I do work for a company that has developed a new oil pump (started about 5 years ago) there are grants through the dept of energy for new energy technology (we got one way back when) there is also a program called SBIR that provides technology related research grants.

I bought a program once that was supposed to search for gov grants and it was a total waste. You can go to your Congressman's office (or ours had it at least) and get a book that has gov grants in it.

Alan Moore
amoore@1stcalltechnology.com