Steven Chu
British Prime Minister David Cameron (2L) speaks next to British Energy Secretary Ed Davey (2R) and US Energy Secretary Steven Chu (R) and another delegate (L) at the Clean Energy Ministerial conference (CEM3) in London on April 26, 2012. Cameron addressed ministers from 23 countries at the clean energy meeting saying that he believed the growth of renewable energy was vital to the UK's future.
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The Energy Department's long-term investments in shale gas research during the '70s and '80s helped pave the way for today's boom in domestic natural gas production that is projected to cut the cost of natural gas by 30 percent by 2025 while creating thousands of American jobs
While this is just the beginning, this research could potentially yield significant new supplies of natural gas
By identifying North American geological formations with large CO2 storage potential, this new atlas provides the kind of fundamental information that, combined with technology innovation, can help fossil-fuelled facilities continue their essential energy role while reducing carbon pollutionMore quotes »
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Ward Melville H.S. places in National Science Bowl
Melville High School senior Ariel Yang was among hundreds of students to hear United States Secretary of Energy Steven Chu speak in Washington D.C.Yang was inspired by what Chu told students competing in the U.S. Department of Energys 22nd National Science Read more »
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Solyndra , explained
Solyndra is back in the news today, with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney making a surprise appearance at the California headquarters of the failed energy company. Republicans have repeatedly argued that the Obama Administration’s investment in from The Washington Post Read more »
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Victor Davis Hanson: Secretaries gone wild
of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, whose department helped oversee millions in bad loans to green companies such as Solyndra, First Solar and Solar Trust of America -- the Teapot Dome scandals of our times. Chu quipped before assuming office that he wanted from The San Jose Mercury News Read more »
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Mitt stirs up bad memories for W.H.
Mitt Romney’s latest attack on President Barack Obama’s energy policies takes him to Solyndra’s shuttered manufacturing plant in Fremont, Calif., the site of several moments the White House might like to forget. Obama visited the plant just about two yea from The Politico Read more »
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Steven Chu vs. Bernie Madoff, by Arnold Kling
I don't find it very credible that Steven Chu spends his whole life studying physics (and extremely successful at it) so one day he could reward some political cronies of his boss. Comparing Chu to Madoff, really? Really. I think a reasonable case can be from EconLog Read more »
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Round-table discussion focuses on change and its impact on the world
More Photos Click thumbnails to enlarge J.S. Carras — The Record U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, and Dr. Edward Feigenbaum, Ph.D., Kumagai Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at Stanford University, listen to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Pres from The Troy Record Read more »
