Klimaverksted - an Educational Package

Klimaverksted wrote: Children are the decision makers of the future. At the same time, they have an influence on their parents, the decision makers of today. We aim at making the parents engage in the co-creation of positive energy districts by approaching their children. Klimaverksted is an educational package for children at the age of 10-13. It consists of three elements: first, an educational component about the basics of climate change, renewable energy production and the relevance combined with the current curriculum for schools in norway. Second, the children receive a toolbox consisting of a toolkit for a small power station. A solar panel or a wind turbine. Also a manual for constructing a paper house from an old cardboard box is included... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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Community Based Solar Powered Thermal

Thermal Thieves wrote: Active solar water heat storage systems offer a viable way to supplement current energy intensive methods of generating space heating and hot water. There are solar panel technologies designed for the purposes of collecting thermal energy from the sun and transferring it to a closed loop heating system. This on site creation and storage of thermal energy at the source eliminates the infrastructure and inefficiencies inherent in district heating systems supplied by offsite power generators. In addition to personal unit supplies, we propose a community storage system that operates on a separate closed loop and is energized once personal systems have reached capacity... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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Greening evolving industries

GreenEvo wrote: Greenevo is working with brining green technologies to evolving industriest, hence the name. Our first project is based on the nasa developed omega-system, which has been adapted for the norwegian industries and environment, using norwegian knowledge surrounding offshore installments and aquaculture. Omega cleans wastewater, and produces; food, drinking water, and other products like biofuels, using only renewable energy... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Sharing economy platform for b2b goods

Green Cargo Network wrote: Green cargo network provides a software that functions as a fleet management system and a marketplace for b2b goods transportation for a percentage of the assignment revenue. We bring the sharing economy to goods transportation by connecting freight companies and businesses in a distributed network, thus allowing for better customer-transporter matching while preserving economies of scale. The service provided increases a transportation company's vehicle capacity utilization and reduces operational costs through optimized customer matching, integrated vehicle routing planning and smart contracting... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Smart plant selection tool and community

Sprout wrote: Sprout offers a smart solution for urban gardeners with limited experience. Based on your location and sunlight conditions, the web-tool shows you what vegetables, herbs and flowers you can easily grow. Select what you are growing at home, upload your garden plan and connect to other urban gardeners in your neighbourhood and all over the world to exchange tips, tricks and happy green stories... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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A sustainable grocery shopping app

TotalCtrl Consumer wrote: Totalctrl consumer offers a solution to the grocery industry that makes it easier for their customers, the consumers, to plan, buy, and to use food. Totalctrl consumer is a sustainable grocery app that gives consumers control over their own consumption. Everything is connected. By letting the consumer plan, buy and use smarter, the grocery retailers will do the same. Totalctrl consumer will reduce the money retailers waste, literally, in the garbage in the form of foods. Improved inventory control, increased purchasing experience and streamlining sales are just some of the benefits that our solution contributes to. The app consists of features such as notification according to expiration date and autogeneration of recipes... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Digital energy platform

Leydn Digital Energy wrote: Develop a digital energy platform for electric storage and demand side management. And build a platform for prosumers and transitive energy systems... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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An energy and money saving shower

Every Drop Counts wrote: A water, energy and money saving shower that does not compromsie on shower comfort and has a short payback time. Sold to entities overseeing a lot of showers at once... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Cost effective desalination of seawater

Ocean Oasis wrote: Water scarcity is a growing challenge in a large part of the world. Desalination of seawater is an energy intensive process and in coastline areas where water scarcity coincides with a significant wave climate, desalination of seawater is an attractive application for utilisation of wave energy. . The ocean oasis desalination device uses wave energy directly to desalinate seawater without going via the production of electricity. It is estimated that the ocean oasis device can deliver water to shore at a cost of 0. 9 usd/m3 and 0. 5 usd/m3 for a nw arica and a south africa wave environment respectively. . The next step in the development of the concept is a small scale demonstration project... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Enabling greener electrical grids

Sensero wrote: Losses in the electrical power grid represent one of the biggest expenses for grid operators - nearly € 205 million yearly in norway alone. Power grid operators currently lack the information and the tools to know where these losses occur. . At the same time, 200 million sensors are being implemented in the grid and in homes all over europe, at an investment cost of € 45 billion. These sensors produce vast amounts of data which contain currently hidden and valuable information. . However, there is a huge gap in the market between the available data and the tools needed to leverage it into valuable information. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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