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Steven Chu got drawn into the Solyndra thing because the scientific results were significant.

I beg to differ. Solyndra only made sense if the economics worked (i.e., funny-shaped PV cells which made the panels' output less sensitive to positioning relative to the sun; this required a business plan which was economically based and took into account production costs and potential competition). I think Chu was lacking in his ability to evaluate the economics, and influenced by the belief and hope in all that was "green." Hence he was easily manipulated and misled by being presented a biased sample of research options--those associated primarily with Obama cronies.

I have a strong opinion on Chu, but I don't have one at all on Kullander. Hence, your rather lecturing comment to me that "I have discovered" something about my parallel, apparently elicited by your Socratic dialog with me isn't called for.

I beg to differ. Solyndra only made sense if the economics worked
***It did work. What it did not foresee was how fast the Chinese would catch up as competition, AFAIK.

(i.e., funny-shaped PV cells which made the panels’ output less sensitive to positioning relative to the sun; this required a business plan which was economically based and took into account production costs and potential competition).
***I’m not too current on Solyndra, I’ll take your word for it.

I think Chu was lacking in his ability to evaluate the economics, and influenced by the belief and hope in all that was “green.” Hence he was easily manipulated and misled by being presented a biased sample of research options—those associated primarily with Obama cronies.
***So, somehow this roundabout explanation may be a proper parallel with LENR and Kullander, but not Levi and Focardi and anyone who’s familiar with LENR results before Rossi came along.

I have a strong opinion on Chu, but I don’t have one at all on Kullander. Hence, your rather lecturing comment to me that “I have discovered” something about my parallel, apparently elicited by your Socratic dialog with me isn’t called for.
***You are the one calling up the parallel. Where it works, we use it. Where it doesn’t work, we toss it.

Chu spent most of his adult life in an environment where every graduate student who worked for him was putting his or her life's career on the line with every report on every experiment or other assigned task.

I don't think he had the slightest idea of how Department of Energy works. The only worse appointee there was that lady Bill Clinton put in charge. She got all upset about the "color coded" passes in use at the DOE secure sites so she had them abolished. She didn't believe in "discrimination based on color".

As my old carpool buddy used to say about DOE (his employer was just down the street from USPS where I worked) "It is full of political scientists". So now we know what that meant.