Clean energy storage for renewable energy

FibAirTech wrote: Energy storage is gaining relevance due to the increasing participation of renewable energy sources in the grid. The inherent intermittent nature of solar and wind energy made use storage necessary in order to. To provide energy when it is needed. Fibairtech offers an energy storage clean-tech technology based in the power of the compressed air. Using well known technologies as compression process and cutting edge materials, energy can be stored using mainly air. A particular arrangement in the system components can be customized for different sizes and applications... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Netherlands

UrbaGarden

UrbaGarden wrote: Have you ever wondered where the food that you consume comes from? . We at urbagarden present a simple, sustainable and innovative way for growing fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs from the comfort of your home, a modular unit made from recycled materials for home-based indoor gardening. Urbagarden helps to reduce carbon emissions created by conventional agriculture by almost 90% per kilogram of produce and since our units are made from recycled materials this gives additional benefits to the environment. You will have access to fresh fruits, herbs, vegetables, and a feeling of satisfaction of growing your own food and educating your children in the process, while at the same time having a positive impact on the environment... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Serbia

Zero-emission, battery-electric buses

Proterra designs battery-electric vehicles for the transit industry. Designed from the start as an exclusively electric bus, the vehicle aims to provide flexibility and performance, with Proterra claiming the greatest range of any zero-emission, battery-electric bus in its class. Made with an advanced carbon-fiber reinforced body and efficient electric drivetrain, the bus is designed to endure nearly two decades of on-road service, with minimal maintenance required.

United States

2°- Climate data

2° wrote: Our solution would allow individuals to track and search the brands they use and better understand the impact global corporations have on the environment. Furthermore, people would be able to easily contact legislators and the companies through social media, email, by phone, etc. We've created a prototype of the database we would use to launch a full-scale application using data scraped from various sources as well as apis from opensecrets. Com. For the database we've used the django rest framework, but the same concept could easily be implemented using most modern database systems... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

United States

The web platform to bring knowledge

WasteClass wrote: In europe, industrial wastes are the vast majority of waste, they follow complex chemical regulations, are expensive to dispose and most of all landfill is still a big threat for the environment. We believe in a waste market with simpler regulations, fair competition and with small companies bringing great innovation. Wasteclass is a web platform that simplifies chemical regulation making simpler and faster for a waste producer to choose the best disposal solution... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Italy

Recyclist

Recyclist wrote: Recyclist is an online marketplace where a production company can sell its excess materials and production by-products in order to save money, reduce waste going to landfills and develop new business opportunities. Materials will go to companies who will use them for producing their products. Someone's waste becomes a resource for another!.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

EcoWarriors-A-Social-Game-Challenge

Houston EcoDevelopers wrote: Game storyline: the global climate change becomes a huge problem on earth and many animals are on the edge of extinction. To prevent the mass extinction from happening, the users will play the role of ecowarriors, and each of them are assigned with a mysterious egg of an endangered animal. Each animal they are assigned will be the very last one of a species. The players will incubate each egg at the beginning stage of the game. After the players reach a certain score, the egg will reveal their assigned animal ( i. E. Penguin, dolphin, whale, polar bear.) depending on the player’s choice of challenge, a set of tasks will be shown. The tasks are daily action in a person’s life, and every completed task be tracked and converted to score... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

United States

Algae Ambulance

Algae Ambulance wrote: We providie a biocleaning process of pollutions, using. Our equipment. We offer maintanance changing cartriges to fresh biomass ones... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Moldova, Republic of

Revolutionize the access to clean energy

Semina wrote: When you think about the biggest problems of our planet. What comes into your mind? climate change? poverty? deforestation? diseases? . What if all those problems are connected. Connected via a single cause, that we pay almost no attention to. . The problem which we are speaking from, is caused by cooking over inefficient fires creating the nr. 1 leathal weapon in developing countries. . Indoor air pollution. . According to who, indoor air pollution kills nearly !4million! people every year prematurely. . The solution, super-efficient cookstoves! already exist, but the people suffering the most, simply cannot afford it. . We change that... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

EV Scholarship Challenge

MIS100 wrote: Ev scholarship challenge has two categories, which means there will be two winners. Also, the runner-up gets a prize, too!. $1500 essay category:write a maximum of 1000 words essay about the benefits of riding ev in houston. $1500 social media category:post a picture with a caption “where is ev?” with a car emoji. Post it on social media and whoever has the most “likes” within one week since the posted date wins. (hint: take a photo with celebrity, if possible. Be as creative as you can to get to reach your goal!). Make sure to make your post public, so that we can keep the count for the “likes. ” you will not get the credit, if we cannot see your post. Follow our tweeter, instagram, and facebook page to check if we got your score correctly... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

United States