"kT" wrote in message
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in the high temperature superconductivity puzzle :

http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/6060.html

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1165015

I hope this comes out on the archive tonight, but you can download the
supporting online material :

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten...ci;1165015/DC1

Obama just picked Steven Chu for energy secretary, so you gotta know that they
know about this at the highest level of government already.



Stephen Chu! Wow! Ya know, I've forgotten how good it can
feel when our government makes an intelligent decision.


He is decidedly in favor of dramatic action to prevent global warming
from this article.


May 23, 2006 4:00 AM PDT

Newsmaker: Superweeds, air caves
and the future of energy

"Steve Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
invariably leaves audiences with two impressions: Science is
absolutely fascinating, and humanity is dancing on the
precipice of oblivion."

"He's directing the lab to come up with better sources of energy
and ways to conserve it."
"One of the more promising solutions lies in the genetic code, he says.
In coming years, scientists might be able to breed, or even create,
plants that convert more of the energy from the sun into usable
energy. Solar also shows strong promise."

How about nuclear? We've had it for a long time, but is it politically
just too much of a lightning rod?

"Chu: I hope that coal becomes more of the lightning rod. It should be.
If you think about coal, it's really scary because it's our most abundant
natural energy resource. And the countries that have the most are the
most energy-consuming countries, namely us, China and then Russia
in that order. It has sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide and mercury
pollution problems. In China, it's killing their people, its killing
their infrastructure."
http://news.cnet.com/Superweeds,-air...3-6075116.html




Go Obama Go! Can't wait till he announces a new NASA boss.


Jonathan

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