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To: TimF who wrote (587883)	9/28/2010 4:37:37 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1574761

I know - that was off the top of my head.

To: TimF who wrote (587883)	9/28/2010 4:58:17 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574761

Here's some of the DOE funding....which projects would you eliminate? "On October 26, 2009, the DOE awarded $151 million in Recovery Act funds for 37 energy research projects. The value of individual awards ranged from $500,000 to $20 million, averaging $4 million, and the awards will have a lifespan of two to three years. Recipients included researchers and inventors in 17 states that are conducting transformational research and development in the areas of solar cells, wind turbines, geothermal drilling, biofuels, and biomass energy crops. The grants also support a variety of energy efficiency technologies, including power electronics and engine-generators for advanced vehicles, devices for waste heat recovery, electrically controlled windows and control systems for smart buildings, light-emitting diodes, reverse-osmosis membranes for water desalination, catalysts to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, improved fuel cell membranes, and more energy-dense magnetic materials for a variety of electronic components. Additional grants went to energy storage technologies, including an ultra-capacitor, improved lithium-ion batteries, metal-air batteries that use ionic liquids, liquid sodium batteries, and liquid metal batteries. Some specific examples of ARPA-E grants include a large-scale liquid metal battery, under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Based on low-cost, domestically available liquid metals, the battery could lead to the mass adoption of large-scale energy storage as part of the nation's energy grid. At the University of Minnesota, researchers have developed a bioreactor that has the potential to produce gasoline directly from sunlight and carbon dioxide using a symbiotic system of two organisms. In addition, Momentive Performance Materials will be investigating a novel crystal growth technology to lower the cost of light emitting diodes, which are 30 times more efficient than incandescent bulbs and four times more efficient than compact fluorescents.