Dr. Stephen Chu came to UNM to address the student body in a town hall type setting. I decided to capture some quotes and thoughts from the assembly on twitter. You can check out everything here:

#secofenergy

I have no idea how long that link will be active. If anyone knows of a way to get permalinks to tweets, I’d be appreciative.

Here are some other thoughts from the meeting:

• The person who asked the first question was a total loser. He asked Secretary Chu about lobbying in Congress, and while that stuff is pretty rampant, the Secretary isn’t running for office. Ask him about science and technology, loser!
• I was disappointed by the attention to industry and the focus on fuel costs. There was a lot of answers pertaining to financial situations. While a large part of the audience probably enjoyed these answers, I was not satisfied.
• I wish there was more focus on how the academic community could lead the charge into clean/green energy (since most of the questions were about that). There was only a little emphasis on the fact that we were at a university center and that were are all the future of the country. Shame.

I guess that’s really all I have to comment on. Like I said you can read the quotes in the twitter stream to find out what Secretary Chu had to say about various policies with regards to the US energy situation.