The people that want to close the DOE ( Energy ), and most of the American public... have absolutely NO IDEA what the DOE actually does. People hear the word "energy" and they start thinking either electricity or oil / coal / natural gas... or even nuclear reactors.
The only one that even comes close is nuclear reactors.
The DOE has some minor roles in the production of energy... either fossil fuels or green, doesn't really matter.
The DOE is the agency of the government that make nuclear bombs. Makes them, tests them, improves them, etc. Period, Stop, end of story. It is the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, Oakridge TN. etc.
It maintains the US nuclear stockpile... and does it without conducting tests ( either above ground or underground ). It has done so for many decades. It is also the premier set of laboratories for physics in the world. It researches fusion power, it improves fission reactors, and "dabbles" in green energy. While it does some things related to fossil fuels, it is so little that it disappears in the DOE budget.
It maintains the nuclear stockpile and develops new nuclear weapons by simulation... the world's largest supercomputers and hybrid ( AI plus trad super ) are located at DOE laboratories.
The people in charge of the DOE need to have a PhD in physics... it should be a requirement.
Not some fracking moron.
He will show up and ask what all these physics people are doing and will be bewildered at the answers.
Sigh. Again the USA is being set up to fail... because we have "elected" a complete moron.
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