The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif., has announced the winners of its 2008 Intel Environment Award, which honours efforts to provide economical and environmentally-friendly solutions for developing countries.

This year's winners include the Biomass Energy Project of Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia.

CCF's BushBlocks Project is a biomass processing plant that uses a high-pressure extrusion process to convert invasive bush into a clean and economically viable alternative to existing products such as firewood, coal, lump charcoal and charcoal briquettes used for cooking fuel and barbecues.

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