Turn waste to clean energy

Clean Planet wrote: We process different types of waste into highly flammable gas. We use the gas to generate steam for different applications. Including electricity, drying, hospital sterilizing heating and cleaning. Different waste feed stock leaves different residue. Plastic leaves nothing, rubber leaves black carbon safe material for road construction, aggro-waste like sugarcane and maize stalk leave. Char which is used to make briquettes, this is a clean fuel for cooking and barbecue application. No residue ever goes to the landfill if our innovation is implemented. No waste is transported to a landfill very far from where it was generated. We do not store waste at all. Waste will be processed to energy in our portable unit... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Kenya

Mitigation of the illegal dumping sites

CLENathon wrote: Citizens tend to dump various waste in illegal places around the city. Therefore, there is a problem regarding pollution, contamination, odour, un-used materials that they could be re-cycled (circular economy). The idea is to use nudging by placing bins or other methods with informative logos in the illegal dumping areas so citizens will be indirectly educated and separate the waste even in these areas. Therefore, the materials will be provided to the stakeholders involved as a valuable product. This solution will mitigate the waste with the potential to either establish a waste collection spot or completely remove it depending on the needs of the area... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Cyprus

Optimization of heating and cooling solutions

The innovation is an analytic tool that can be applied to Heating, Ventilation, Airconditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) systems, to detect deviations and in the end save energy. The analytics can detect performance losses in refrigeration systems and pinpoint where the deviation occurs. Either monitoring sensors are installed in combination with the analysis tool, or there are available sensors that the tool can connect to. Optimal operation and predictive maintenance can save energy and in turn reduce the need for energy production.

Sweden

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Climactiv - be active.

Climactiv - be active. wrote: Let us imagine ashanti. She wants to engage in climate action but finds it difficult to find the right way to do this. But we have the solution, by offering our holistic sustainability approach “climactiv” to ashantis employer, in our example sap (this could also be a city, university or a country). The sample sap was chosen because of their high engagement on sustainable growth of the region. This allows ashanti to collect climate points throughout her day, which she does by coming to work by bike, having a vegetarian lunch and participating in the tree planting challenge in the evening. Additionally, she can enter new challenges for other employers, which can be rated by her colleagues... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Hands On Climate - Make Your Decision

Climate Choice wrote: Our proposal is to elaborate a collection ofstriking and especially self-centered workshop situations. This package can be used by educational institutions, climate aware parents or ngos. Here are three examples to effectively raise awareness for the most important challenges presented by climate change: breakfast: style of diet, packaging, production conditions. Way to school: means of transport. School: saving energy, saving water, waste separation. Leisure time: shopping, fashion, production conditions. Grocery shopping: food items, seasonality, regionality. Night time routine: hygiene products, microplastic, save energy/water... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

The G.R.E.E.N. Kids Challenge

ClimaTech wrote: The g. R. E. E. N. Kids challenge educates pupils in topics concerning climate change and the impact of one’s own lifestyle on climate change. It animates children and their parents to take climate actions in their everyday life by showing simple solutions and more sustainable alternatives to traditional approaches. Children can participate in the challenge together with their classmates. Teachers use the provided information material to explain the challenges and their impact on climate change at school. For each challenge material with background information and further reading is provided. Pupils complete the challenges by uploading a photo to the app. The completed challenge needs to be approved by their teachers... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

Adaptive scenarios solutions

Climathon hackers wrote: To develop a software that works with a. I technology which gives accurate and reliable predicted scenarios. This program helps with decision making presenting results that shows the effectiveness of a certain crop under different climate scenarios, it also shows the crop yield assuming the 4 scenarios in the 5th assessment report of the intergovernmental panel (ipcc)... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Sudan

Virtual assistance for planning climate-friendly trips

The main goal of AiM is to reduce business trips by providing companies with a superefficient virtual assistant and more relevant information, so they would be aware of how much money, time and CO2 emissions they could save when avoiding or optimizing their meeting-trips. By using AI/machine learning, the virtual assistant becomes more and more accurate over time, knowing exactly what works best for each user, always with the sustainability criteria in mind. Business flights can either be replaced by train trips or online video meeting solutions such as Skype depending, among other factors, on the distance between the meeting participants.

Austria

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Harvesting heat from cities

Heat Harvest addresses the need for cooling in urban hot spots. The standard solution is to install air conditioning units and blow the hot air outside. This solution is not is suitable in densely populated city areas. Thus, other technical solutions are sought. Heat Harvest intends to cool pavements and building walls which are directly exposed to sunlight with water cooling lines which are directly enclosed in concrete, asphalt etc. which therefore have extremely low maintenance needs.

Austria

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Guidance for apartment seekers to minimize travel

HomeWay provides software that helps people that are looking for a new home to move closer to public transport stations and to reduce their commuting time. The innovation matches several parameters of users such as budget, daily activities and other specific requirements that can be customized to generate an optimized housing location. By using HomeWay, a home with shorter commuting distances or reduced need of a privately-owned car can easily be chosen. This would reduce emissions from urban transports and simplify urban planning and expansion of urban areas which could further reduce emissions created by mobility demands.

Austria

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