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The Department of Energy is going to open its doors to Silicon Valley in hopes of turning some of its research projects into commercial projects.
Under the entrepreneur-in-residence program, announced Tuesday, the Department of Energy will invite executives to set up shop inside of select labs to assess different technologies and their commercial viability.
‘They will have unfettered access to our taxpayer-funded technologies in our national labs,’ Alexander Karsner, assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy at the Department of Energy, said to an audience at the Dow Jones Alternative Energy Innovations Conference taking place this week in Redwood City, Calif. Karsner also spoke with reporters separately after his speech.
The program exists in part to help spur the alternative energy economy. The Bush administration, Karsner said, is very interested in promoting low-carbon and carbon-free alternatives to fossil fuels…
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