The Abrams Clean Tech Report

 

California Clean Tech Open Winners Announced Last Night

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Check out the companies listed. What an impressive bunch. http://www.cacleantechopen.com/ It was really a great ceremony, and you couldn’t help but be happy for the winners, the runners-up, and all the participating companies. They’ll all benefit from the visibility. There was great energy there last night, too.

I was there on behalf of the MIT Club of NorCal’s Clean Tech & Renewable Energy Group, a sponsor of the event, and it was really just great to see the companies, hear about the technologies, and know that there is a lot of incredible stuff being developed that will make life a little better for everyone.

AMD Smart Power Award
Winner - Lucid Design Group
Runner Up - Federspiel Controls

ENVIRON Foundation and Grundfos Air, Water and Waste Award
Winner - Microvi Biotech LLC
Runner Up - EarthGuard

Google Green Building Award
Winner - BuildFast
Runner Up - Enverity Corporation

Lexus Transportation Award
Winner - Syncromatics
Runner Up - Hum Cycles

PG&E, SCE and SDG&E Renewables Award
Winner - 1-Solar
Runner Up - Tahoe Water Systems

PG&E, SCE and SDG&E Energy Efficiency Award
Winner - NiLA Inc.
Runner Up - Ahwahnee Technology

2007 List of Finalists:
Air, Water & Waste Category Finalists
Cascade Clean Energy: Smart microorganisms for wastewater energy recovery
EarthGuard: Environmentally friendly plastic packaging
Exergy Systems, Inc.: Separation/purification for process chemical and water reuse
Friendly Cow Biogas: Biodigesters for rural areas
GreenPyro - Waste Not, Want Not: Waste gasification and carbon sequestration
Microvi Biotech LLC: Waste-free water treatment technologies
Nanoaqueonics: Environmentally safe fabric and automobile care products
Vision Energy Corp.: Carbon-neutral municipal waste to natural gas conversion

Energy Efficiency Category Finalists
Ahwahnee Technology Advanced area lighting: disruptive alternative to LEDs and fluorescents
Aquarian Microsystems: Active micro control of refrigerant liquids
Blue Earth Energy, Inc.: Low-power refrigeration and cooling from heat capture
NiLA Inc.: LED stage set lighting for the entertainment industry
Progressive Cooling Solutions, LLC: Micro Loop Heat Pipe cooler for microelectronics
SuperBulbs: New generation LEDs in light bulb form factor
Zee Dynamics Inc.: Synthetic and natural rubber and rubber plastic compounding

Green Building Category Finalists
BuildFast: House kit for low-income and post-disaster housing
E-Mod: Semi-customizable modular home, focused on sustainability
Enverity Corporation: Environmental data management software
Morgan Digital Works: Website for green home improvement plans
Redwood Renewables: Integrated solar PV roofing tiles
Vertical Landscape: Load bearing shear walls sustain vegetation

Renewables Category Finalists

1-Solar: Low-priced long-life inverters for solar PV
Ascentool, Inc.: Equipment and process technologies to enable sustainable solar PV
Hoda Globe Company: Clean thermoelectric energy
Humdinger Wind Energy, LLC: Micro wind power from vibrating generator
Lite Trough, LLC: Concentrating parabolic trough collectors
Sereno Solar: Building-integrated solar water heating panels
SolarAire, LLC: Solar thermally-driven air conditioning
SolarPower Restoration Systems, Inc.: Solar enabled building systems for roofs, walls and concrete
Tahoe Water Systems: Self-contained solar/wind based water pumping

Smart Power Category Finalists
Aptility: Distributed thermostat HVAC thermal controls
Blue Joule Technologies Inc.: Advanced inverter for concentrating PV power plants
Energi.ca: Smart power electronics for solar systems
Federspiel Controls: Wireless supervisory control of HVAC systems
Grid Saver: Appliance remote control and monitoring system for utilities and their customers
Lucid Design Group: Real-time information feedback drives energy conservation

Transportation Category Finalists
barefoot motors, LLC: “Green” electric all-terrain utility vehicles
BGT Biogasoline: Effective heptanone biofuel, alternative to ethanol
EnerLynx: ICR Advanced Vehicle Engine Lightweight and efficient engine for trucks and buses
High Merit Thermoelectrics: Converts waste heat to electricity
Hum Cycles: High performance electric sport motorcycles
New American Energy, Inc., d/b/a Mighty Algae Biofuels: Farms algae for biodiesel
RFT: Converts farm waste cellulose into methanol, fertilizer and CO2 for sequestration
RideSpring: Outsourced web-based trip reduction for companies - an alternative commute solution
Syncromatics: Automated vehicle location for transit line efficiency
The Last Mile: A personal vehicle that enables public transit

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