New Energy Chief

I read about this news story today on CNN, and it was one of those things that makes you feel a lot better about being alive. Obama announced (or is about to) that his energy secretary will be Steven Chu, an atomic physicist from UC Berkeley. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 for developing a method to supercool an atom so that you can trap it and manipulate it with a laser. His other research experience includes quantum electronics, polymer physics, biology, spectroscopy, and astrophysics. His resume is mind-boggling if you care to look it up. But it got me thinking, finally we are seeing people put in charge who actually know what they are doing. If the election had turned out different, I doubt a change of pace like this would be happening. Here's to January 20th.