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Jun 1, 2008 6:57 pm US/Mountain

Middle Eastern Students In Colo. For Green Mission

Reporting
Dave Aguilera
GOLDEN, Colo. (CBS4) ― There was some friendly competition Friday in Golden as students from Colorado and the Middle East squared off on a green mission.

It was a challenge put out by an oil company looking for eco-friendly ways to get rid of refinery waste. The challenge was to build a solar furnace prototype to destroy hazardous waste at the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.

"We are just trying to boil some water with reflected sunlight," said Tim Kamper, an engineering student at the Colorado School of Mines

"They want to shift to solar energy because gas prices are sky rocketing, as you know," said Abdulla Malek, engineering student at the Petroleum Institute. "Also, solar energy is very friendly to the environment."

The competition is part of a program that exposes engineering students to ideas from different cultures.

The prototype for the School of Mines has 49 individual mirrors all directed at one point, with the heat of eight, 100 watt light bulbs.

"We have more mirror space, so we have more energy, but they probably have a tighter focal point, so their energy will be more compact and more focused," Kamper said.

The small scale prototypes are just boiling water, but the teams have put together large scale design plans that may be used by major oil companies to replace conventional natural gas furnaces.

"Many companies; they are all of them are trying to switch to the other energy, the renewable energy, like solar energy," student Abdulla Al Ameri said.

The Middle Eastern students got their water bubbling a little faster, but the School of Mines team is confident their design can be just as effective with some minor tweaking.

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