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Announcement of the Winner for the Crazy Green Idea

Congratulations to Bryan Le and Kyle Good (The Capacitor Challenge Team) from Irvine, CA, winners of the X PRIZE Foundation’s first ever “What’s Your Crazy Green Idea” Contest!!!

Their “Crazy Green Idea” to develop a new storage medium, an “ultra-capacitor,” generated the highest number of votes to be crowned champions of this competition and be the recipients of the $25,000 prize check from Prize Capital.


Bryan Le & Kyle Good win $25,000!

Pictured (from top left to right): Dr. Shahed, Corporate Fellow of Honeywell Turbo Technologies, Neil Blakesley, Vice President Strategy & Marketing, BT Americas, Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, Lee Stein, Chairman and Founder of Prize Capital and Mark Bernstein, Managing Director of USC’s Energy Institute. Pictured (from bottom left to right): Kyle Good and Bryan Le

Highlights from the Announcement


More than 4,000 votes were received to determine our winner so we would like to thank you, the public audience, for your votes and sharing your enthusiasm for this competition. This has been an exciting contest for us here at X PRIZE and we are proud to have had Prize Capital as our sponsor. We’d also like to thank YouTube and its community for being an ideal forum for such a contest to take place.

The Winning Video - "The Capacitor Challenge"


We would also like to acknowledge our other two finalist teams: Alan Silva from Roy, Utah and Jonathan Dreher, Michael Norelli and Jeremy Stewart from Cambridge, Massachusetts. We couldn’t have been more pleased with all of our finalists and thank them for sharing their bright ideas not only with our competition but with the world. Their finalist videos are below:

Runners up

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If you would like to view all of the submissions, please visit:
http://www.youtube.com/group/crazygreenidea

Once again, we would like to extend a huge “thank you” to all who made the first ever “What’s Your Crazy Green Idea” such a crazy success and, of course, another congratulations to our winning team – the “Capacitor Challenge!” Also, special thanks to both Vulcan Ventures Inc.and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for their generosity in underwriting our general research into Energy & Environment X PRIZEs.

For the official press release, click here.

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Pictured (from top left to right): Dr. Shahed, Corporate Fellow of Honeywell Turbo Technologies, Neil Blakesley, Vice President Strategy & Marketing, BT Americas, Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, Lee Stein, Chairman and Founder of Prize Capital, Kyle Good, and Mark Bernstein, Managing Director of USC’s Energy Institute. Pictured (from bottom left to right): Winners, Kyle Good and Bryan Le Pictured (from left to right): Lee Stein, Chairman and Founder of Prize Capital, winners, Kyle Good and Bryan Le and Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation