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Do we know why it is the Department of Energy that works on that? I would have expected a branch of government that's more related to health, granted, I know ve
by barbazoo 4y ago
Do we know why it is the Department of Energy that works on that? I would have expected a branch of government that's more related to health, granted, I know very little about US gvmt structure.
- mort96 4y agoI don't know the answer to your question, but the DoE does a lot more than just energy. In addition to overseeing energy policy, they oversee the R&D of nuclear weapons and the nuclear weapons program, they oversee the National Laboratories which does a lot of research and development in the areas of technology, health, physics, climate/environment and energy, they started the Human Genome Project, etc. Here's their overview of some of the stuff their National Laboratories have done: https://www.energy.gov/articles/75-breakthroughs-americas-national-laboratories-0 https://www.energy.gov/articles/75-breakthroughs-americas-na...
- midoridensha 4y agoIt sounds like they need to rename themselves. Perhaps "Department of Science"?
- starkparker 4y agoThere's a reason why DoE's used as the "villain" agency in Stranger Things, enough so that DoE commented[1] on it. 1: https://www.energy.gov/articles/what-stranger-things-didnt-get-quite-so-right-about-energy-department https://www.energy.gov/articles/what-stranger-things-didnt-g...