The US Dept. of Energy has beaten Bill Gates and Elon Musk to the holy grail.

Wow, so much detail on the technology side of things.

I'm gonna say 99% chance of this being complete and utter bullshite.

ETA: Also, the accomplishments they're claiming are so incredibly vague that they don't mean anything.

Don't spare any expenses.

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Arpa-E was founded in 2009 under Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan to fund early stage research into the generation and storage of energy.

Such projects, or so-called moonshots, were widely seen as too risky for regular investors, but – if they succeed – could potentially be game-changing.

Many of the projects fostered by the agency were already in sight of getting funding, Williams said. Several have now secured private sector follow-on funding. Others are being taken up by the State Department or the Pentagon, she said.

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Yeah, it's bullshite.

Hydrogen fuel cells or gtfo

Was hoping to read examples of how things will be different. Even as simple as "new batteries will last 10x longer". None.

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Would you care to give three more innovations that our government has accomplished without the help of private help?

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There's this wonderful thing called Google... search for NASA's innovations to start.

No tech specs
No specifics
No mention of what it actually is
Immediate bashing of Elon Musk

Musk staaaaacked
Government fuuuuuucked

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Part of the reason NASA is such a great agency is precisely because of how many private contracts and companies they are involved with

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This. Boeing and NASA. Do some research.

ETA: Also, I re-read that article and it gave no cost associated to this find. It points out how much private industry has committed but never gave the governments figures.

I wish people like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Manoj Bhargava were the type of people willing to run the country. Get all the old dumb fricks out of office and let smart people take control.

How amazing that this is coming out right before election time! Must be a coincidence, like when the site you linked bought voters registration lists in 2004 and paid people to write letters and make phone calls to people on the list telling them how horrible of a president that W was. I'm sure there is no bias and the timing of the article has no political bias at all.