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Since April, 2006, the New Energy Congress has been systematically voting on the following energy technologies, reviewing a new technology every few days, and weighing it against the criteria they established. Last update - May 18, 2008.
- Validated | Available for Commercial Purchase | Directory:Solar >
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)
- Nanotech / Thin 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)
- Directory:Storage > Directory:Batteries >
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.
- Validated | Available for Commercial Purchase | Directory:Wind >
Wind Farms - Wind farms present an economy of scale, enabling them to produce electricity in the price range of grid power.
- Directory:Batteries >
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.
- Plasma / Waste to Energy / Engines >
W2 Energy Birthing Affordable, Renewable Petrol - Imagine a gasoline and diesel source that is CO2 neutral, sulfur-free, derived from renewable sources, superior in its power performance to fossil-based fuels, and costs less than 1/7 of fossil-based fuels. The company has also built an engine to optimize use of the syngas portion of the product. (http://www.w2energy.com)
- Available for Purchase | Directory:Concentrated Solar Power >
SolarCube™ by Green and Gold Energy - Award-winning solar technology uses Fresnel lenses to focus sun's energy onto photovoltaic cells. 5.8 cents per kWh. (http://www.greenandgoldenergy.com.au) (NEC Specialist: Richard P. George)
- Solar > Concentrated >
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)
- Directory:Solar >
DayStar Technologies' Silicon-Free Solar Cells - Daystar's unique metal foil design is not vulnerable to silicon shortages. Striving to "make free energy affordable", production of this thin film design is being ramped up to 20 MW per year. (http://www.daystartech.com/)
- Directory:Nuclear >
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)
- Directory:Solar >
SA 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.
- Directory:Solar >
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)
- Directory:Nuclear >
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)
- 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)
- Validated | Directory:Solar >
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)
- Validated | Available for Commercial Purchase | Waste-to-Energy / Plasma >
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)
- Solar > Thin Film >
AVA Solar to Mass Produce Low Cost Solar Panels - AVA Solar will start production next year on cadmium telluride thin film solar PV modules developed at Colorado State University. Produced at less than $1 per watt, the panels will reduce the cost of generating solar electricity to roughly the same as the conventional grid.
- Solar / Thermal Electric / Nanotech >
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)
- Directory:Fusion >
Energy/Matter Conversion Corporation - Dr. Bussard and his team at Energy/Matter Conversion Corporation, after close to 20 years of hard work, have developed a revolutionary radiation-free fusion process that takes boron-11 and fuses a proton to it, producing, in its excited state, a carbon-12 atom. This excited carbon-12 atom decays to beryllium-8 and helium-4. It was developed under a DOD contract and has recently been made public.
- Waste to Energy / Plastic >
Global Resource Corp:High-Frequency Attenuating Wave Kinetics or HAWK Microwave Turns Carbon Items into Oil and Gas - Frank Pringle of Global Resource Corp (GRC) has invented and refined an efficient microwave energy process to turn plastics, discarded tires, and other carbon-based substances such as shale, coal, and tar sands into gas and oil.
Top 100 -- Complete List
See Congress:Top 100:Complete List - the whole Top 100 Energy Technologies listing.
Recently Added
- Water as Fuel / Hydrogen >
Genepax water fuel system - Genepax intends to provide 1kw-class generation systems for use in electric vehicles and houses. Instead of driving electric vehicles with this system alone, the company expects to use it as a generator to charge the secondary battery used in electric vehicles. (http://www.genepax.co.jp/en/)
- River / Tide / Ocean Current / Water >
Bourne Energy Harnesses Flowing Water to Make Clean Water - Bourne’s Kinetic Energy Systems entail floating turbines for river, tidal and ocean currents, and have numerous environmental advantages over conventional hydropower dams, Run-of-River and other hydropower systems. The latest is in developing potable water. (http://bourneenergy.com)
- Waste to Energy > Refinery Flaring Recovery >
Capstone Microturbines help save waste - Have you ever driven past a refinery and seen the large flare towers and thought, "Why don't they harness that energy?" Capstone's microturbines are ideally suited for that task, among other applications. (http://www.capstoneturbine.com)
- Thermal Electric / Thermoacoustics >
Fellows' Thermoacoustic Cycle (TAC) Generator - Texas inventor's technology uses heat to amplify acoustic waves (sound waves) in a high pressure gas, which drive a linear generator and produce electric power. The system can allegedly be built at a very low cost. (http://www.io.com/~frg/)
- Plastics / Waste-to-Energy >
Polymer Energy LLC Turns Waste Plastics into Renewable Energy - The Polymer Energy™ system uses catalytic pyrolysis to efficiently convert plastics (primarily polyolefins) into crude oil. The system can handle as high as 30% impurities such as metals, glass, dirt, water, etc. in the feedstock, making pre-sorting, cleaning, or drying unnecessary, reducing overall operational costs. (http://www.polymerenergy.com)
- Biodiesel from Algae / CO2 Sequestration >
A2BE Using Algae to Capture Carbon and Produce Biodiesel and Food - A2BE Carbon Capture is developing bio-secure, scalable, climate adaptive, and highly cost-effective technology for producing valuable fuel and food from CO2 using algal photosynthesis and bio-harvesting in a system they call Algae@Work. (http://algaeatwork.com)
- Air Conditioning > Zeolite >
Zeolite-Water Heating and Cooling System - Zeo-Tech has developed a new energy conversion process for the efficient generation and storage of heat and/or cooling power. Driven by a heat source, this process is solely based on the material zeolite and water and is therefore fully compatible with the most stringent environmental regulations. (http://www.zeo-tech.de/e_index.htm)
- Wind > Horizontal Axis >
Broadstar Wind Systems - BroadStar's AeroCam is claimed to be the first turbine to break through the $1/watt cost barrier. It enables distributed power generation in almost any setting, including densely populated urban areas and can capture abundant surface-wind energy in wind farms. (http://www.broadstarwindsystems.com)
- Fuel_Efficiency > Engines >
Turbine Truck Engines, LLC - Owns an exclusive license for the manufacturing and marketing of a highly innovative, environmentally-friendly 300 to 1,000 horsepower turbine-based truck engine. Known as the Detonation Cycle Gas Turbine engine, its patented cyclical detonation technology is poised to revolutionize the heavy-duty truck engine market. (http://www.ttengines.com)
T100 By Category
See Congress:Top 100 Technologies -- Categorized - e.g. Solar, Wind
Sterling's List
See Congress:T100:Sterling's List - partitioned first by extent of commercial readiness and second by price point and other NEC criteria
Commercially Ready
See Congress:T100:Commercially Ready
Hopper
About
See Congress:T100:About - A brief description and history of this Top 100 listing, as well as guidelines and suggested bullet format.
Related Lists
Overview
- Evaluating and Open Sourcing Clean Energy Technology - Video of NEC founder, Sterling Allan's presentation at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle on Aug. 11, 2007 talking about screening the best technologies, and using the open source model to break the log jam on exotic, disruptive energy technologies.
Renewable
- Congress:T100:Sterling's List - listed by categories of those closest to market first.
- Five of the Most Promising Clean Energy Technologies (http://pesn.com/2006/10/16/9500427_Rauen_top_five/) - See what clean energy technology expert, Ken Rauen, recommended to a financial consultant in Milano, Italy, looking for suggestions of where to direct some major funding. (PESN; Oct. 16, 2006)
- The Top 10 Emerging Environmental Technologies (http://www.livescience.com/environment/top10_emergingenvironment_technologies.html) - LiveScience.com list includes #6 harness waves and tides; #5 ocean thermal energy conversion; #4 solar; #3 hydrogen power; #2 desalinization; #1 make oil from anything. (June, 2006)
- The Global 100: Most Sustainable Corporations 2007 (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/02/the_global_100.php) - The Global 100 (http://www.global100.org/2007/index.asp) list of the most sustainable corporations in the world for 2007 includes companies from 16 countries, in sectors ranging from oil and gas to wireless telecommunication services. The United Kingdom leads with 24, followed by the United States (19) and Japan (13). (TreeHugger; Feb. 1, 2007)
- Electric Vehicles > The Top Ten electric vehicles you can buy now (http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/02/07/the-top-ten-electric-vehicles-you-can-buy-today-for-the-most-pa/) - The list of retired EVs is long and, for some, emotional: the EV1, the Ranger EV, the RAV4 EV and so on. Instead of mourning, get off the gas in 2007 with one of these: Tesla Roadster , UEV Spyder (http://www.universalelectricvehicle.com/) , Phoenix SUT , Miles ZX40 (http://www.milesautomotive.com/) , ZENN , GEM (http://www.gemcar.com/) , Smart EV (http://www.hybridtechnologies.com/products.php?sec=1) , Mullen L1X-75 (http://www.hybridtechnologies.com/products.php?sec=1&id=3) , G-Wiz (http://www.goingreen.co.uk/) , Kurrent (http://getkurrent.com/home.html) (AutoblogGreen; Feb. 7, 2007)
Non-Renewable
for comparison
- Platts' Top 250 Global Energy Companies List (http://www.platts.com/top250/index.xml) - The Platts Top 250 is a global survey which measures financial performance by examining each company's assets, revenues, profits, and return on invested capital. All companies ranked have assets greater than (U.S.) $2 billion. Led by ExxonMobil Corporation.
See also
- Submit (http://www.pureenergysystems.com/submit/)
- Lists
- Main T100 Page - lists the Top 20
- Top 100 - Complete T100 list
- Commercially Ready
- Sterling's List - partitioned first by extent of commercial readiness and second by price point and other NEC criteria
- T100 Listing by Category
- Congress:T100:Hopper - awaiting evaluation for inclusion in the T100 list.
- Congress:T100:Former - bumped off the T100 island.
- Congress:T100:Not - The NEC voting never put it in the T100.
- Tally | Report (http://www.pureenergysystems.com/NEC/reports/top100/) | Polls (NEC) (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-TechRev/polls)
- Congress:Technology Criteria - renewable, environmentally safe, affordable, credible, reliable, feasible, safe, good team, developed
- About - A brief description and history of the Top 100 listing, as well as guidelines and suggested bullet format.
- T100 see also
