I’m really impressed by President Obama’s cabinet choices. He has made some bold choices, selected a wide variety of stellar individuals, and is creating a “super think tank,” to help America get out of this mess we’re in.

San Francisco Gate Reports:

In recent news, President-elect Barack Obama is expected to nominate Nobel-laureate physicist Steven Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a renowned expert on alternative fuels and climate change, as the nation’s energy secretary.

The selection of Chu, who has led efforts to use solar energy in cars and to work with oil companies on biofuels, would signal a bold new direction in the United States’ response to climate change, critics of the Bush administration said Wednesday.

“The Chu pick is exciting because (he) will bring scientific rigor to the new administration’s energy policy,” said Daniel J. Weiss, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington think tank. “After the anti-science Bush administration, this is like going to a Mensa meeting after eight years of being trapped in the Flat Earth Society.”

Exciting indeed! Chu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 and as director of the Berkeley lab since 2004, Chu has endeavored to make it the world leader in renewable energy research. Hopefully, in the next 20 years, we will all be driving hybrids.