Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
Comments
PBIs, Baby! It's all that matters and all that NNSA really cares about. BTW, have you noticed that not a single PBI involves science and research? Message heard, NNSA, loud and clear.
Energy policy?
Nuclear power resolved?
Weapons complex stabilized?.
Renewable energy lab?
DOE mediocrity eliminated?.
Spent fuel storage resolved?
Gas prices are sky high?
The best small automotive diesels thrive in...Asia, Europe, South America?
Large scale ethanol for auto use?
The LLCs still exist.
Is he trying? White roads? Really? Is he the Mandarin's scientific curio?
Even O'bama tried something.
Chu earned his Nobel as a scientist. Bravo. It may or may not be relevant when it comes to leading/coercing/enduring the bureaucracy.
Many of the topics listed are broad policy issues with many non-technical influences. I think Chu is more sincerely interested in, and knowledgeable of, energy policy than any other Secretary until one goes back to Schlesinger. The nation has floundered around on nuclear power, spent fuel, etc. for decades. Chu was suppose to resolve that in two years? Large scale ethanol is as much about agricultural subsidies and trade policy toward Brazil.
He's trying, but D.C. is probably giving him a big headache.
People follow leaders, politicians form consensus.
If he said. "We failed. DOE is useless, it needs to go." and began shutting it down, it would at least begin somethingpositive, and by the way, not hurt the country one bit.
Yes!? needs want to do. It is time to sit on a pot or find bathroom. To post to drunk by 10pm.
January 31, 2011 6:41 AM
Wow, what?? Nothing in your post applies to the post you reference. Maybe you are the one with the head in the toilet? Still drunk at 7:00 am?
January 29, 2011 9:34 PM
Nothing compared to the headache he's giving us!!