The Lab Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program is one of the principal means at the Lab to seed innovative science and new research directions. As the Lab begins a new LDRD program cycle, Ravi Prasher contemplates how it sparked the success of an idea he had many years ago. https://research.lbl.gov/2021/01/26/the-thermal-energy-group-success-sparked-by-the-ldrd-program/