ARPA-E

Wouldn’t it be cool if the heat your car’s engine emits could be captured and converted into energy to power your stereo or air conditioning? Well, that day is coming.

Algae is one of the most promising components for the development of sustainable biofuels. A current stumbling block for algae as a fuel feedstock is it can be expensive and time-consuming to harvest.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to invest up to $366 million to establish and operate three new Energy Innovation Hubs focused on accelerating research and development in three key energy areas.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a recently formed branch of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is dispensing $151 million to thirty-seven projects that could very well change the way energy is used and produced in the United States.