Not every “good” idea that gets submitted to the U.S.’s frontier R&D agencies (DARPA and ARPA-E) gets the gold ring of federal funding. But the DOE/ARPA-E says it has some ideas for providing some nonmonetary assistance for those that didn’t make it into the final funding rounds.Since it was created about two years ago, ARPA-E says the number of proposals for disruptive energy innovations “has been thrilling.” My guess is that DARPA probably has less financial restrictions than ARPA-E, which is tied to a specific budget and, because of more transparency, the agency no doubt will feel political pressure over the next two years to deliver some breakthroughs it can brag about. Regardless, the “thrilling” response combined with budget limitations means that only a fraction of the good ideas really get funding from the project.
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Author: Peter Wray
