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Risky energy research faces uncertain future

Nature volume 471, pages 145–146 (2011)Cite this article

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ARPA-E's aggressive approach to managing research wins support — but perhaps not federal dollars.

When the US energy department's new agency for high-risk, high-impact energy research announced a competition for carbon-capture technologies in December 2009, David Sholl decided to take the plunge. Sholl and his colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta had an idea for membranes that make use of a new class of porous crystalline compound to filter carbon dioxide from power-plant exhaust. A month later they had submitted a proposal to the agency, called ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy), and in April 2010 they won a US$1-million, two-year award.

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Tollefson, J. Risky energy research faces uncertain future. Nature 471, 145–146 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471145a

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