Sustainable Solutions

Sustainable Solutions wrote: To reclaim our planet earth by reusing and recycling various. Disposable products which are otherwise harmful for our environment. We aim to provide eco-friendly, innovative sustainable solution for solid waste. Management. Our main focus is to reuse the plastic pet bottles in concrete blocks. This way we can not only get rid of massive number of pet bottles dumped every. Year but we can also control soil erosion... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Pakistan

Grid-scale thermal storage using solid-state material

EnergyNest developed a thermal battery for thermal power plants and energy-intensive industries. The company recently installed and commissioned a pilot system with a combined capacity of 1 MWth. The company says that the system was operated over more than 6,000 hours with an energy cycling profile resembling operation in a power plant. In 2018, a first free-standing commercial module was manufactured and displayed at the company’s assembly site in Rotterdam. Since the technology’s two main materials – concrete and steel – are available and recyclable, it can be deployed in any geographical location, and up to 80% of the storage materials can be sourced locally.

Norway

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Converting desert to fertile soil

Through Desert Control’s patented mixing process, Liquid NanoClay (LNC) combines clay and water and is then spread onto sandy soil. It enables the soil to retain water, turning desert into fertile soil. Production of LNC happens on site. Cultivating sandy soil into fertile land normally takes from seven to fifteen years, whereas Desert Control’s LNC accomplishes that in just hours. One application of LNC lasts a minimum of five years and only natural products are used during production, without the use of chemicals.

Norway

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Inventory management system to reduce food waste

TotalCtrl have developed software based on automatic data harvesting for the grocery industry to reduce food waste at the retail and consumer levels. TotalCtrl’s solution includes pre-expiration notice, inventory and autogeneration of recipes. The solution is currently available for the grocery industry and consumers. The technology is designed so that it can be easily integrated into existing systems.

Norway

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Co-using

Co-using wrote: With rising population, decreasing household sizes, changing family structures and a growing individualistic mindset, co-using questions the future of housing in norway. It is a new social order that allows you to “choose” who you live with, how you live, how much you occupy in terms of hours in a day and space - and by paying for that much only. Further, it promotes a community mind-set and a shared economy, while accommodating for individuality. Each dwelling unit is a module consisting of personal space, a flexible multi-use space (that oscillates between private and public) and a community space... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Norway

Cousing

Cousing wrote: The idea is a shared work and living space to reduce the climate impact from the building sector. This will lead to: decrease in amount of rent. Less loneliness increasing sense of community. Reduced climate and environmental impact. Of course people are challenged to accept this kind of housing but it is worth trying... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Norway

Nabosol - Cosharing of roofs for solar panels

Nabosol wrote: Our idea is to bring together homeowners with roofs usable for pv-panel installation, with other homeowners or companies without available roof space, but willingness to invest in renewable energy. The solution includes installation of batteries to help with the flexibility of the energy system. Each private actors will get their part of share as energy price reduction, and the surplus energy will be stored in batteries and sold back to the grid when it`s profitable... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Norway

The League of Energy

WeCare wrote: Wecare runs annual competitons to create engagement with the co-creation of positive energy neighborhoods. There will be monthly themes and competitions, with small rewards (for example free concert within neighborhood from local band). These events will be an opportunity for learning, sharing skills and engaging the community which eventually will lead to co-creation. We focus on the creation and communication of stories which show how neighborhoods take the steps to reduce their energy consumption and begin the creation of localised energy sources. We utilise all possible communication platforms to spread the message. To reach the final goal of of creating postivie energy neighborhoods... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Norway

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

Norway

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

Norway