Recycling of nutrients from human urine

youtrition wrote: We are developing systems to recycle nutrients from urine in a sterile, safe and odorless way. For that we intend to produce a unit which collects the urine, that is then being filtered and sterilized so that it can be used as a fertilizer for the plants growing on top of the unit... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Reducing the data carbon footprint

Swiss Vault Systems wrote: Data is driving the new global economy, and the world’s datasphere is predicted to grow 10x by 2025. Currently, data centers use 3% of the global energy production, and this will expand to 10% in the next decade. Our patentable innovative data storage technology is 100x more efficient in electrical power consumption, 200x more efficient in space utilization - thus, decreasing overall carbon emissions and making data management “greener” for our innovation economy... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Umweltlink AG

Umweltlink AG wrote: Many types of industrial waste-water cannot be treated by conventional sewage plants. In developing countries, they go into rivers untreated. In highly developed countries they are burnt at very high cost. We have developed a low-cost technology to treat industrial waste-water. The scientific description of our technology is oxidative reduction of chemicals in aqueous systems with internal superoxide support. We call it orcaswiss. The orcaswiss reactor takes in industrial wastewater and treats if with air and hydrogen peroxide. The reactor lets out clean water which can be treated further and ultimately produce drinking water... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Clean energy to emerging countries

hiLyte wrote: In emerging countries, one billion people do not have access to electricity and spend up to 30% of their wages to light up and charge their phones. Most of sub-saharan african people own a phone but need to go back to town to charge it. Hilyte develops an iron battery based on a model of consumables to replace regularly (iron, paper, and iron salt), that enables people to get light and charge a phone. Our solution is cheap and nontoxic, which allows to operate small electronic devices (led, phone charger, etc . ). After inserting the consumables, they get discharged and the end solution can be dumped on the ground without any harm for the environment... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Help to find the right investor for a venture

sheprd wrote: Venture capital investors reject about 97% of startups pitches they receive. Investors want to see as many dealflow as possible and hence provide very broad profiles. As a result entrepreneurs, particularly these launching sustainability ventures in cleantech or novel hardware applications, spend too much time finding the right investor. The surge in machine learning, algorithms and data visualization opens vast opportunities to analyze massive amounts of data and present it in a simple way. However current venture data analytics platforms cater for investors, corporates or service providers. These tools are often too complex and very expensive for startups. Sheprd is a solution for startup financing... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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MyCarbonPal

MyCarbonPal wrote: Mycarbonpal wants to empower people to move towards a sustainable lifestyle. We help people improve their household environmental footprint by giving them a fun and accessible tool powered by iot devices, machine learning algorithm and blockchain technology. Mycarbonpal provides daily tailored challenges to track and adjust their food, water and energy consumption choices... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Fermentaya

fermentaya wrote: 30% of our rest bin still contains organic waste? what if we can bring it back into a biological cycle to reduce the climate impact. It is widely common in japan to ferment its organic waste at home in a container called bokashi. The container is not easy to handle because it requires lots of manual work. Fermentaya is bokashi 2. 0. Collecting organic waste at home is now easy. There is no smell and it is not disgusting. All your organic material can go in – there are no exceptions. The handling is convenient, and it is designed as a continuous process. The dosing of the microorganism, the compression of the organic waste and the automatic drain of the fermentation juice into a bottle... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Empowering healthy decision-making

Atlas Sensing Labs wrote: In a world where air pollution causes 6. 5 million premature deaths annually, in europe 500,000, there are still hundreds of thousands of cities (population > 50,000) where no air quality network exists. Air pollution can not be controlled without data. Our solution provides any urban area with a hyper-local monitoring network combined with modeling for the high spatial-temporal data needed for effective policy decision-making at an accessible price. Lower air pollution levels mean: fewer premature deaths; major savings on health, agriculture, infrastructure, the environment; while also having significant co-benefits for climate change... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Bloom Biorenewables

Bloom Biorenewables wrote: For the first time, bloom can fully valorise biomass. With our proprietary process, we create novel routes to the conversion of any plants material to everyday products. In the future we envision, plastics are made from wood, perfumes from nutshells and all our side-products go into bio-fuel production. Bloom is the implementation of this vision. With our passion and knowhow, we aim at revolutionising the chemical industry by providing new, cost-competitive solutions to source all carbon-based products... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Turning abandoned mineral waste into insulation

FenX wrote: Thermal insulation materials are mostly flammable, toxic and having high carbon footprint due to the production process. After the london grenfell fire in 2017, there are increasing demands for non-flammable insulation materials. To address this need, a new type of non-flammable insulation foam is developed at eth zurich. The foam is produced from non-toxic materials and has zero co2 emission during production... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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