Touch-free shower technology

Sh2ower wrote: Sh2ower is designed to prevent unreasonable water draining. It senses when you are under it and lets the water flow on you. Besides, it saves energy used for heating and it also reduces your bills. . Everybody takes shower. In apartments, villas, dorms and especially in hostels and hotels which is our initial market. If for example all hotels in the us switch to sh2ower, it will save them $1b every year. . How it works. Simply remove the old head and install sh2ower and you are ready to go. If you step aside for any reason like soaping, shampooing or taking a selfie it automatically stops the stream. To warn you that the water is too hot it also automatically stops water at 50 degrees celsius. Batteries are recharged as the water runs... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan

YVY Brasil

YVY Brasil wrote: 90%+ of usual home cleaning products are actually water ! the remaining 5-10% are petrochemical, chlorine and phosphates. Why do they keep moving millions of tons of water around ? why using an enormous amount of plastic bottles to pack all this water ? our oceans know where this sad story will finish up. Yvy (which means soil/land in tupi-guarany, the language of most important native indigenous tribe in brazil) was created to break up this insane chain and disrupt this market. We use only natural/vegetable ingredients in our formulas ! yvy developed small recyclable plastic capsules to carry on our super concentrated formulas reducing by 2/3 the amount of plastic used compared to the current competitors... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil

Intelligent heating and cooling for buildings

Henan Runheng Energy Maganement Co., LTD have developed intelligent heating and cooling technology for building by recharging shallow geothermal energy in the same well. The company claims that their technology matches the amount of effluent to backwater and reaches adequate heat exchange between backwater and soil. This greatly improves the efficiency of the heat pump unit. In the full closed cycle, water remains unpolluted. Furthermore, the technology overcomes the defect of water heat pump recharging in multiple wells. It solves the problem of the heat source well blockage and declining water levels.

China

Flowmetrics

Flowmetrics wrote: Flowmetrics’ dynamic flood flow management helps cities to tackle urban flooding in a way that is intelligent, cost-effective and citizen-inclusive. The tool identifies urban flood risk hotspots and nearby areas that can withstand a lot of water, and quantifies their absorption capacity by using a distributed network of sensors as well as satellite imagery wherever possible. During a flood, highly impacted areas are connected with the identified absorbing areas by using mobile infrastructure that can easily be put in place by citizens and professionals... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Use no-longer-usable textiles

Back to life wrote: People tend to buy new clothes, wear it for some time until it becomes used. Then they either. Collect it in their closets or just throw away into the dump and buy new one. So this circle goes. Again and again. Our idea is to collect already used textile to create new unique products (clothes, accessories). This is one of the ways how we could reduce the amount of textile in landfills and show that even old fabric can be brought back to life again... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Lithuania

SR BIN

SR BIN wrote: From plastic, polythene to metal and even paper the fmcg sector produces far more packaging than is currently being recycled. Due to complex layering, recyclers are limited in their capacity to recycle while consumers fail to support recycling due to lack of infrastructure. Encore offers both the technology, tools and software to connect all these players and bring them on to a common stage by giving packaging waste a new face technology that converts it back to pack, bottle or can. We offer the technology as well as tools such as intelligent waste collection bins and software for brands and recyclers to re-calibrate their current manufacturing process to convert waste back into standardized raw materials... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Sri Lanka

Cold-rolled ribbed steel bar with high ductility

Anyang Heli Techtronic Metallurgy New Technology Co., Ltd have developed cold-rolled ribbed steel bar with high ductility. It combines several manufacturing techniques to enhance the strength of steel bar, and then improves its ductility with heat treatment process to eliminate residual stress and repair the microstructure defects. The company claims that, compared to traditional hot-rolled technique, their technology saves about 40% of energy, as well as alloy materials, such as vanadium nitrogen, manganese silicon. Furthermore, to produce a ton of steel with their technology could save 130 kwh of power, as well as 9.3 kg standard coal, and cost near zero amount of water.

China

Close The Gap

Close The Gap wrote: Merging a great amount of data sets from several sources (such as uber, destatis, fixmyberlin, citylab berlin and many more) we created the berlin gap-closer, which deals with the missing information transparency on berlin's biking infrastructure. This allows policy and decision makers to foresee the effects of their decisions: reduction of co2 emissions, changes in traffic and congestion as well as impacts on cyclist safety to create a more sustainable and safe mobility environment... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Conversion of waste plastics into liquid

PlastoFuel wrote: End of life plastics (elp) consist of plastics that cannot be easily or economically recycled. Elp is often landfilled, cauterized, extruded for cost or drained illegally. As a result of these issues, plastic pollution is obstructing our planet. Colossal plastic gyres now exist in everywhere, poisoning the surrounding and generating serious risk to human and ecosystem health. Proper management of elp can reduce litter and protect environment. Plastofuel company’s technology introduces accessible solutions by producing synthetic fuels from waste plastics. Our company’s technology allows us to reduce landfill volume. Feedstock of plastofuel company is made out of plastics with no market or commercial demand... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan

TETRA Wave Power

TETRA Wave Power wrote: Tetra wave power is a new and revolutionary concept for converting the energy in waves into electricity. The modular and robust design allows for higher efficiency and lower cost. In addition to replacing fossil fuels, tetra wave power serves as platform for other applications, contributing to a sustainable development of the ocean space... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Norway