Cousing

Cousing wrote: The idea is a shared work and living space to reduce the climate impact from the building sector. This will lead to: decrease in amount of rent. Less loneliness increasing sense of community. Reduced climate and environmental impact. Of course people are challenged to accept this kind of housing but it is worth trying... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Norway

Smart waste collection system

WASCO wrote: Wasco offers an enterprise approach to smart, connected waste management deployments. Your local account representative will work with you to evaluate your current waste management situation by conducting an assessment of your waste and recycling footprint, costs, and drivers to build out a wasco smart waste collection system customized to your facility and needs. Wasco smart waste collection system provides modern solution and green solution for traditional waste collection systems. Wasco wireless sensors can measure the garbage bin fill level instantaneously and send this information to cloud using iot technology. These collected information from all over the city is processed to get the efficient daily collection routes... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan

CowStraw laddu for more milk and less methane

Chemlife wrote: Chemlife's cowstraw laddu is nutritious tasty dish (laddu) for dairy cattle to increase the milk yield and enhance profit to farmers. The market for this type of product in developing countries is quiet big as average milk yield of crossbred cows is significantly less compared to those in developed part of the world indicating possible nutritional gap. Our attempt is to fill this gap through cowstraw laddu made out of low cost paddy straw which is considered as agricultural waste, through a novel biotransformation process... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Zinc ion battery

Cost efficient, eco-friendly, robust batteries that power renewable energy/micro-grid, telecom towers & electric vehicles. Our first invention is a ‘ZincGel® battery’, that combines innovation in electrolyte, democratized material and electrode design, leading to breakthrough in dnergy density, power density and energy efficiency at a very cost-effective end user price. We have modified 150 year old zinc and Manganese-Dioxide chemistry to cater to the current energy storage opportunities. Our plan is to prove ZincGel battery’s strength in a few business cases by running small scale pilots. This data will establish our credibility and strength over other competition.

India

Nabosol - Cosharing of roofs for solar panels

Nabosol wrote: Our idea is to bring together homeowners with roofs usable for pv-panel installation, with other homeowners or companies without available roof space, but willingness to invest in renewable energy. The solution includes installation of batteries to help with the flexibility of the energy system. Each private actors will get their part of share as energy price reduction, and the surplus energy will be stored in batteries and sold back to the grid when it`s profitable... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Norway

Plant based energy milk

Otmilk wrote: Considering expected organic milk source shortage without chemicals due to global population growth in coming five years we have found and prepared the product for milk drinkers (also for vegans; allergic people, elderly and as an energy drink for sportspeople) – otmilk: thoroughly providing proteins and vitamins including myriad other healthy ingredients. Together with characteristics dairy milk our product has its special and crucial features and properties for human body health and, in additions, our product is considered to be consumable for children of all ages of what providing products are quite limited. Containing nuts and seeds otmilk doesn’t originate lactose, is not allergic like dairy-milk, doesn’t elaborate cholesterol... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan

Fruges

Fruges wrote: Fruges product taaza grow seeds treated with bio-fertilizer and bio-pesticides coated with phyto-polymers. It allows farmers to adopt organic farming fertilizing their crop, protects from any insect or disease with 10% to 50% less water. Taazagrow cuts the energy and transportation cost required to manufacture and deliver huge quantity of fertilizer and pesticides used for conventional farming. Saving approximately 100% of the carbon emitted during the whole production and supply chain. In addition of organic matter in soil by decomposing the organic waste, it restores natural soil fertility, kills harmful microbes and degrade toxic organic chemicals. This eventually improves crop production by 20-30%... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Pakistan

Small scale low head vortex hydro power

In order to provide off-grid locations with stable electric power, Stallion Vortex has developed a small-scale hydropower plant. The solution utilizes the principle of creating a vortex to extract energy from water streams. It can operate with a high efficiency with a height difference of the water stream of 5 meter, making it viable in many locations with limited access to larger sources of water. According to the company, their product requires minimal maintenance after installation, and it require little to no manual control to function to its full potential.

India

Community Based Solar Powered Thermal

Thermal Thieves wrote: Active solar water heat storage systems offer a viable way to supplement current energy intensive methods of generating space heating and hot water. There are solar panel technologies designed for the purposes of collecting thermal energy from the sun and transferring it to a closed loop heating system. This on site creation and storage of thermal energy at the source eliminates the infrastructure and inefficiencies inherent in district heating systems supplied by offsite power generators. In addition to personal unit supplies, we propose a community storage system that operates on a separate closed loop and is energized once personal systems have reached capacity... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Norway

Smart anti-air polluting system

SAPS- Smart Anti Air Pollution system wrote: Saps is a special air cleaning/filtering system inside that we plan to install inside streetlights. Saps can clean air from co2, nitrous oxides (no, no2 etc), fine and coarse dust particles, and other harmful/toxic gases. The word smart stands for two things: that our product will feature a various sensors that will not only detect air pollution level regularly and send live data about the city's or district's air pollution level to people and to our purposes, but also will turn on and off the street light lamp according to ambient light(day/night), and that the machine will adjust its cleaning speed according to the pollution level of the area that it is located... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan