Greetings, As with any expected senior level resignation, a "short-list" of candidates already exists, plus a list of outliers who have been recommended by respected people outside the administration. The outgoing Secretary may also have made a recommendation or two.
The first step is to figure out who is on the short list, then see if anyone who is an effective spokeperson for the LENR community has a connection and access to people on the short list. This could be direct acquaintance, or through organisations that people on the short-list belong to. But the key thing is to have a refined, succinct, and effective message to deliver regarding LENR. At this point, I have not seen any public statement about LENR that would meet this need, so perhaps this is something to work on in parallel with figuring out who to deliver the statement to, and with whom to engage in discussion beyond that first contact. Any candidate for Secretary will be looking for promising ideas, and will have unofficially begun to assemble his/her team that will move into the Department of Energy when the new nominee is confirmed. I think this statement on LENR would be fairly easy to produce. This initiative has to be carried out at a professional level, for there are many others who will be trying to do the same thing regarding their own areas of interest. Cheers, Lawry de Bivort On Feb 3, 2013, at 4:23 AM, Peter Gluck wrote: > See please e.g.: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/energy-secretary-steven-chu-resigns/2013/02/01/9809fd8a-6c8f-11e2-8f4f-2abd96162ba8_story.html > > Our LENR/HHENI community has to rethink and define its > strategy, we have to evolve from being an unanswered question > to be a Part of the Solution. We have to focus...on what? > Peter > -- > Dr. Peter Gluck > Cluj, Romania > http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
