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Jigar Shah on the DOE's Role In Accelerating The Energy Transition

Odd Lots

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How Do You Judge a New Idea Over Another?

The Department of Energy has ten thousand engineer, scientists and experts who work on its platform at extraordinary natural laboratories across the country. There is not a single new idea that we ever get pitched right? That idea is new to the market place, but the person who invented the patent probably works at one of our national amps and did it 27 years earlier. The technology part of it doesn't scare us, ause we've got all these experts on the platform. But if they qualify for the loan programs office, and they can get through the gauntlet, then we'll give them a loan. It's about putting the first and second and third projects out the door, and then they're going

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