This week, the X Prize Foundation announced a pair of California students won the $25,000 prize for their crazy green idea, an ultra capacitor to store energy. This is a new approach to the age-old problem of how to leap forwardin battery design.
The foundation applauded all participants for their innovative ideas including finalist Alan Silva who proposed an off-grid house.
The ideas generated by Silva and more than 130 other participants are being used to help shape a future prize in energy and environment.
A technology consultant and video producer, Silva didnt have to cast far for an idea. He needed only to look at last summers gas- pump prices at $4 a gallon and his own home energy expenses to get his entrepreneurial juices going.
His proposal? Make affordable homes that can provide all of the energy its occupants use. Being off the grid would save hundreds of billions of dollars in energy costs, promote energy independence and provide energy security, says Silva.
The nonprofit X foundation fosters revolution through competition to benefit humanity and has awarded prizes up to $30 million in space travel, genomics and transportation.We were all impressed by the sheer number of ideas submitted and their level of sophistication, said Peter H. Diamandis, the foundations chairman and chief executive officer. It truly demonstrates how important this issue is to the public at large.
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