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Stirling
Energy Systems utility solar - 20-year purchase agreement between
Southern California Edison and Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. will result in
20,000+ dish array covering 4,500 acres capable of generating 500 MW, at a
cost competitive to grid power. (http://stirlingenergy.com)
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Engines
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Cyclone
Technologies Schoell Cycle Engine - The Cyclone Engine is designed
around the principles of an external combustion engine, to efficiently use
any liquid or gaseous fuel and create more power and significantly less
emissions than current gasoline or diesel powered internal combustion
engines. (http://cyclonepower.com)
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Validated | Directory:Hydrogen
from Water / Solar
Hydrogen / Waste
to Energy >
Solar
Hydrogen Energy Corporation (SHEC) - Has developed a process that
will convert landfill and other waste methane into clean hydrogen, using the
power of the Sun for the reformation, at a price comparable to traditional
hydrogen production methods. (http://www.shec-labs.com/)
(NEC Specialist: Tai
Robinson)
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Geothermal
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Raser
is Rapidly Deploying Cost-Effective Geothermal Power - Instead of
using electricity to turn a heat pump to cool a liquid, Raser runs a warmed
liquid through a heat pump to generate electricity. With their rapid,
low-cost deployment capability, they could maximize the U.S. geothermal
capacity within ten years. (http://rasertech.com)
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Directory:Nuclear
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Colliding
Plasma Toroid Fusion - Electron Power Systems Ltd. is developing a
process that remains stable without magnetic confinement, by using
background gas pressure for confinement instead, could provide clean,
non-polluting energy technology at one-tenth the cost of present energy
generation. (http://electronpowersystems.com)
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Directory:Batteries
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Nanotube
Super Capacitor Battery - MIT researchers are developing a battery
based on capacitors that utilize nanotubes for high surface area, enabling
near instantaneous charging and no degradation. Estimating ~5 years to
commercialization.
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Nanotech
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Film Solar >
Nanosolar
a leader in the drive to make solar affordable - Nanosolar has
developed proprietary technology that makes it possible to simply roll-print
solar cells with performance and durability similar to silicon-wafer cells,
while cutting the costs, making solar affordable. The long-term limitation
will be the growing scarcity of Indium. (http://nanosolar.com)
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Directory:Nuclear
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Focus
Fusion - Purports to be a far more feasible and profoundly less
expensive approach to hot fusion, in contrast to ITER. Lawrenceville Plasma
Physics' is developing the Plasma Focus Device for hydrogen-boron nuclear
fusion. 4-7 years to commercial. 1 cent / kWh anticipated energy generation
cost. (http://www.focusfusion.org)
(NEC Specialists: Thomas
Valone)
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Enviromission
Solar Tower - Enviromission Solar Towers are like an inverted
funnel, with a wide skirt to collect air to then turn a turbine in the
tower. (http://www.enviromission.com.au/)
(http://www.solarmissiontechnologies.com)
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Engines
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Quasiturbine
Engine - This four-chamber Wankel-like engine is capable of burning
fuel using photo-detonation, an optimal combustion type. The design can also
be used as an air motor, steam engine, gas compressor, hot air engine, or
pump. (http://quasiturbine.com)
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Directory:Solar
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International
Automated Systems - Utility scale solar presently in process of
being commercially installed for first time; alleged to produce electricity
at 3-5 cents per kilowatt-hour. Highly-efficient bladeless turbine has wide
range of waste-heat-harnessing applications. Methanol production technique
will draw CO2 out of the environment, reversing global warming. (http://IAUS.com)
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Thermal
Electric / Solar
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Johnson
Electro Mechanical Systems - Thermal energy system invented by the
person who came up with the Super Soaker can achieve a conversion efficiency
rate that tops 60 percent with a new solid-state heat engine. It uses
temperature differences to create pressure gradients that are used to force
ions through a membrane, instead of moving an axle or wheel. Inventor has
also come up with an ambient energy conversion system as well as an electric
heat pump.
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Waste-to-Energy
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Fuels > Diesel
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CPD
Process Turns Trash into Diesel Fuel - Green Power Inc has developed
a catalytic pressureless depolymerization (CPD) process they call "NanoDiesel"
that inexpensively converts biomass and municipal waste into high quality
diesel fuel, which could solve the world's energy and waste problems at the
same time, without upsetting the CO2 balance.
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StarTech
Environmental Corp Plasma Tech - Startech is the only publicly
traded waste-to-energy plasma arc technology company in the world. They
presently have three 5 ton/day installations in operation, with a number of
other plants in various stages of implementation. A 200 ton/day plant being
scheduled for Panama will be the largest such plant in the world. (http://www.startech.net)
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Solar
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RSI's
Solar Silicon Solution Wins MIT Energy Plan Contest - RSI Silicon
debuts a far more inexpensive method of producing solar grade Silicon,
winning "People's Choice" award and first place in the Energy
Business Plan contest held by MIT. (NEC Specialist: Jim
Dunn)
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Concentrated
Solar / Stirling
Engines >
Infinia
Corp's Stirling Solar Technology - Infinia's solar technology
entails a parabolic dish that focuses the sun's energy onto their stirling
engine that uses helium in a hermetically sealed system, requiring no
lubrication inside the machine, nor maintenance.
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Directory:Solar
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Johanna
Solar Technology thin film solar eclipses others - South African
solar panels consist of a thin layer approximately five microns thick (a
human hair is 20 microns thick) of a unique metal alloy that converts light
into energy at a fraction of the cost. The photo-responsive alloy can
operate on virtually all flexible surfaces. Expected in market in 2007. (http://www.johanna-solar.com/)
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Solar
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Cool
Earth Solar - Company has developed an inflatable solar concentrator
technology that slashes materials costs, making solar farms competitive with
commercial electricity generation systems within three years. (http://www.coolearthsolar.com)
(NEC Specialist: Jon
Bonanno, investor, board member)
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Solar
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Electric / Nanotech
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Advanced
Diamond Solutions' amorphous nanostructures - Semiconductor industry
company serendipitously developed thermionic solar cells using amorphous
diamond nanostructures that offer potential efficiencies of 50% at half the
cost of silicon solar cells. Also has good promise as a thermal electric
generator. (http://www.advanceddiamond.com)
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Directory:Storage
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EEStor
Ceramic "Battery" - Texas company is working on an
"energy storage" ultra-capacitor device made from ceramics. It's
not technically a battery because it doesn't use chemicals. It can allegedly
charge within 5 minutes (from a substation) with enough energy to move a car
500 miles on about $9 worth of electricity -- about 45 cents a gallon.
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