And the Winner Is... | Green Energy News

April 24, 2005 – Vol.10 No.5

AND THE WINNER IS:

Microbial Scale Solutions for an environmentally sensitive technology to overcome the pollution and energy problems of mineral scale formation in industrial water systems.

The competition was the Clean Energy Business Contest initiated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Enterprise Forum’s Energy Group. The contest was designed to encourage innovative solutions and investment in the Massachusetts clean energy sector.

Students as well as organizations and companies were all invited to compete for a combined $125k in prizes.

Here’s a sample of the winners...

--- Advanced Conductors, a student team that offered equipment and processes for its coating technology that will enable gains in the efficiency, lifetime, and production cost of new energy-saving devices including organic LEDs for general lighting, flexible displays, plastic solar cells, and electrochromic films for dynamically tinting glass.

--- Rentricity, a professional team, focused on transforming untapped energy in various man-made processes into electricity such as the surplus power contained within pipes where gases, liquids, or solids exert extra pressure.

--- NatEl, a renewable energy company that develops large, profitable, low-head hydropower projects, offered its Linear HydroEngine technology. NatEl projects generate power at low dams, such as river locks or tidal dikes, where conventional turbine technologies cannot cost-effectively compete.

Initially there were 40 entrants, 9 of which became winners of cash prizes and/or rent-free office space for up to a year. For the full listing of winners and descriptions of their technologies visit the MIT event at http://www.ignitecleanenergy.com/ .