Workshop on Energy Manufacturing; Arlington, Virginia; March 24-25, 2009

该奖项为举办能源制造研讨会提供支持。 其目的是聚集一个多学科专家组，探讨和确定将新能源转化为石油替代品所需的制造业研究挑战。 本次研讨会的重点是评估各种能源制造方法的可行性和近期可行性，并提出一个议程，研究制造技术，将加速出现更有前途的方法。 本次研讨会的好处将包括确定制造研究问题之间的新联系，这些问题将在扩大能源制造的背景下考虑。 预计这些挑战将激发关于如何组织制造业以及如何提供液体燃料的新想法。 美国的制造业将受益于该研讨会，该行业是美国经济的重要组成部分。 提供新的能源基础设施是制造业为其能力开发新市场的重要机会。 因此，重要的是要确定制造技术中可以通过基础研究弥合的差距。

This award provides support to conduct a workshop on energy manufacturing. The objective of which is to gather a multi-disciplinary group of experts to explore and define the research challenges in manufacturing required to translate new sources of energy into petroleum substitutes. The focus of this workshop is to assess the feasibility and near-term viability of various energy manufacturing approaches, and to set forth an agenda for research on manufacturing technologies that will accelerate the emergence of the more promising approaches. The benefits of this workshop will include defining new connections between manufacturing research problems that will arise as a result of considering them in the context of scaling up energy manufacturing. It is expected that the challenges will stimulate new ideas about how manufacturing could be organized, and how liquid fuels could be delivered. The United States manufacturing industry will benefit from this workshop, and this industry is a vital component of the United States economy. Delivering new energy infrastructure is a significant opportunity for the manufacturing industry to develop a new market for its capabilities. Therefore it is important to identify the gaps in manufacturing technologies that could be bridged by fundamental research.