Posted on 03/17/2017 5:48:59 PM PDT by mdittmar
Standing at Brookhaven National Lab, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today revealed that the just-released White House budget decimates the ?nation’s national labs, including BNL, a world-renowned lab responsible for innovation, research and nearly 3,000 LI jobs. Schumer sounded the alarm and expressed serious concerns over a proposal to cut $900 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, which funds national laboratories, like Brookhaven, and $2 billion from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), the nuclear energy office, the energy reliability office, as well as the fossil energy research office.
(Excerpt) Read more at schumer.senate.gov ...
“They can keep the good stuff and throw out the crap like “global warming studies.”
Absolute truth. All the national labs HAVE to do “global hoax” work or FedGov won’t send money. There are other things that can be cut, as well.
I think with a smaller budget the less essential functions will wither.
Looks like that ion beam thing started in 1987,how’s that coming along?
“No profit in it?”
Outside users pay for beam time. Over a kilobuck an hour or more!
The benefit to the sat owner makes it worthwhile. If you can control how many upsets you get, and reduce the number of software reboot/downloads, you spend more time pushing data through your antennas, which pays for the sat.
They sit around filling out gub mint apps. For assistance.
Still running afaik. I think it was running before ‘87. The Tandem is impressive, a hall with two large tanks connected by beamlines and bending magnets. Imagine a room with two submarines end to end with real sci-fi looking gear all over.
How about cutting jobs at the big fat black building in Utah, like 100% rif.
I’ll bet they were doing climate research.
Children and minorities hardest hit.
Huge waste fraud and abuse. No question. My brother-in-law 20 years ago worked at INEEL in Idaho and their whole purpose was to find a way to dispose of the nuclear waste. They’ve been working on it since 1949. There are 9000 workers. Many with degrees and with doctorates. They get paid tons of money. If you do an experiment you have to charge the Government thousands of dollars so you can put it in the budget next year, even if you can do it for $15. Where is our solution? 9000 people working on this problem for 68 years. Wasting taxpayer dollars that’s what they’re doing to give these guys a job forever.
Hanford
“From Wikipedia:”
Just to be clear, Wikipedia is not a pillar of truth. You can edit it, I can edit it, Algore can edit it.
You can save twice that cut by eliminating DOE’s duplicative oversight of environmental, safety and health issues.
I realize that. It’s a quick reference, nothing more. That’s why I cite the source so people know where it came from. If they’re interested, they can search further online.
Does this end Baseline Budgeting for good?
Democrats think that reducing a built in planned Increase is a Cut thanks to Baseline Budgeting.
I wonder if this is the same thing?
Wonderful idea; I want useless, extraneous, duplicate, triplicate, etc. stuff completely cut out and I want it ASAP!
Weren’t they supposed to build the protype Mr.Fusion appluances?
William Connelly can still edit it?
You think Trump ended up with the sports almanac?
All of my accelerators are instrumental in moving themselves readily about.
Trump musta got some similar foreign model catalog...
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