Idea Lounge - New Solar Pump

New Solar Pump: Humanitarian Vision Including Business Concept Wins Fourth Multivisional Idea Lounge.

The power of the sun used against water shortage. With this inspiring concept, Dietmar Stuck Jr. from Carinthia becomes the winner of the fourth multivisional idea lounge IdeenLounge. The newly introduced special prize for the most potent idea goes to Christian Steger-Vonmetz from Voralberg, who enthused with his concept of a private car-sharing network.

This time in the jury: Oliver Vogt, former chief editor and issuer of the publishing group News; Johannes Trauttmansdorff, degreed engineer, founder and owner of ImWind Group GmbH; Dr. Philipp Kinsky, partner of Herbst Vavrovsky Kinsky solicitor’s office; Dr. Claus Hofer, General Manager of the ZIT, the Technologic Center Vienna.

Out of some 30 applications from Austria and Germany, 5 were invited to present their start-up ideas. “The ever growing number of interesting applications shows that Austria is well prepared to become a Silicon Valley for sustainability“, says Hannes Offenbacher, managing proprietor of Mehrblick.

About 70 invitees from the fields of economy, science, politics and sponsoring witnessed the 4 short presentations of the start-up ideas on the premises which were allocated by the Kommunalkredit Austria AG. Also present were: Thomas Ecker, Senior Investment Manager tecnet equity NÖ Technologiebeteiligungs-invest GmbH; Roswitha Reisinger, MBA, lebensART VerlagsGmbH; Mag. Peter Engert, Raiffeisen-Leasing Ges.m.b.H.; Mag. Elisabeth Freytag, Gvt. Dept. Lebensministerium; Christian Gummerer, Managing Director Landentwicklung Steiermark; Max Deml, Chief Editor of Öko-Invest-Verlag publishing company, Board of Management Greetec Invest AG; Mag. Wolfgang Glass, Umwelt Cluster and Wirtschaftsagentur Vienna; Dr. Andreas Gotwald, Managing Director at TPA Horvath; Jürgen Wahl, MBA, Managing Director at Wahl & Partner GmbH. 

Special thanks go to the sponsors of the fourth idea lounge: Solicitor’s Office HVK; Technological Agency of the City of Vienna ZIT, and the Kommunalkredit Austria.

About “NSP-New Solar Pump“

The “NSP Solar Pump – Solar Well Pumping Station“ was developed as a cost-efficient opportunity to pump water out of water wells independent of any electrical power supply to private persons, companies and aid organizations. Dietmar Stuck Jr., founder of the Austrian enterprise, can look at 10 years of experience in the field of well construction. He had the idea about one year back, when he visited a well station in Africa which was operated by wind power.

“The queue was incredibly long, but there being hardly any wind, almost no water could be got. Seeing this, the idea of a solar well pump came to my mind. And by now, we’re able to pump water out of wells with depths of more than 150 metres“, says Dietmar Stuck. www.newsolarpump.com 

About “Caruso Car-sharing“

“Neighbourly car-sharing must become much easier. We want to develop various measures to make private car-sharing more comfortable. For example a cost-efficient and simple reservation system and an electronic logbook. We use the internet and a smart phone for that“, says Christian Steger-Vonmetz, traffic planner and management consultant.

Caruso Car-sharing is already in its testing phase and compels through its convenient handling.

Mehrblick IdeenLounge_10.02.2011

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