What’s up at ARPA-E’s TERRA program? — Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture? ARPA-E has released these project overviews for its TERRA Program.
In Washington, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy and the University of Arizona will host a Field Day for the TERRA program, including live demonstrations of crop sensing and analytics platforms that will broadly advance our nation’s energy security, agricultural productivity, crop yields, and environmental stewardship. The event will be held at the University of Arizona’s […]
In Illinois and Florida, researchers from University of Illinois and the University of Florida have been awarded a third round of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to realize ultra-productive biofuel crops. ARPA-E supports initial research for high-potential, high-impact energy technologies to show proof of concept prior to private-sector investment. […]
In Washington, ARPA-E announced that it will invest $30 million in new awards for ROOTS — (Rhizosphere Observations Optimizing Terrestrial Sequestration), aimed at developing new integrated technologies to sequester added carbon in the soil. More roots, goes the theory, equals more carbon stored in the soil, healthier plants that can better withstand drought, and better […]
In Washington, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (Energy) announced a $30 million funding opportunity entitled Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture, or TERRA. ARPA-E is making up to $30 million available for the TERRA program to develop automated, predictive and systems-level approaches to enable the quick and easy identification of traits that can be leveraged […]
As stranded natural gas is poured into the atmosphere by the millions of tons each year — biologists are coming to the rescue with a new class of technologies. They’re designed to convert more “old methane” to higher value fuels and chemicals, and make more “new methane” via high-tech digesters that turn waste into liquid […]
ARPA-E boosts its original projected awards by 70% as it burrows deep into the problem of how to make something insanely great out of stranded methane. Here are the winners, the background and the stakes. In Washington, the US Department of Energy announced that 15 breakthrough energy projects will receive approximately $34 million from the […]
In Massachusetts, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has provided $97 million to 31 projects at Massachusetts companies and universities, more than any other state besides California. The grants assist local companies in commercializing new solar, biofuel and energy storage technologies. The U.S. Congress approved a $275 million budget for ARPA-E, which was reduced to […]
Is the ultimate industrial fuel system going to be based on electricity, waste CO2 and brackish water – to return society to the days of energy abundance? It will take a mighty production microorganism, but R&D is well underway and a path is becoming clearer. In yesterday’s Digest, we explored new research at UCD that […]
Researchers unleash the prospect of fuels from the raging fireball known as Pyrococcus furiosus. Imagine a world where instead of creating CO2 as an emission from burning fuels, you could make fuels from the emissions, the CO2. And could do so in a way that bypasses the production of biomass and the extraction of fermentable […]
