We used to lead in this type of advancing, certainly not racing to catch up with others who back then were far behind us and our economy, and if these advances had started years back we'd be leading the World still!
April 15, 2011 - In his 2011 State of the Union address, President Obama challenged Americans to “win the future” by out innovating the rest of the world. Yesterday, the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) agreed to partner with Duke Energy and the Electric Energy Power Research Institute (EPRI) to test cutting-edge technologies that could strengthen the nation’s electric grid. This partnership sends a clear signal that the Department of Energy is stepping up to the plate to deliver on the President’s challenge.
ARPA-E will work with Duke Energy and EPRI to take government-funded technologies out of the lab and into the real world for testing and possible deployment. More specifically, the goal is to pinpoint opportunities to enhance smart grid development, grid scale energy storage, power electronics, and energy efficient cooling systems and to begin to apply these technologies in the marketplace. As ARPA-E Director Arun Majumdar said, the agreement will serve as the “connective tissue” between research and application. {continued}
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