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United States Energy Secretary Steven Chu is coming to Menlo Park to talk about his vision for the country’s energy future.
Chu will speak to Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) scientists in Menlo Park on Friday, June 26.
The visit comes on the heels of a June 23 announcement that Tesla Motors of San Carlos, makers of electric cars, has received approval for about $465 million in low-interest loans from the U.S. Department of Energy.
The funding is to accelerate the production of affordable, fuel-efficient electric vehicles.
Chu was co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics and is a former Stanford University professor of physics.
Prior to his Obama administration appointment, he was a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
SLAC is a multipurpose laboratory for astrophysics, photon science, accelerator and particle physics research and is home to a two-mile linear accelerator — the longest in the world.
Before going to Lawrence Livermore, Steven Chu was a professor at Stanford Univ. where he was working when he received his Nobel Prize.
So it is both fitting that Dr. Chu is back in this area and great news that Tesla is getting funding to produce affordable electric cars.
I plan to listen to Dr. Chu to try and figure out why he is not providing significant funding for fuel cell technologhy