
Japan weather wars –
Noah = NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Japeth = Japan
Shem = sham/trick/fooling of people
Ham = radio wave technology/scalar handlers
They have genocide themselves
birdmanofbooze · August 18, 2011 at 11:57 pm
@Felix1085 Chu is a academia nerd, no clue of the cost of his fantasy programs on the American poor and middle class…
birdmanofbooze · August 19, 2011 at 12:06 am
Elitist MORON chu
ThunderheadNebula · August 19, 2011 at 12:58 am
John R. Christy has been accused of recanting his position that climate change is neither Anthropogenic nor Catastrophic, but he didn’t. He used two independent data sets, weather balloon and satellite for his findings. (see links in my about me) Later he only stated that there was some anthropogenic impact that could not be predicted 100 years out, but that what we’re doing was good for the plants.
ThunderheadNebula · August 19, 2011 at 1:13 am
2/2 watch?v=bgKr480RYc4
Obama’s Former Green Jobs Czar and Communist, Van Jones
Admits Left is ‘PRETENDING’ Need for Regulations in Green Movement
ThunderheadNebula · August 19, 2011 at 1:19 am
1 /2 Obama stop offshore drilling until it was reinstated. This could cause a $5 a gallon increase, because we would grow dependent upon foreign nations we are not allies with in order to provide our oil. Cap and Trade (American Power Act) would increase gas prices increase by $2.58 a gallon according to George C. Marshall Institute& taxes on the average household up to $3200 according to the RNC Foreign countries price gouge w/ gas prices to $10/gal!.
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Allen West 2012
TheEvilCrew · August 19, 2011 at 1:32 am
@SeanIsri21 Shut up you no good piece of ape shit…. go die.
PlugOutTuneIn · August 19, 2011 at 2:19 am
Dr. Chu has some very promising ideas. Let’s hope they don’t get caught up in political backlog.
bigfatdick5000 · August 19, 2011 at 3:19 am
He’s GOOD, he’s an expert in the field, finally someone assigned to a position that knows what he’s doing.
oscuradiosa · August 19, 2011 at 4:16 am
The best way to get rid of the need for Fuel for your car is to develop something cheaper. Do not artificially drive the price of fuel up make something cheaper that people will WANT to buy. Putting a gun to their head or raising gas to 8 bux a gallon will make people mad not solve the problem.
oscuradiosa · August 19, 2011 at 4:50 am
Lets go to nuclear Power. Burning Food to run vehicles is stupid with the increase in population of the Earth. And for all those that say stop wasting energy … you and I are on Computers are they really really not a huge waste of Energy..?
33noa33 · August 19, 2011 at 5:42 am
In the northwestern Australia, we have huge tides,
huge evaporation and huge dry rivers and lakes.
Tides are up to 12m. Evaporation is up to 4m per year and can be increased.
Huge 12m tidal erosion can revive old dry paleo dormant once mighty rivers, creeks and lakes,
desalinate the country and change deserts to rain forests to provide more rain across Australia.
World population is growing rapidly and we need more energy, food, land and water.
see: mitic climate engineering
prop23FAIL · August 19, 2011 at 6:42 am
Love it!!
Great video — keep it up! We need to invest more in Green industries but in California, but prop 23 is a threat to those investments. Prop 23 is down in the polls, but the Yes on 23 campaign just got a new influx of hot, anonymous cash, so we’ll need to fend them off in the home stretch to Election Day.
Hit me back if you’d like to talk Prop 23. We’re coming out with a bunch of great No on Prop 23 videos soon!
- prop23FAIL
VimisMoscow · August 19, 2011 at 7:27 am
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VimisMoscow · August 19, 2011 at 8:18 am
HYDROGEN ENERGY PROJECT, INVESTORS WANTED
THE BLACK SEA IS THE SOLUTION FOR NATURAL HYDROGEN PRODUCTION FOR THE WHOLE WORLD!
LET’S HELP OUR ENVIORNMENT, AND SAVE THE WORLD FROM NATURAL DISASTERS.
GO GREEN ! VISIT VIMISM COM FOR MORE INFO
Cypherfall · August 19, 2011 at 8:29 am
@TheEvilCrew arent tidal and wave power the same thing?
momoruvspoo · August 19, 2011 at 9:21 am
@pudicus2
Yeah well the corporate powers should realize that when people are killing each other in the street over things like water, that monetary expenses don’t mean shit.
jackface0410 · August 19, 2011 at 10:02 am
This guy’s the sort of man who makes us all look like idiots and feel inadequate. His list of honours, titles and prizes is staggering.