The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Project Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) funding program for "moonshot" green technologies has brought attention to companies working on everything from cryogenic carbon capture to kites outfitted with wind turbines. Apparently, all that attention and seed money from the government has triggered a wave of private investment.
According to the DOE, six projects that took in $23.6 million in seed funding from ARPA-E generated over $100 million in private capital investment over the past year. The projects highlighted by the DOE aren't necessarily "moonshot" technologies, but they are ambitious.
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