So why team up with Shell Oil in the ARPA-E forum?
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His death hits Makani hard because its founder is irreplaceable: a Stanford-trained engineer who pushed the edge of design, an able leader who snared funding from Google and the ARPA-E, and a handsome windsurfing champion who knew the power of the wind firsthand.
The original ARPA was started in response to Sputnik.
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Ongoing investments include the creation of ARPA-E, a research agency tasked with promoting cutting-edge energy technologies.
The Department of Education has a great primer on the thinking behind and the plan for ARPA-ED here.
Arun Majumdar, the former director of ARPA-E now at Google, told me in 2008 that The U.S. consumes about 100 quads of energy a year, he said and 55 to 60 of those quads gets burned up in waste heat.
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The French perceive .arpa as controlled by America's Commerce Department, and are pushing for .int instead.
For Arpa, the brand is a marriage of artistry and watch making.
The Sunshot initiative and other key technology innovation programs like the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E), embody the kind of smart innovation policy that holds the promise of fundamentally transforming the economy and ushering in a new era of U.S. technology leadership.
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The agency which would be hardest hit would be the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), which funds both the riskiest and most transformative, early-stage energy innovation projects, and would lose a staggering 75% of its budget under H.
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The funding is coming from Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy ( ARPA-E), which the energy department launched in 2009 and modeled after a Department of Defense program that supports early-stage technology research.
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Republican Lisa Murkowksi, ranking member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, also spoke approvingly of ARPA-E in a speech at the D.
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Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) have all rallied around the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E), hoping to shield it from major budget cuts in the following months.
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Arun Majumdar , who served as the founding director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and Acting Undersecretary of Energy, would be far and away the best choice.
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That includes a doubling of his new ARPA-E initiative and the doubling of the energy innovation hubs.
Representatives from four big sports organizations gave their thoughts on a panel at the annual conference of the Advanced Research Projects-Energy ( ARPA-E) conference outside Washington, D.
This was a topic of a session at the annual conference of the Advanced Research Projects Agency- Energy ( ARPA-E).
But given the strong headwinds against new investments, securing the necessary level of investment for an organization like ARPA-E will be a challenge.
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As a result, EERE is implementing ARPA-E style project management reforms to boost the effectiveness of its investments.
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As customers continue to add multiple devices to accounts following the introduction of the Share Everything Plan in June, Verizon Wireless now reports ARPA instead of ARPU since customers can share data among multiple devices.
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This type of grid-level storage is a priority for the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E, program.
Entities like ARPA-E and Ultra Light Start-Ups serve to increase the velocity of that change, by exposing good ideas to financial backing and experienced management.
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If ARPA-ED does move forward and, after a few years, the Department of Education suggests that the initiative is a success because of the investment it has seeded independent of the success in actual adoption, this will be a sham.
Note to other ARPA-E attendees: please let me know if you hear of outside-the-box energy ideas, or mention them in the comments.
For instance, the DOE is already quietly reforming itself from in by expanding innovative management practices implemented four years ago through ARPA-E.
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