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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.
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
- 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: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.
- 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.
- 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/)
- Theoretical | Directory:Solid State Generators >
Sines Reluctance Generator (Potomac Energy Projects) - Electrical generator involves thin film superconductivity, vortices and magnetic flux gates. (http://www.potomacenergyprojects.com - NEC Specialist: Eddie Sines, Inventor)
- Nelson Scientific's Electron Capture - Developing commercial method for capturing electrons for electricity. Device catches free electrons in a vacuum, where they are redirected to conductors, yielding electricity. (http://nelsonscientific.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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Validated | Available for Purchase | Directory:Wind >
O'Conner Hush Energy Turbine - Arthur O'Conner of Australia has international patents on a wind turbine design that is very quiet, can operate a low speeds while tolerating high wind speeds, with a price tag that makes energy generation comparable to grid energy cost for residential and commercial applications. (http://www.hushenergy.com)
- Validated | Available for Commercial Purchase | Directory:Wind >
Offshore Wind Technology - Winds are stronger and more stable; economy of scale. (GE)
- Directory:Home Generation:Cogeneration >
Kokhala: Electricity from Low Temperature Heat & Storage in PCS - Technology harnesses 120+ degrees from a wide variety of sources to generate electricity, for reliable, affordable, clean power for residential, commercial and industrial applications.
Top 100 -- Complete List
See Congress:Top 100:Complete List - the whole Top 100 Energy Technologies listing.
Recently Added
The following are new additions to the list, whose tallies have not yet been integrated into the above list.
- 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)
- Concentrated Solar >
eSolar Utility-Scale Solar Power (http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:eSolar) - eSolar thermal power systems use reflected sunlight via heliostats as a heat-source to drive electric generators. Using small heliostat size and the advantage of mass production, eSolar systems were designed to minimize cost, realizing economy-of-scale at 33 MW, becoming cost competitive with fossil-fuel-powered plants. (http://esolar.com)
- Ethanol >
Coskata Turns Waste to Ethanol via Bacteria - Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company that has developed a technology that uses proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs to produce Ethanol for under US$1.00 per gallon anywhere in the world, from carbon-based feedstock. (http://coskata.com)
- Waste-to-Energy / Alt. Fuels > Diesel >
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.
- Solar > Concentrated >
SUNRGI's Affordable CSP Solar Coming in a Year - Focusing the sun's rays 2000x and pulling the heat away from the photovoltaic cells, combined with a method of low-cost mass production, the Xtreme concentrated photovoltaics by SUNRGI are expected to produce in the range of 5-7 cents per kilowatt hour. (http://sunrgi.com)
- Thermal Electric >
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/)
- Batteries / Lighting >
Litrospheres provide inexpensive, continuous light - A glow-in-the-dark paint company, MPK Co, has come up with self-luminous micro particles called Litrospheres which they say are inexpensive, non-toxic, and will stay on for 12+ years (half-life point) continuously. (http://www.glopaint.com)
- Thermal Electric / Solar >
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.
- Tidal / River >
Venturi System Optimizes Water Flow Harnessing - Patented venturi containment system increases turbine efficiency 3.85 times what the turbine would produce without the system, making this a world leading design. The company is now commencing the commercialization stage, with an expected price that competes with coal in the range of 3.5 to 6 cents per kw-h.
- Waste to Energy / Plastic >
GRC 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.
- High Altitude Wind Power >
Makani Aims to Harvest High Altitude Wind - "Makani Power is seeking to harness high-altitude wind energy to produce energy at an unsubsidized real cost significantly below that of the least expensive coal-fired power plants, the current benchmark of the lowest cost source of power." Google has invested $10 million in Makani. (http://www.makanipower.com)
- Biomass / Clean Coal >
Biomass-based "Coal" Makes Coal Plants Renewable and Clean - NewEarth Renewable Energy, Inc. produces a "coal" equivalent from biomass sources. The pellets do not smoke, and produce virtually no pollution, yet have the same BTU content as coal, but at a lower price, ultimately. (http://newearth1.net)
- Directory:Fuel Efficiency >
330 MPG Aptera Hybrid - The Aptera prototype, which is halfway to completion, will go for up to 330 miles on a gallon of gas thanks to an aerodynamic design and the lightweight composites that make up the chassis. (http://www.aptera.com)
- Biofuels / Concentrated Solar / Clean Coal >
GreenShift's CO2 Bioreactor - Patented process uses algae to consume greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fueled power plants, giving off pure oxygen and water vapor. Light from concentrated solar panels is conducted into the algae chambers via fiber optics. Once the algae grows to maturity, it is harvested for conversion into ethanol and biodiesel fuels.
- Validated | Cold Fusion >
JET Energy is Developing Cold Fusion Technology - Having brought cold fusion through many generations of advancement, Mitchell Swartz' company is in process of developing the technology to the point that it could be commercialized. They made history in 2003 by running a large public demonstration for five consecutive days at MIT.
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
