Pilus Energy takes energy cell work to international VC stage in Silicon Valley

Local startup Pilus Energy will be among a prestigious group of young, high tech companies presenting their ideas and products at the Launch: Silcon Valley 2010 international launch event. 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 creates energy for cells. The company has created a reactor that pulls energy, hydrogen gas and water from organic waste matter and turns it into electricity.  This process could be used to power the residential, industrial, commercial and transportation sectors and is a renewable, 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.” Pacific Gas & Electric in northern California has signed up for four pilot programs using the new reactor, says Barkeloo.  The company also has a pilot planned for a large agri-farm operation. Soapbox recently featured Pilus Energy in an article Five Cincinnati Companies That Could Change the World. Writer: Feoshia Henderson Source: Jason Barkeloo, Founder & President of Pilus Energy   You can follow Feoshia on twitter @feoshiasoapbox