Energy Secretary Chu: "I Am A Nerd"

businessinsider.com:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) Even though he is 15th in the line of succession to the U.S. presidency, Energy Secretary Steven Chu still thinks he's a nerd.

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[BannedNBoston]

The problem with hydrogen as a storage medium is that hydrogen clumps together when it sits!
hydroxy gas doesnt clump together and can be stored in existing propane tanks.
hydroxy gas can be burned in internal combustion engines.

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[Sumocat]

Chu is being far too humble. The man froze atoms with laser beams. He just isn't a nerd; he's one of the greatest nerds to ever walk the earth. Any tool can aspire to build a giant laser to blow stuff up. It takes real genius to go the opposite direction.

[mioffe]

Dear Sumocat, yours expression "the greatest nerds to ever walk the earth" remind me the same spirit, which bring to power Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao and others the greatest.
Please do not make cult from any person.
In Global Warming Steven Chu repeats mistakes of Al Gore and scientists who advised to him or support him.
In these directions he is dangerous and need to be fired ASAP.

[MyTake]

NERD'S don't do mountain top coal mining.

NERD'S don't stop all DOE funding of HYDROGEN FUEL CELL research after being in the DOE position under 1 month.

OMG, this NERD came from the RANKS of the elite CFR (along with 300 others positioned in the Obama Administration). This mean's the NERD is directly tied to the Rockefeller Syndicate's Oil and International Banking interests.

Someone should sit the NERD down in front of a TV and have him watch the NBA or NHL playoff game's NEW GM commercial. They "FAST CLIP" through the NEW GM images and there is an image of a FUEL CELL CAR. This pollution free technology solves all climate change issues and gives people their own personal source of electricity and yet this technology has FLOWN RIGHT OVER THE NERD's HEAD and he dares not utter this phrase in public. Come to think of it, neither does OBAMA. But both can scream CLEAN COAL!

Maybe the NOBEL NERD can explain why the Verizon Communications Building in Garden City is quietly using 6 FULLY OPERATIONAL 200 kwh Hydrogen fuel cell electrical generator's to supply 75% of the building power: http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/06/10/verizon-call-switching-center-powered-by-fuel-cells/ !!!!!!!!

[mioffe]

Mr. President fire Secretary of energy Mr. Steven Chu, not because he is nerd, but because he support wrong ideas of Al Gore and scientists, who advice him or support him about GW.
GHG are not main players in Nature.
Solar cells, wind energy, geothermal, nuclear, hydrogen cells are very expensive and even if we forget about batteries, construction, concreate production sources of GHG they produce heat as pollution.
ALL THESE DIRECTIONS ARE NOT SO GREEN AS ADVERTISED!

[BrettnCalgary]

You do realize that hydrogen gas is an energy carrier/storage medium? It is not an energy source, hydrogen does not occur in its free form in nature. As a technology hydrogen fuel cells compete with batteries, not gasoline.

There are two ways to synthesize hydrogen gas, electrolysis, fracturing water into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity, or extracting it from hydrocarbons, petroleum or natural gas.

[mioffe]

Dear BrettnCalgary, all fossil fuel - coal, natural gas, coal, oil and even wood are "energy carrier/storage medium" of sun energy.
I am writing this only to emphasize your point that batteries and hydrogen cells are using sun energy with very low efficiency. We are loosing energy, when we need charge them .
We are loosing energy, when we use them. It is dead end of future technology.
In this case I am completely agree with Secretary of energy, Steven Chu, but I am still asking Mr. President fire him asap.

[Clayton139]

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[JScott]

Not a bad thing especially after having dorks, dunces and bullies in the last presidential admin.

[mikebythesun]

The geek shall inherit the earth!

But seriously, I'm glad he's a "nerd" - I trust a nerd way more than some blowhard with an agenda.

[mikefina]

Oh really, as if nerds don't have an agenda.

I have it on first hand infromation that Mr. Chu is opposed to corsages. He thinks them elitist. And too likely to promote fraternization to which he is unaccustomed.

He also disdains exhalation. He is fine with ihalation, but remains convinced that the exhalation of CO2 is exponentially more harmful to the planet than the sum total of all bovine flatulus.

But, he is a self-confessed nerd, so, let's give science a chance to prove him wrong....

[jacobomorales]

That's okay, we all know you can't drive either. The important thing is that you do a good job and help save the planet. We are on your side.

[AtheistUS]

I would drive bike most of time if our roads would be more safe for bicyclists.

[Madmac]

We'll take the Nerd...

[wadenelson1]

With eyewear like that the headline was superfluous.

[BannedNBoston]

Real green policy is LEGALIZING HEMP giving farmers freedom!
hemp
8x more bio-diesel than soy or canola
6x more fiber than cotton
best chicken and turkey feed(they grow twice as fast)

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[MyTake]

Oh, don't stop there on the list of Hemp's renewable and eco friendly value's.

All building lumber can be replaced with manufactured HEMP fiber which is stronger and lasts longer than wood, chip board and particle board used today. This would leave the trees standing to absorb carbon dioxide.

Hemp fiber can replace the entire pulp and paper industry. Only 1 out of a gazillion Americans know that it was Randolph Hearst that bribed politicians to have HEMP placed into the Narcotic Control Act in order to protect his vast timber holdings and publishing empire.

But the NOBEL Nerd Chu should know all this stuff! OMG, I forgot that he holds membership in CFR and he will do exactly as the Rockefeller syndicate tells him to do.

[rockyb26]

the part about the security detail "peddling behind" him was so cute.

[classicalgeek]

I have visions of the Secret Service pedalling along, stopping to open their watch- or jewelry-lined jackets and striking deals with passersby. Or perhaps twirling an umbrella as they're riding, as on Seinfeld.

[trimom]

Obama has really provided us with some decent role models for our kids.

[quillsinister]

YES!

Nerd power!

Seriously, the nerds from my high school all went on to very high powered jobs in government and business, and ironically we've also been the ones to experience the most success in traditionally manly jobs like the military (the jocks all enlisted for four years and got out, while we all went to college and became officers). And when I go back home, I and my old nerdy friends are mostly flying in from cool and exotic places, while the jocks tend to work locally installing car stereos and such. They told us that out intelligence would eventually make up for not being on the football team (I was a soccer and track guy, myself) and they were right!

I for one salute our geeky President and his geeky cabinet members. Now let's all go save the world with our +1 bonuses and natural twenty attack rolls!

:-D

[StephenJK]

I guess humility isn't one of the nerds' strong points, eh?

[quillsinister]

Usually it is, by necessity. Every once in a while, though, often in solidarity to other nerds experiencing great success, it's ok to let that slip a little bit. We all do it. Don't you think the aforementioned jocks ever had moments, around the Superbowl, maybe, where they just had to say, "Man, it's just so AWSOME to be a football player!" Or the immediate outpouring of joy in the redneck community in 2000 when lots of people in pickup trucks knew that we'd elected a President they'd like to have a beer with? Yeah, this is a little bit like that. And I certainly wouldn't begrudge them that. It's just that now, it's our turn.

;-)

[ibsteve2u]

lollll...the dearth of comments on this story tells me that the Republicans have succeeded: Make the smart people disappear.

[AtheistUS]

After looking for a few days (or weeks) through infinite line of headers on actors, models, athletes and simply celebs, I see an article about a real scientist here. Not bad. Even better if this will happen more frequently.

For many this is boring to death as compared to oily legs or genitals stories, but... you know... why not try intelligent sides of life too, at least sometimes.