Efficient solar modules for electric vehicles

Sharp Corporation have developed a solar module with one of the world’s highest conversion efficiencies, which enables on-vehicle charging for electric vehicles (EVs) to increase their range without frequent plug-in battery charging. A triple-junction compound was used to capture a wider range of the spectrum of sunlight, leading to a conversion efficiency for a solar module of 31.17% for 968 cm². With such a high rate of efficiency, the modules can be integrated into EV design and have an impact on energy generation.

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HIKARI positive energy building

Toshiba and Bouygues have together developed a solution for positive energy buildings they called “HIKARI”, which generates more energy than it consumes. A first-of-a-kind positive energy building, located in Lyon, France, HIKARI is designed to be an exceptional example of a smart building that leads to rethinking the design of more traditional buildings, to ensure a smart, sustainable city. Created through a partnership with the Japanese government agency New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and Grand Lyon, HIKARI is a part of Metropolitan Lyon’s mid-term objective to design new uses for housing and shared areas to encourage a "zero carbon" territory.

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GEO

GEO wrote: 62% of households in the kyrgyz republic rely entirely on coal for home heating that causes the loss of time and money spent on the purchase, transportation, unloading, storing coal, dealing with dirt, preparation of firewood used for ignition and the utilization of ash. . Social costs include air pollution from the burning dirty fuel, deforestation, a danger of fire or smoking the room. . A geothermal heating is the only renewable energy solution for homes that is available 365 days a year and can be used just about anywhere in the world. Geothermal heating systems are 400% efficient and provide 100% of the energy needed. . Geo’s team has found a way to make the geothermal heating systems 10 times cheaper... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Kazakhstan

HydroPlat

HydroPlat wrote: Hydrogen cars are relatively expensive to manufacture because they require the use of a rare substance as a catalyst. The platinum electrocatalyst that is used is not only expensive but can also be impure. Hydroplat is a unique technology that will replace this platinum electrocatalyst in hydrogen cars with the help of biomass. The biomass is sulfur and nitrogen dual-doped nanomaterials that were made from genetically modified cyanobacteria. Hydrogen cars are much better than electric cars because they will reduce carbon emissions by 40% globally and they can go more miles for one fill-up. Than electric cars. Our technology is cost-effective and efficient... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Kazakhstan

DACH

DACH wrote: Did you know that some of the major challenges we face in the world and africa at large are pest related? some of these challenges are toxic residue in our food products causing health problems and food shortage. This is where dach comes in to provide dane bio pesticide; a product (solution) that not only works on any pest but is also environmentally friendly. Meaning our food produce will be safer to consume and our ecosystem and its biodiversity will be safeguarded. The product is made entirely from environmentally safe ingredients compared to other synthetic pesticides that are harmful in so many ways... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Kenya

Bio - Alkanol Gel Fuel

Bio - Alkanol Gel Fuel wrote: It is estimated that in kenya, biomass fuels account for more than 90% of primary energy supply regardless of the adverse effects it has on the environment. Bio-alkanol gel is a thick liquid fuel which is a mixture of alkanol, cellulose and water. It’s an alternative biofuel which has been innovated so as to reduce kenya’s reliance on imported petroleum based products. Exploitation of sugars in mango,banana,watermelon,orange and papaya fruit peelings through microbial fermentation and egg shells as a source of bio-fuel is a novel undertaking. The conversion of fruit peeling cellulose biomass into cellulosic-alkanol and egg shells into calcium acetate (gelling agent) is an innovative way of turning waste into wealth. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Kenya

Turn waste to clean energy

Clean Planet wrote: We process different types of waste into highly flammable gas. We use the gas to generate steam for different applications. Including electricity, drying, hospital sterilizing heating and cleaning. Different waste feed stock leaves different residue. Plastic leaves nothing, rubber leaves black carbon safe material for road construction, aggro-waste like sugarcane and maize stalk leave. Char which is used to make briquettes, this is a clean fuel for cooking and barbecue application. No residue ever goes to the landfill if our innovation is implemented. No waste is transported to a landfill very far from where it was generated. We do not store waste at all. Waste will be processed to energy in our portable unit... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Kenya

Delivering bio-alkanol gel fuel

Alkagel Ltd wrote: This innovation addresses agro/biowaste conversion and therefore exploits fruit peelings and poultry-derived eggshells as raw materials to deliver economical and renewable biofuel capable of significantly lowering wood-based fuels, parafin and gas-based fuel dependency by rural communities in kenya,uganda and tanzania. Biofuels play significant roles in decarburization of our future energy needs and act to mitigate deleterious impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. The bio-alkanol gel fuel has orange peals as a raw material. Orange fruits accumulate the monoterpene limonene in their oil glands (badawy et al. 2017). Bio-akanol gel repels mosquitoes since d-limonene is incorporated into the bio-alkanol gel fuel... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Kenya

Expert agronomist at your finger tips

Ujuzikilimo Solutions wrote: Africa has more than 300 million smallholder farmers, but these farms are producing only at 30% of their potential. For these farmers, life can feel like a constant guessing game, and lack of data leads to uninformed farming decisions on fertilizers, seeds and other inputs. Farmers have lost an average of 40 kilograms of macronutrient per hectare every year -- the equivalent of us$5 billion/year worth of fertilizer. . Ujuzikilimo proprietary low cost sensor technology measures soil moisture, ph, nutrient levels (n, p, and k), location, and electrical conductivity (ec). The sensor technology does not require existing soil maps and therefore can be easily used everywhere... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Kenya

We convert plastic waste

Mega Gas wrote: People all over the world use fuels everyday to survive and move. Traditional forms of fuels comprise biomass and fossil fuels. These fuels forms have been over strained beyond limits, exploitation of biomass fuels have degraded eco system. This leads to global warming and hence introducing new clean fuels into use to replace dependence on traditional fuels with the hope of reducing global warming and improving health of majority of population who have no access to fuels. The use of biomass fuels leads to indoor pollution that kills over four million annually according to world health organization. Plastic waste is also a big menace world wide, even now we have the island of plastic in the pacific ocean... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Kenya