http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/10/26/lab-rats-doe-awards-150-million-to-breakthrough-energy-projects/

Remember the Department of Energy’s call for “transformational” technologies that would lead to a breakthrough in energy?  Today, the DOE announced the first group of 37 winners in the $400 million Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program; the first round of funding totals $151 million. The winning projects were winnowed down from the original 3,600 ideas submitted to the Energy Department.  The full list of winners can be found here.  To judge by the recipients, the Department of Energy’s main concern is on transportation.