First-of-its-Kind Clean
Energy Impact Fund to Connect Top Researchers With Philanthropists
In an effort to bolster
the nation's clean energy future,
several researchers and centers at
UC San Diego have been selected,
along with other top innovators around the nation, to participate in a first-time Clean Energy Impact Fund.
The fund – created by Benefunder, which is
building the first marketplace for research funding – is a unique
philanthropic-based initiative designed to spark a passionate appeal to donors
who want to have a direct impact on solving some of our nation’s biggest energy
issues.
The
Clean Energy Impact Fund will focus on advancing all areas of clean energy,
including basic and applied research, with an emphasis on commercializing new
methods and technologies. Benefunder’s clean energy innovators includes 40
researchers from some of the top research institutions in the country,
including Harvard, Duke, UC San Diego, Cornell, The University of Texas at
Austin, Rice, and Georgia Tech. These
innovators are working on new breakthroughs in power production, storage, and
delivery, as well as policy. Research efforts include printable solar cells, global water purification, algae biofuel technology, improved battery storage technology, powerful electric vehicles, and more.
UC San
Diego researcher and centers involved in Benefunder’s Clean Energy Impact Fund
include:
Darren Lipomi
Here's a video on one of Lipomi's research projects:
Carlos Coimbra
California Center for Algae Biotechnology
Here's a video on one of Lipomi's research projects:
Wrapped in Solar Blankets
Can a blanket generate clean energy? Darren Lipomi, a nanoengineer at UC San Diego thinks so. Check out how he is pioneering the discovery of ultra-low-cost solar technologies. #cleantech
Posted by Benefunder Clean Energy Impact Fund on Monday, October 19, 2015
California Center for Algae Biotechnology
Benefunder
hopes to create the nation’s largest Clean Energy Impact Fund. Benefunder’s
strategy is to diversify resources to a wide range of top clean energy
research – from renewable energy technologies to energy efficiency, and
infrastructure and resources – with equal periodic distributions to all
researchers in the fund, in exchange for regular research updates to donors.
Donors can make any contribution amount to the fund. Funds will be distributed
to researchers on a quarterly basis. As research results in new company
formation and intellectual property, the fund will provide investment and other
opportunities.
“By shifting the traditional expensive and time-consuming grant funding model,
Benefunder is putting more resources in the hands of innovators,” said
Benefunder Cofounder and CEO Christian Braemer. “Our nation’s academic research
institutions are one of our most important infrastructures. Increasing funding
in the clean energy space is one of the wisest investments we can all make, and
Benefunder is here to make it easy, fun, and efficient, while allowing donors
to make a deeper impact for current and future generations.”
More information about Benefunder at www.benefunder.org.
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