UT Employee Wins $10,000 for Green Business
May 15, 2009
The Business In the Green program, sponsored by the Knoxville Business Journal, KUB and Thermocopy, awarded a $10,000 grant to Calvin Esau to demonstrate green technology in his West Knoxville business.
Esau owns the Speedy Transmission auto repair center. His grant proposal included installing a furnace that would burn waste-oil transmission
fluid to provide building heat. This would reduce Speedy Transmission’s
heating and waste disposal costs, as well as transportation liability.
The furnace was not Esau’s only green project idea. Additionally, he would like to use the grant to replace an old, inefficient industrial parts washer, and to install a fabric boom around the edge of his property to catch spills of oil and transmission fluid before they run off into groundwater.
More information about Speedy Transmission and the Business In the Green
program is available at http://www.knoxnews.com/business/green.
