[Phys-L] article about Steve Chu and ARPA-E

[John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>]

In case you ever want examples of interesting things that physicists do 
when they are not in the classroom:  The Atlantic has an article on what 
Steve Chu has been up to at the Department of Energy.

> After receiving an unprecedented surge in funding for renewable
> energy courtesy of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Chu
> set to work hiring big names from the nation's top research
> laboratories, in order to staff a new agency called ARPA-E, modeled
> after DARPA, the R&D wing of the Pentagon. In just three years,
> ARPA-E has made more than 180 investments in basic research projects
> in renewable energy, and that's in addition to grants issued by the
> Department of Energy proper,

The whole article is at:
  http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/amid-partisan-bickering-everyone-agrees-arpa-e-is-a-fascinating-experiment/261905/

Background info:
  http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1997/chu-autobio.html
  http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1079