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ARPA-E Turns To Innocentive
by Melody M. Bomgardner
January 13, 2014
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 92, Issue 2
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has turned to the innovation crowdsourcing website InnoCentive to help solve a nagging measurement problem in live plants. ARPA-E is funding projects to develop nonfood crops with double the energy content of corn kernels. But measuring the energy content of plants is laborious because it requires cutting, drying, and burning samples. So ARPA-E is offering awards of between $5,000 and $30,000 for methods that would measure the quantity of energy-rich molecules in a plant without killing the specimen. Written proposals are due by Feb. 21.
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