Your tone of voice and things you may or may not say in public are not the only things that might mark you as radical.
Painting everything white to fight warming might be a start. Thinking we need to drive our economy and our country into oblivion by having outrageous gas prices to force change is a little better start. Taking tax dollars and investing them in failed ideas because you worship at the thrown of inefficient green energy is a big indicator.
Lets go with quirky and out of touch. Would that be more in line with how he thinks?
For his global glucose economy, vast supplies of fast-growing crops would be planted in the sunny tropics. The plants would be converted into glucose. The glucose would be shipped around the world much as oil is today, for eventual conversion into biofuels to run our cars. Wow! What an approach to the energy problem.
Heck that sounds easy especially since there is no infrastructure. How many trees to do you chop down to make room for the plants you will use? How many millions of gallons of fuel a day will this produce?
As Chu explained in a interview in 2007 when he was director of the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, “Termites have developed a symbiotic relationship with colonies of bacteria that reside inside a termite’s gut and convert biomass, specifically cellulose, mostly from wood, into chemical energy the termite can utilize.
“If we can learn to either genetically engineer the microorganisms from termite guts, or cow guts…to produce more energy from biomass than they need, or else adapt the chemistry within the microorganisms to process the biomass ourselves, we would go a long way towards reducing our dependency…(on) oil.”
Same questions
He explained in the interview: “We think a solution to the energy problems may lie at the interface between biology and the physical sciences on the nanoscale. We are now mounting a major, multidisciplinary initiative…which would develop ways to convert solar energy into a carbon-neutral form of energy that could sustain our world in an environmentally friendly manner,
“To do this, we are drawing on our expertise in nanotechnology and synthetic biology and the resources…at the West Berkeley Biocenter…and at The Molecular Foundry, a U.S. Department of Energy nanoscale science research center “We believe that a well-conceived program put in place now has the potential to provide the people of the United States with renewable energy security and economic growth for decades to come.”
Broun: “So what grade would you give yourself?”
Chu: “Oh -”
Broun: “A to F, what grade would you give yourself?”
Chu: “There’s always room for improvement, maybe an A-.”
The man is an environmentalist nut who wishes up pipe dreams that have no chance and burn through our money faster than Obama through a cheeseburger when his wife isn't around to smack him in the back of the head.
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"You lie!" The Prophet Joe Wilson
Painting everything white to fight warming might be a start. Thinking we need to drive our economy and our country into oblivion by having outrageous gas prices to force change is a little better start. Taking tax dollars and investing them in failed ideas because you worship at the thrown of inefficient green energy is a big indicator.
Lets go with quirky and out of touch. Would that be more in line with how he thinks?
For his global glucose economy, vast supplies of fast-growing crops would be planted in the sunny tropics. The plants would be converted into glucose. The glucose would be shipped around the world much as oil is today, for eventual conversion into biofuels to run our cars. Wow! What an approach to the energy problem.
Heck that sounds easy especially since there is no infrastructure. How many trees to do you chop down to make room for the plants you will use? How many millions of gallons of fuel a day will this produce?
As Chu explained in a interview in 2007 when he was director of the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, “Termites have developed a symbiotic relationship with colonies of bacteria that reside inside a termite’s gut and convert biomass, specifically cellulose, mostly from wood, into chemical energy the termite can utilize.
“If we can learn to either genetically engineer the microorganisms from termite guts, or cow guts…to produce more energy from biomass than they need, or else adapt the chemistry within the microorganisms to process the biomass ourselves, we would go a long way towards reducing our dependency…(on) oil.”
Same questions
He explained in the interview: “We think a solution to the energy problems may lie at the interface between biology and the physical sciences on the nanoscale. We are now mounting a major, multidisciplinary initiative…which would develop ways to convert solar energy into a carbon-neutral form of energy that could sustain our world in an environmentally friendly manner,
“To do this, we are drawing on our expertise in nanotechnology and synthetic biology and the resources…at the West Berkeley Biocenter…and at The Molecular Foundry, a U.S. Department of Energy nanoscale science research center “We believe that a well-conceived program put in place now has the potential to provide the people of the United States with renewable energy security and economic growth for decades to come.”
Broun: “So what grade would you give yourself?”
Chu: “Oh -”
Broun: “A to F, what grade would you give yourself?”
Chu: “There’s always room for improvement, maybe an A-.”
The man is an environmentalist nut who wishes up pipe dreams that have no chance and burn through our money faster than Obama through a cheeseburger when his wife isn't around to smack him in the back of the head.
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"You lie!" The Prophet Joe Wilson