OCETA CleanTech e-News
February 2010
Energy Management and Efficiency

Eden Park scores $2M to bring LED alternative to market
Eden Park Illumination has officially entered the efficient lighting fray, scoring $2 million in new venture capital, and a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Air Force, according to Dow Jones Clean Technology Insight...[Details]

Materials

"Melting" Drywall Keeps Rooms Cool
Developers think these phase-change materials could reduce the need for air-conditioning...[Details]

Kodak to Help to Make Plastic Wrap From Carbon Dioxide
Kodak once specialized in the times of your life. Now it will help Novomer to bring CO2-based plastics to the market...[Details]

Dust Be Gone With Self Cleaning Solar
Researchers at Tel Aviv University set out to find a cure to Alzheimer's and ended up with a nanotech breakthrough that could mean better solar and battery power...[Details]

Transportation

Truck Retrofits Could Cut Fuel Use by 3.4 Billion Gallons a Year
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Navistar are testing drag-reducing devices that could cut big rig fuel use by 12 percent, or 3.4 billion gallons a year...[Details]

Water and Wastewater

Brunel academics invent the WaterBox water purification system for disaster zones
Targeted for use in disaster zones, the WaterBox from Brunel University academics is a water purification system which makes contaminated water fit for human consumption...[Details]

Small but perfectly formed
Repairing downpipes, house sewers and lateral connection pipes can be a real problem. But a successfully trialled scaled down method for sewer rehabilitation could prove the answer...[Details]

Other News

Sustainable Development Technology Canada Announces Latest Call for Clean Technology Funding Applications
Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is calling on entrepreneurs and technology developers across Canada to submit Statements of Interests to the SD Tech Fund™, as SDTC opens its 17th round of funding...[Details]



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