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!
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Two new DOE sub-offices. The Grid Deployment office and the Office of State and Community Energy Programs. The latter to deal with the States, Tribes and Territories. To me, it would seem that the latter is an office created to get someone a cushy federal job.
The first office - Grid Deployment. It would seem that the government has failed us. ERDA was created under Ford, DOE under Carter and we've had to go through 6 more presidents, 2 ERDA Leaders, 16 secretaries of DOE and 47 years to create/focus on the electrical grid. Either a whole lot of people have been asleep at the wheel or this "new" office is a means to get some more space for little piglets to get their share at the taxpayer trough.
I can see asleep at the wheel. Livermore Lab's electrical grid suffered a near total meltdown in the 80's when it hadn't been properly upgraded and maintained since the days of the naval base. The lab learned a painful and powerful lesson when that failure occurred. Maybe that lesson will need to be visited upon California to get a wake up call. Perhaps then the AC goes out at the French Laundry and a bottle of expensive wine looses its chill.