Solyndra Critics Back U.S. Lab Seeking Biofuel From Germs
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People attending a Washington event this week may witness something almost unheard of in political circles: Republicans praising a clean-energy program supported by President Barack Obama.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency -- Energy, originally funded through the 2009 economic stimulus program, is holding its annual summit to showcase its awardees, who collectively have won about $770 million in government money in the past 3 1/2 years. The projects include efforts to develop a “flow battery” to store energy, to improve the efficiency of the electric grid, and to modify an E. coli strain that can produce biofuels.