Roots Reach the Water

Latest Water Benders wrote: With the motto “roots reach water! slogan, we developed the project of detecting and reducing the ayak water footprint un project on the agricultural scale of tarsus, which has a rate of 68% for irrigated agriculture, 40% for water loss and leakage, and 76% for water use in agriculture. In the project, tarsus, whose income is based on agriculture and agriculture; our main motive was to reduce the risks of producers and investors and to increase their economic predictability against a climate that would decrease rainfall and increase temperature and drought... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Turkey

Enabling greener electrical grids

Sensero wrote: Losses in the electrical power grid represent one of the biggest expenses for grid operators - nearly € 205 million yearly in norway alone. Power grid operators currently lack the information and the tools to know where these losses occur. . At the same time, 200 million sensors are being implemented in the grid and in homes all over europe, at an investment cost of € 45 billion. These sensors produce vast amounts of data which contain currently hidden and valuable information. . However, there is a huge gap in the market between the available data and the tools needed to leverage it into valuable information. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Norway

Adapta Group

Adapta Group wrote: Food and beverage multinational companies (f&bc) own between 20% to 40% of the global food supply chains, most of which use destructive and carbon positive production systems. By bundling together the best available regenerative agriculture technologies and techniques, f&bc contract our services to transform their supply chains into massive carbon sinks. We do so by helping the companies' suppliers implement regenerative agriculture practices and helping them access to credit and technology. Our service is paid by the f&bc (our client) through innovative impact investment mechanisms... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil

Electric hybrid conversion for petrol scooters

Replacing parts of petrol-fueled scooter vehicles with a battery-like conversion kit, thus allowing the scooters to become hybrid

India

Calidi: energy alternative

La Roca wrote: The geological materials remain at a stable temperature, regardless of the season or weather conditions. This geothermal stability is what allows the subsoil to be considerably cooler in summer than the outside environment, a particular case being spain at ground temperature (around 15 °) at depths of more than 5 meters is relatively high. So a heat pump extracts thermal energy from the ground in winter by transferring it to the interior, while in summer it extracts heat from the interior and returns it to the subsoil. The development of a geothermal heat pump is heat capture on one side of the circuit, to release it on the other... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Mexico

We rent out baby and children's clothing

kindby wrote: Textile waste is one of the largest contributors to climate change. The efforts to make. Second hand cool, charity stores, pop-up stores and hand-me-downs is not able to keep up with the demand created for fast fashion by the large retailers. There are solutions offered to symptoms but not the root of the problem. We are building a scalable long term solution, which empowers sustainable producers, teaches children about it and making reuse the standard by normalising the purchase behaviour of adults. Kindby is the start of this transformation. . Kindby is an online store, on which you can buy new and used as well as rent sustainably produced baby clothing and accessories... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

Treeconomy

Treeconomy wrote: We use high quality remote sensing (drone-based lidar or satellite imagery) to exactly quantify tree growth and therefore carbon captured. Land owners pay us for this service, and in return we quantify carbon sequestered on their land, package it financially, and sell it directly to companies who need to offset emissions (such as the aviation sector). We bring science and rigour to the carbon offset market, as well as smart database technology to avoid double counting. Our offset-as-a-service is entirely innovative in this space... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom

Integration of solar into microgrids using batteries

SwitchDin Pty Ltd is simplifying integration of solar and batteries into micro-grid and edge-of-grid services by using a local controller called “Droplet”. It enables site energy control, management and coordination. By connecting to a cloud platform, “StormCloud”, the individual Droplets are supported with data. Furthermore, connecting to the cloud allows individual controllers to cluster using a long-range communication system, which can help secure the service for areas not supported by cellular networks.

India

S.T.A.N.

Tio^2 wrote: A waste water treatment system that takes advantage of solar energy in order to heat a water flux taken from industrial residues, cleaning it for recycle in a sustentable way, plus, the structure used is covered in titanium oxide (tio^2) which breaks carbon dioxide molecule down into c0 and oxygen, helping the fight against air pollution in citys, specifically industries of mexico city. Water gets cleaned by passing first through an activated carbon filter, then an inverse osmosis filter, to later pass through a condensation process, and finally to a cistern, while checking and controlling the water variables through iot... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Mexico

We upcycle your old clothes

The modern fashion designer wrote: We upcycle clothes which are in the wardrobe of everybody! so, we give this piece a new life and it has not be produced a new one. In another country for instance a jean takes around 32kg co2 which our shop can reduce to only 1kg and the costumer will have out of this jean two pieces or more. What is important too - we can save so much water! included this process that we make for instance out of one jeans - two other pieces, we try to educate the people what the clothes made out of and how they were produced true a simple trick. And our system behind our tailor shop makes us unique and economical... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria