Steven Chu resigned bc under his watch the Obama admin made a $500 mil bet on a company that went under
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And it went under probably not bc of lurid tales of massive waste but bc the price of silicon dropped
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So the regular solar panels Solyndra was competing with became dirt cheap and their business model failed. It happens
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Ok, fine, Secretary Chu should still eat the bad PR from wasting public money. But this isn't in the same universe as Trump-level failure
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And Chu being "more qualified as a scientist than a businessman" is not a reason to hire someone with no qualification as either
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Especially bc this stuff is a very small part of the DoE's job and nuclear regulation and research a very large part
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And yes I am frustrated as an Asian, though I am not in fact related to Steven Chu (probably)
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Solyndra is an example of how Republicans crucified Obama for any perceived "waste" but have now elected the most wasteful man in America
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I vaguely know ppl who work in that kind of materials science tech (my dad's field). I'm told things like this happen often
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And that a private investor wouldn't last long w the kind of fainting horror reaction that the GOP did to the Solyndra situation
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(The fact that solar energy *in general* became much cheaper than anticipated should've been good news but capitalism is filled w ironies)
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(The fact that conservatives walked out of this story w the vague sense "all clean energy is a scam" is why we can't have nice things)
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on the bright side, the free market has picked up clean energy and is sprinting with it so
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