The following is a list of interesting alternative energy ideas collected from various sources:
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| No | Area | Company | Idea | Status |
| 1 | Solar | Solar Roadways |
Solar cell based roads in US to produce 14 trillion units of electricity |
US$100,000 grant obtained to study viability |
| 2 | Bio-tech | Origin Oil |
Produce “new oil” from algae, through a cost-effective, high-speed manufacturing process |
Awaiting DOE grant |
| 3 | Solar | Innovalight | Nanotechnology based ink which can help generate solar power from building walls |
DOE has granted US$3million aid |
| 4 | Bio-tech | Sidkar Technologies |
Produce power from Urine |
Under study in India |
| 5 | Tidal | Langlee Wave Power | Norwegian based company developing converters for utilizing wave energy in areas with moderate wave conditions, 2-4 meter seas. |
Turkey awards contract for a 24 MW plant |
| 6 | Construction | ECOCITY | ECO CITY‘s conceptis based on creating the smallest possible ecological footprint by not exploiting or polluting but rather by co‑existing in harmony with surroundings. |
Phase 1 construction |
| 7 | Solar | Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics | A three-component semiconductor-based catalyst that can produce hydrogen from water when irradiated with light in the visible-wavelength region with a quantum efficiency as high as 93% |
Not known |
| 8 | Chemical | Max Planck Institute of Coal Research | New Solid Catalyst for the Direct Low-Temperature Oxidation of Methane to Methanol | Very recent |
| 9 | Solar | Mitsubishi Electric and IHI | Solar power plant 36,000 km away from earth with power beam down | Pilot setup to be tried by 2015 as a first phase |
| 10 | Thermal depolymerisation | Thermal Depolymerization (TDP) is a process using hydrous pyrolysis for the reduction of complex organic materials (usually waste products of various sorts, often known as biomass and plastic) into light crude oil. It mimics the natural geological processes thought to be involved in the production of fossil fuels. Under pressure and heat, long chain polymers of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon decompose into short-chain petroleum hydrocarbons with a maximum length of around 18 carbons. | Pilot plant is working |