If they bring a knife, you bring a million bucks.

Energy Secretary Chu is giving piles of taxpayer money to researchers at his old lab:

The Department of Energy will pay $30 million over five years to two professors at the University of California, Berkeley, for research on cleaning up power plant pollution.
Professors Berend Smit and Donald DePaolo will get $2 million and $4 million a year, respectively, to seek better ways to clean carbon out of the emissions from power plants and natural gas wells and to put it underground.
This “carbon capture and sequestration” technology will keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, where it is believed to add to global warming.
Smit is a chemist and DePaolo is a geologist and head of the Earth Sciences unit at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the hill above U.C. Berkeley’s campus. . . .
Steven Chu, Obama’s energy secretary, was the director of Lawrence Berkeley Lab before being tapped for the DOE post.