Silcon Valley 2010 will be June 8 at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, California. This premiere product launch event is co-sponsored by Garage Technology Ventures, Microsoft and the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs. Thirty companies will pitch their products to top VCs, Angels, corporate business development executives, prospective customers and partners, bloggers and media.
Pilus Energy, with offices in Covington and Cincinnati, is developing a clean alternative energy technology that duplicates a natural bacterial metabolic process that process that generates electricity. The company has created a bioreactor that pulls electricty, hydrogen gas and water from organic material like wastes matter and turns it into electricity.
This process could be used to power the residential, industrial, commercial and transportation sectors and is a renewable, and potentially lower cost, form of energy production.
Pilus was the only Midwest presenter chosen from nearly 400 applicants that include IT, mobility, security, digital media, next generation internet, technology and clean energy companies from around the world.
"This will give us a chance to be in front of the world's most famous VCs and give us the opportunity to say what we are doing in Cincinnati to reduce the cost of electricity generation and to make it cleaner," said Jason Barkeloo, Founder & President of Pilus Energy. "(This) is the ideal California venue for us to present our innovative cleantech energy solution. Adopters of our bioreactor will be able to extract energy and water from carbon compounds found in waterways, farms, sewage, wastes, plant pulps, and prepared feedstocks.”
Pilus Energy is working with a large utility company located in California to place pilot sites, says Barkeloo. The company also has a pilot planned for a large agri-farm operation.
Writer: Feoshia Henderson
Source: Jason Barkeloo, Founder & President of Pilus Energy
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