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ICE 2005 Winners
On April 27, 2005, nearly 300 attendees heard 11 finalists compete for $125,000 worth of prizes in the MIT Stata Center, Kirsch Auditorium. The winners were:
First Place
- Microbial Scale Solutions (Acillix)
One $15,000 cash award, plus one a year membership in UMass Lowell''s Commercial Venture Development incubator providing free office space and expert advice to jump start the winning teams business (valued at $20,000)
Second Place
- Student team: Advanced Conductors
- Professional team: Rentricity
Two $5,000 cash awards, one to a student team and one to a professional team
Third Place
- Student team: LiquidPiston
- Professional teams: SuperCool and Advanced Diamond Energy
Three $2,500 cash awards, at least one to a student team and one to a professional team
The Cummings Properties Prize
- Advanced Conductors
One year of free rent (valued at $25,000) at one of many Cummings Properties locations in Massachusetts
Cummings Properties Office Space Awards
- Advanced Diamond Energy
- CarboTran Technologies
- LiquidPiston
- NatEl
- Powerhouse Enterprises
- Rentricity
Six awards for one year of rent-free office space (valued at $10,000 each) at one of many Cummings Properties locations in Massachusetts
Company Descriptions
Advanced Conductors
Advanced Conductors provides equipment and processes for the vapor-phase deposition of conducting polymers to manufacturers in the emerging organic semiconductor market. Its coating technology will enable gains in the efficiency, lifetime, and production cost of new energy-saving devices including organic LEDs for general lighting, flexible displays, plastic solar cells, and electrochromic films for dynamically tinting glass.
Advanced Diamond Energy (ADE)
Advanced Diamond Energy has developed a revolutionary thermoelectricity solution to address the growing environmental problems of the existing $250B+ world energy market. ADE aims to commercialize a patented and validated amorphous diamond technology that can be used to create much more efficient solar cells as well as thermoelectricity generators that can utilize waste heat from existing nuclear, coal and oil energy sources to improve electricity production efficiencies.
Carbotran Technologies
Carbotran Technologies provides a product that converts an ethanol production plants waste stream into recyclable heat. This reduces the average plant''s energy cost by 70 percent or an estimated $5 million per plant per year.
LiquidPiston
LiquidPiston is developing a new internal combustion engine that is projected to double fuel efficiency and reduce pollutant emissions by 70-90 percent, when compared to conventional engines. The LiquidPiston engine is inherently scalable from lawnmowers to locomotives, providing a platform that can compete in any segment of the combustion engine market.
Microbial Scale Solutions (Acillix)
Microbial Scale Solutions offers environmentally sensitive technology solutions to the $1 billion annual problem of scale development in industrial water systems, which reduces energy consumption and pollution from fossil fuels and environmental contamination from current treatment strategies.
NatEl
NatEl, a renewable energy company with MIT and Tufts background, develops large, profitable, low-head hydropower projects. Using unique Linear HydroEngine technology, NatEl projects generate clean and ecologically sustainable power at existent low dams, such as river locks and dams or tidal dikes, where conventional turbine technologies cannot cost-effectively compete.
PowerHouse Enterprises
PowerHouse Enterprises is the first high-style, high-performance, green modular homebuilder/developer in the region. Harnessing factory efficiencies, PowerHouse can profitably combine high-quality construction with enhanced energy-efficiency features to create stylish architect-designed, healthy homes that arrive on time, on budget, and are competitively priced for the developer or private homebuyer.
Rentricity, Inc.
Rentricity, Inc. is an early-stage venture focused on transforming untapped energy in various man-made processes into electricity. The surplus power being targeted is contained within pipes where gases, liquids, or solids exert extra pressure. Rentricity will present its patent-pending Flow-to-Wiresm systems, classified as a renewable technology, to initially target municipal drinking water and wastewater systems to establish a this new form of renewable energy in New England.
SuperCool LLC
SuperCool LLCs mission is industrial ecology (the use of one industrys waste to make anothers product) by utilizing valuable cryogenic refrigeration energy currently wasted at LNG distribution terminals. SuperCool received its first U.S. patent for a heat transfer method to deliver refrigeration for cryogenic grinding (e.g. scrap tires) and plans to commercialize other cryogenic applications.
ICE 2005 in the News
News Reports
Pipe Dream: Harvard Team Wins First Prize in $125,000 MIT Clean Energy Business Plan Competition, The HarBus Online, May 9, 2005
Grad student entrepreneurs win green business prize, Harvard University Gazette, May 5, 2005
ICE 2005 Volunteers
Steering Committee:
- Jim Walker, Chair, MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Energy SIG, and Director, Global Utilities Industry Strategy and Development for Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Linda Plano, Chair, Ignite Clean Energy Competition, Chair, University Team Outreach, and Associate Director at the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC).
- Dan Goldman, Chair, Sponsorship, and Founder/CFO, New Energy Capital Corp.
- Jonathan Klavens, Chair, Judging, and Counsel, Bernstein, Cushner & Kimmell, P.C.
- David S. Miller, Chair, Mentoring, and MIT Graduate Ph.D. student, entrepreneur, and angel investor.
- Eric J. Krathwohl, Chair, Professional Team Outreach, and Managing Director, Rich May, PC.
MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
- Trish Fleming, Director.
- Ann Chaney, Program Manager.
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