2007 Winners

Graphic and Links to 2007 Winners (Link)
This news release sat on our home page from June until September 2007 celebrating the achievement of the teams.
Team Infinity: The Flex Fuel Car (Word)
The FlexFuel vehicle takes elements of existing technologies and renewable energies, fusing them into a single, seamless vehicle. The engine will be able to run on electricity, hydrogen, biogas, and fossil fuels; this maximizes efficiency of the car according to distance and speed. Most importantly, our design allows consumers to choose the cheapest energy. The FlexFuel vehicle creates a platform, upon which everything is updateable and interchangeable, lifting the efficiency of existing vehicles to a whole new level.
Go Green: Photovoltaic Panels (Word)
An ordinary tiled roof in California. An office building in Japan. An ordinary refrigerator in Ethiopia. What do all these things have in common? A thin-film, multi-junction, CIGS photovoltaic panel with quantum dots! You are thinking: "But I don't see any solar panels!"
Innovatech: Sludge on Steroids (Word)
Using the GreenFuel Emissions-to-Biofuels process, emissions from factory chimneys are guided through a Bioreactor, which is a pyramid of pipes filled with photosynthetic algae. Two of nature's fundamental processes ” photosynthesis and nutrition ” help to remove the largest contributors to global warming: CO2 and NOx. Once the gases have been absorbed by the algae, what remains is a residue from which can be obtained several useful by-products, which in turn yield more energy!
2007 Winners Announced
Global T.E.A.M. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (Word)
Oceans cover almost 70% of our earths surface. With this great expanse comes great opportunity for harnessing of new sources of energy. OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) provides a means to harness this latent, and insofar untapped, energy.
Earth Empowered Ones: Solar Fuel Cell Stack (Word)
The Solar Fuel Cell Stack (SFCS) is an invention based on the analysis of the battery industry and our exploration of the industry's science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The SFCS is innovative because it combines the science and technologies of solar batteries, thermal batteries and fuel cells while it is different from any of the listed sciences and technologies.
Supersonics: (Word)
After months of brainstorming, our company decided on three intellectual properties to base our ideas on: adjustable insulation localized lighting and heating, and intelligent distribution of natural light.
Team Euphoria: My Car Runs on Water! (Word)
Our idea basically consists of a car, fuelled by the omnipresent resource, water, and the element "boron," leading to the creation of a vehicle, which would be completely emission-free.
Blufactors: AlgaEnergy (Word)
Our industry has taken the existing technology of bio-fuels and has gone the extra miles to turn these fuels into a feasible alternative to their fossilized counterparts. This is what the AlgaEnergy system does. We have developed a device that will turn algae into a fuel for transportation, heat, and electricity.
Ultimate Energy: Intelligent Home Energy Management System (PDF)
Office energy waste can be solved by computers and automation. The principle is simple: when certain conditions are met (time, temperature, etc.) a switch flips, and a bank of lights are turned off. The principle is then expanded: if a computer can control lights, then it can also control heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), electrical outlets, and even manufacturing equipment in factories.
InitiaTEAM: nLife - Home Networking System (Word)
Have you ever forgotten to turn off the lights or lock the door when you are leaving your home? Or, have you ever looked outside your house to check if the home gas valve was turned off? nLife corporation provides you with a complete solution that will make customers enjoy a better life with the service packages it will market.