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Funding the Fantastic

Posted by: Tim Halbur

3 November 2009 - 11:00am

The Feds have given the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) $151 million to look at some highly unusual ways of creating energy. Are they so crazy they just might work -- or just plain crazy?

37 projects are slated for funding through ARPA-E, including a new all-metal battery and a proposal to harvest waste heat from vehicles.

"In its own words, "ARPA-E's mission is to develop nimble, creative and inventive approaches to transform the global energy landscape while advancing America’s technology leadership."

ARPA-E is modeled on the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), the agency that helped develop technologies like the stealth fighter, the M16 assault rifle, and the Internet, among other transformative ideas."

Full Story: ARPA-E – are its energy projects crazy or revolutionary?
Source: The Christian Science Monitor, November 2, 2009
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