125 universities including Caltech, Columbia, Delft University, Ecole Polytechnique, Max-Planck Innovation, MIT, Tokyo University of Science, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Zhejjang University already signed up to exhibit latest cleantech innovations to more than 3,000 industry executives. As of today, additional universities wishing to exhibit will be put on a waiting list pending available exhibition space.
Below is a snapshot of the “Best in Class” global clean tech ideas for 2008, which will be exhibiting at COPENMIND:
The “Best in Class” Global Clean Tech Ideas 2008:
- Covalent Solar: MIT (U.S.) – Thin film concentrator photovoltaic module that improves the efficiency of existing solar panels by 30%, and reduces the cost per watt by 20%.
- Depoll Air: Ecole Polytechnique (France) – An efficient, cost-effective, air treatment system. This new molecular technology improves air quality by helping to ‘eat’ the pollution as it is created.
- SiBNC Ceramics: Max Planck Innovation (Germany) – A fuel efficiency enhancing ceramics technology for lightweight aircraft. http://www.max-planck.de
- “Manchester Bobber”: Manchester University (UK) – Technology that generates electricity from under the sea. A number of platforms, each of which supports a closely spaced array of bobbing floats (between 25 and 50), generates electricity through independent underwater generators.
- Thin film solar cells: Dutch universities – in a joint programme energy supplier Nuon, TU Eindhoven, Universiteit Utrecht, TNO-TPD, Shell Solar and TU Delft developed a new solar cell film technology that substantially reduces the per-kilowatt hour costs of solar electricity
Created at: July 17, 2008 00:00