ORTO - Ocean Reef-Tower Oases

Sea Harmony Ltd wrote: We have developed a revolutionary aquaculture technology for the first time, combining all of the positive ecological benefits of the most effective man made reef structures. Our mussel reefs turn the ocean’s biggest problem – organic pollution into a sustainable business using unlimited resource for food production. Yet, the most important thing is that they recover the health of damaged coastal areas (more than 8 000 0000 km2 of certified “dead zones” !), by restoring their food chain – mussels, shrimp and fish (highly demanded market products)... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Bulgaria

Green Plastics

Green Plastics wrote: We collect waste plastic materials from individuals in the communities in exchange for cash. We will communicate with these individuals through our ap where they will tell us their address and take a picture of their collection. Though this we create a source of income for the old ,disabled and unemployed. We will then sell the plastic bottles we accumulated to plastic recycling companies/projects . The rest of the plastics will go to our factories where they will be reinforced using pyloritic liquifaction and mixed with molten zinc to make the plastic stronger. We will then turn the 'new' plastic into plastic building materials which are stronger to construction companies at a much lower price ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

South Africa

Organic flow batteries

CMBlu Energy AG develop large-scale organic flow batteries for electrical grids. Their energy storage systems are based on renewable resources as a key technology for the energy transition and enable nationwide grid infrastructure for electromobility. The organic electrolytes are produced from the natural source lignin, which is available in almost unlimited amounts in the pulp and paper industry. Lignin derivates are obtained very cost- effective from waste streams of existing mills. They claim that their technology enables storage capacities of 1250 GWh every year only using existing infrastructure

Germany

Consider your consequences

LoRaWahn wrote: We created an app which allows the user to access all this data and to get push up notification if he does something good. Also the goal is to start to sensitize the people to know what impact every decision can have. This project only started with lorawan sensors which can controll gas, water and electricity, but it easily can be enhanced with a farm of sensors for each person. All this is achieved by telling the user how great it is what he does, and that every little bit of change is a good change. Https://deploy. Dlw2f3bpbe2qd. Amplifyapp. Com/.  this is the a webapp optimzied for mobilephones, to show the possibilities of the lorawan technology.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Biofuels from Seaweed

Tide 2 Tank wrote: Tide 2 tank is a group of engineers seeking to establish large scale kelp farming on the coastal waters of south australia in order to provide a carbon neutral and cost competitive biomass that can be refined into biofuels. As a byproduct of this the biomass can be sold to a large number of markets for various product uses. The aqua farms themselves sequesters carbon from the ocean and help rehabilitate used fisheries an polluted waters... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Australia

MagnoTherm Solutions GmbH

MagnoTherm Solutions GmbH wrote: Roughly 20% of the world's electrical energy is used for cooling. Moreover, most cooling gases used as refrigerants have a global warming potential up to 4,000 higher than co2. Alternatives are inefficient and explosive or toxic. Magnetic cooling uses a special metal which heats up and cools down by magnetizing and demagnetizing it. With a higher energy efficiency of up to 40% compared to the best gas compressor available, this technology has the potential to revolutionize the way we cool down our medicine, food, and premises. The overall cooling sector adds up to 300 bn us-dollar in turnover per year. Without using any harmful or problematic gases, magnetic cooling is low-maintenance, safe, and environmentally-friendly... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Germany

Solar energy harvesting in Chile's desert

The Atacama Desert, located in northern part of Chile, has special conditions that need the development of technologies to allow an efficient solar energy generation. The area presents an average direct global radiation level of 3.500 kWh/m² per annum and an horizontal global radiation level of 2.500 kWh/m² per annum, one of the highest in the world. The solution is a new optimal solar technology to be used in the Atacama Desert. The development includes new materials to resist high radiation levels, a bifacial photovoltaic panel to take advantage of the radiation and the ground and new methods for operation and maintenance considering the lack of water in the desert.

Chile

FoodAbdruck

Zero2 wrote: Foodabdruck provides a solution to people who want to reduce their carbon emissions generated by their shopping behaviour. It will evalute based on your food choices, how much co2-emission was needed to produce that product. It will than suggest environmental friedlier alternatives and therefore decrease your carbon foodprint. Even so this might be small values in the beginning, summed up over the years it will have a big impact.  . In addition, we used web scraping to extract text data from recipes to identify the needed incredients. We calculated the amount of each item and computed the corresponding c02 equivalent... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Zero emission taxi-sharing

rentE wrote: Private hire taxis are one of the main contributors to city centre air pollution. Operating costs for these taxis are also extremely high, especially for the 55% of uk uber drivers who work less than 30 hours a week. . Rente solves both of these problems, by offering europe's first fully inclusive, fully electric rental service for taxi drivers. The cars are charged using 100% renewable electricity from our own rapid chargers. This coupled with car sharing allows rente to offer rentals under half the price of the competition. . Drivers simply choose their weekly package, book their hours and use our app to unlock the vehicles. With partnerships already established with uber and byd, rente launched in birmingham in september... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom

Enabling farmers in developing countries

Goats for Water wrote: Goats for water provides alternative financing mechanisms enabling cash-poor smallholder farmers to buy essential household & farming assets such as solar water-pumps, solar home systems and fertlizers. Households pay for the products with goats which uptrade then sells for a profit. Most rural communities lack cash to buy assets that meet their basic needs. Gfw has successfully launched in pakistan serving 7,000 farmers with an 11-person team. Their goat financing mechanism is in place. 16. Rural communities, where solar water pumps now bring water to 22,400 people. They have introduced a goats for solar model, where households can finance purchases of solar home systems, solar tvs and radios with goats... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Pakistan