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1 Awards
2 Challenges
3 Grants
4 Prizes
5 See also
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Awards

  • European Energy Service Award 2008 (http://www.reeep.org/57.10457/european-energy-service-award-2008.htm) - The European Energy Service Initiative (http://www.energy-service-initiative.net/front_content.php?idcat=1&PHPSESSID=e1eee8a958155c26d6959d835d537e49) was developed and launched in 2005 to provide a promotional platform for energy services in Europe. Its principal aim is to increase awareness on the options and opportunities of energy services especially for energy efficiency, by showing its successes and to motivate others. The European Energy Service Award is part of this initiative and helps bring energy services into the centre of attention. (REEEP (http://www.reeep.org/57.10457/european-energy-service-award-2008.htm); August 5, 2008)
  • Euromoney and Ernst & Young Global Renewable Energy Awards (http://www.euromoneyenergy.com/default.asp?Page=11&eventid=ECK501&site=energy)- The Euromoney and Ernst & Young Global Renewable Energy Awards were established to recognise the projects, companies and individuals who have made a significant contribution to the renewable energy sector.
  • Shell Global Eco-Marathon (http://www.shell.com/home/Framework?siteId=eco-marathon-en&FC2=/eco-marathon-en/html/iwgen/leftnavs/zzz_lhn1_0_0.html&FC3=/eco-marathon-en/html/iwgen/welcome_global.html) - The Shell Eco-marathon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-marathon) is an annual educational project that integrates the sustainable development values with driving as far as possible using the least amount of energy.
    • Fuel Efficient Vehicles > At Eco-marathon, teen driving team races to 2,843 mpg (http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9918198-54.html?tag=cd.blog) - The team from Mater Dei High School might be only months (or less) removed from driver's ed, but it pulled off a nifty feat of driving over the weekend. One of its entries in the Shell Eco-marathon Americas won the $10,000 USD grand prize for motoring to a record 2,843.4 miles per gallon. (CNet News; April 14, 2008)
  • Sustainability Awards (http://www.afs.nonprofitoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B28813944-7330-457A-B9CC-478A18602BB0%7D) - provides the Twin Cities (Minnesota) and the nation with the opportunity to recognize individuals, groups, and institutions that have been exemplary leaders and made significant contributions to sustainability—creating a world that is ecologically sound, economically viable, socially just and humane.
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Challenges

  • Centennial Challenges (http://centennialchallenges.nasa.gov/) - The NASA Centennial Challenges program also recognizes that the rapid and dramatic progress in aeronautics in the early years of the first century of flight was often driven by prize competitions. The General Aviation Technology Challenge is one of seven current NASA technology prize competitions with total purse of $300,000 for 7 areas for most green, least noise, safest run by the CAFE Foundation (http://cafefoundation.org/v2/main_home.php). (NASA' (http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jul/HQ_08188_General_Aviation_Challenge.html)'; July 28, 2008)
  • Solar Powered Car Directory (http://www.speedace.info/solar_car_directory.htm) - Solar powered car racing events continue to gain in popularity the world over judging from the number of world class teams listed. Racing improves the breed and this is no exception. Most of the development of solar racers is undertaken by university teams.
  • The Frisian Solar Challenge (http://www.frisiansolarchallenge.nl/eng/page.php?nodeId=98) - A sunny variation of the legendary Eleven Cities Skating Race (Elfstedentocht), 48 Dutch and international teams will navigate the Frisian waterways over a distance of almost 200 kilometres, past eleven Frisian cities, in custom-designed and built solar-powered boats from June 22 - June 28, 2008.
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Grants

  • $50 million in clean diesel grants up for grabs from EPA (http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/04/06/50-million-in-clean-diesel-grants-up-for-grabs-from-epa/) - That's the amount that the EPA announced (http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/dc57b08b5acd42bc852573c90044a9c4/9cdf7d0a360a15c58525741f005517bc!OpenDocument) it will spend on clean diesel research, especially on "school or transit buses, medium and heavy-duty trucks, marine engines, locomotives and nonroad engines." (AutoBlog Green; April 6, 2008)
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Prizes

  • Loris Hemlof Prize (http://www.loris-hemlof.com/) - For "Best Free Energy Inventor". Recipients must have a PayPal account and provide public proof of free energy and/or anti-gravity.

Winners. Please use PAYPAL to make a donation go to PAYPAL (https://www.paypal.com/)
The John R. R. Searl [Searl Effect Technology] PayPal account identifier is; searlsolution@hotmail.com
To make a donation to the 2008 Loris Hemlof prize for best free energy inventor Loris Hemlof's PayPal account identifier is;lekh@bigpond.com (he gets 5%.)

  • American Express Members Project 2008 (http://membersproject.com/files/toolkit.pdf) - PDF. Starting 7/22/08, submitting your ideas for projects through the American Express Credit Card system could change our world. Voting begins 9/9/08. AMEX card members decide which projects get funding. On 10/14/08, American Express funds the winning projects with $2.5 million.
  • Millennium Promise (http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions/13) - The campaign message should educate the general public about the main objective of the MDGs: to improve the lives of the world’s poorest. The overall message should be clear, compelling and empowering – ultimately, this is a call to action to inspire people to join the global fight to end poverty. Entry deadline Tuesday June 17 2008 at 6:00pm UTC (Universal Coordinated Time) Total prize money of $10,000 will be allocated as follows: $5,000 to the Overall Winner, $5000 divided between multiple prizes: DESIGN 21 Judge’s Picks and Most Popular.
  • Dept of Energy L Prize Competition (http://www.lightingprize.org/overview.stm) - Companies that produce a suitable solid-state replacement for the common 60 watt incandescent bulb and the PAR 38 halogen bulb will receive up to $20 million in cash and much more importantly, federal government procurement opportunities. (Slashdot' (http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/30/0259211&from=rss)'; May 30, 2008)
Alex Salmond
Alex Salmond
  • The Saltire Prize (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/Energy/saltire-prize) - The Scottish Government has created the opportunity to award one of the biggest international innovation prizes in history through its plans for the Saltire Prize - a £10 million ($20 million) challenge prize for advances in clean energy. Details to be released November 30, 2008 on St. Andrew's Day at Edinburgh Castle. (April 3, 2008)
  • ConocoPhillips Energy Prize entry deadline looms (http://www.conocophillips.com/Tech/energyprize/index.htm) - May 30, 2008 is the deadline for applying to be considered by the joint initiative by ConocoPhillips and Penn State, which is "designed to recognize new ideas and original, actionable solutions that can help improve the way the United States develops and uses energy."
  • ConocoPhillips, Penn State partner on nationwide energy prize program (http://www.energy.psu.edu/) - The program will award up to $300,000 in cash prizes through the EMS Energy Institute (http://www.energy.psu.edu/) and focus on generating innovative ideas and solutions that help in three areas; developing new energy sources, including new ways to develop alternative energy, improving energy efficiency, such as new methods to significantly reduce the amount of energy consumed in the United States, climate change, including solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Contest Rules (http://www.conocophillips.com/Tech/energyprize/Rules/index.htm) (March 31, 2008)


  • Ignite Clean Energy Competition (http://www.ignitecleanenergy.com/ice-2008) - $125,000 USD are at stake. To spur entrepreneurial activities, the Energy SIG2 of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize (CEEP) and the MIT 100K Energy Track have combined forces to offer a business presentation competition. (ICE; 2008)
  • Advanced Energy Research Organization (AERO) (http://pesn.com/2007/11/02/9500455_AERO_Award/) - Steven Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project, is a leading expert on UFO suppression and associated advanced, clean energy technology sequestration. AERO was established to protect and launch a revolutionary energy technology that meets the screening criteria of 'self-running with at least 1 kW of usable electricity.' (PESN; Nov. 11, 2007)
  • Broadcast Your Non-Profit Cause (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/10/broadcast_your_cause.php) - YouTube has pledged $20 million over two years to launch the YouTube Non-Profit Program, an initiative to encourage non-profit organizations to design and create "brand channels" to build communities, while raising awareness for their cause. (TreeHugger; Oct. 4, 2007)
  • Three-Millionth Visit to FreeEnergyNews.com Home Page Today (http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/Awards/PES/3_Million_FEN/index.html) - We will be giving away a prize to the two people who come closest to being the 3,000,000th visitor to our home page. Last year, the competition was stiff. Read some of our company highlights from the past year. (FreeEnergyNews; Sept. 14. 2007)
  • Scientists to Vie for $25M Climate Prize (http://www.virginearth.com/) - British tycoon Sir Richard Branson has announced The Virgin Earth Challenge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Earth_Challenge), which is a $25 million global science and technology prize that will be awarded to an individual or a group who can demonstrate a design to reduce atmospheric pollution and contribute to the stability of the earth's climate. (PhysOrg; Feb. 9, 2007)
Stefan Hartmann
Stefan Hartmann
  • Overunity.com's Prize Cache Growing (http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,2157.0.html) - Forum moderator, Stefan Hartmann began the initiative in March, 2007, putting $1,000 from ad revenue into a kitty, which has now grown to $3,500 Euros; to be award to the first person to satisfy the contest stipulations, which include a willingness to open source the technology. (Overunity.com)
  • The Next X-Prize: Rethinking the Automobile - X Prize's founder, Peter Diamandis, wants the next prize to include the task of solving some of the world's transportation problems. "Why do we still drive cars that use an internal combustion engine and only get 30 miles per gallon?" (TreeHugger; Feb. 1, 2006)
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