Physicist Searches for Alternative Fuel Technologies Nobel
Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu and his team of scientists
received $500 million in February from energy company BP to
develop clean biofuel technologies. As part of a series on
climate change, the NewsHour profiles Chu's search for solutions
to fuel problems. SPENCER MICHELS, NewsHour Correspondent: It
was a sign of how in vogue concern about global warming is: Six
Nobel Prize-winning scientists at the University of California
at Berkeley donned makeup and posed in a tree... PHOTOGRAPHER:
No, don't stand, don't stand. Don't smile. Nothing to smile
about. SPENCER MICHELS: ... for a special green issue of Vanity
Fair. Among the science stars was Steven Chu, a 59-year-old
physicist who, as director of the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, welcomed the attention to the problem. Today, Chu is
using his bully pulpit to coordinate a scientific attack on
global warming. STEVEN CHU, Scientist: So if you say, "Wait
until you're really sure," then it wi