Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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I guess harping on Solyndra, which is a 1/2 billion dollar loss, is a way of avoiding the discussion of the 3,000 billion dollars the previous administration's unnecessary war in Iraq will cost us. If you've read the IEEE Spectrum articles on reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq, you will see that Solyndra is small beer indeed.
March 20, 2012 9:19 PM
Bush's fault. Wow, don't you even feel the slightest sense of embarrassment about being such an obvious liberal cliche? What change are you hoping for now, brainless one?
That's hard to defend and a stupid attitude considering the hard working, fast declining middle class in this country. They simply can't afford it.
However, $4 per gallon gas is something that Americans will just have to get use to. Oil man T. Boone Pickens recently said that you'll likely never see $2.50 gas again here in the United States. You don't have to be a genius to understand that buying at least a 40 MPG compact vehicle as your next car is the only logical choice.
The founders did not allow the average person to vote. You had to own property, be a man, and be of European ancestry. I'm not saying I think that was wise or just. But it is worth understanding that they were human beings shaped by their particular circumstances.
Hmm, they seal you in the time capsule sometime before Richard Nixon?
March 20, 2012 9:35 PM"
Uh...Iraq was Bush's fault. How can a fact be a cliche?
During his brief visit to Los Alamos a few years ago, it was readily apparent to those around him that he couldn't wait to fly out of the place. He spend all of around 2 hours at LANL.
His true love, when it comes to national labs, is the one in which he served as their Director, Livermore Berkeley Lab (LBL). They've seen a huge increase in their funding for non-defense related science projects since Dr. Chu took the helm at DOE.
March 20, 2012 9:50 PM
Wrong! Bentley for me.
Charlie
March 20, 2012 9:50 PM
Only if your "logic" includes not having enough money to cope with higher gas prices. You choose your education, which determines your career, your salary potential, and your life earnings. You choose your lifestyle, which includes family, kids, housing type, material goods, and savings versus spending. As a result, you either find yourself easily able to adapt to economic setbacks and stresses, such as high gas prices, or not. No one's doing or fault but your own. Live with it. Or not.
That would be Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
What a jerk, what makes you so special? The people at the labs are no better or worse than anyone else. Now they have to live like the rest of America. Welcome to the real world.
March 22, 2012 7:17 AM
Very egalitarian of you. Meaningless soft-headed pablum. Who said anything about "the labs"? Your parochialism is showing.
Of course, the primary benefactor at DOE for this new push will be Dr. Chu's old lab, LBL. They'll run the institue that will oversee the project for DOE. No surprise here, right?