Monday, July 29, 2013

Technology:

EERE Awards Include Geothermal Waste Heat Recovery Company (EERE News)

The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has announced new awards totaling nearly $11 million to help small businesses in nine states develop innovative ideas that could cut carbon pollution, reduce our reliance on imported oil, and boost energy efficiency.

(Courtesy Cool Energy, Inc.)
Technologies among the 11 projects receiving awards include a project led by Cool Energy, Inc. of Boulder, Colorado, that will test a high efficiency, low temperature geothermal power technology that could help develop geothermal energy resources across most of the United States.

Cool Energy has developed an innovative and pioneering Stirling engine, called the SolarHeart® Engine, that converts low temperature heat energy (100°C to 300°C) into electricity.

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