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

Insect-based protein for aqua feed

Hexafly is developing new material sources for the aqua feed, chitin and plant nutrition industries from the sustainable farming of insects. Chitin is a high-value bio-polymer with many uses in medicine, cosmetics and as a food additive. In the next few years, Hexafly predicts that the exponential increase in demand for fish food will far exceed supply. Industry will not be able to meet this demand due to declining wild fish stocks, stricter fishing quotas and an increase in material costs. The aim of the innovation is to bring an insect farming revolution to the world and find smart ways to feed the planet.

Ireland

Modular interior gardening system

Hiio wrote: Hiio is the world’s first smart modular interior gardening system that integrates an environmental monitoring system in a piece of functional art - the lego of indoor gardening. The business model is based on the sale of our smart fully autonomous pots and a subscription model to compatible soil containers, nutrients and seed capsules - easy and clean "nespresso capsules" for home agriculture... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

Hike&Bike

Hike&Bike wrote: Hike&bike provides a solution to the current nature mobility problem where the trails are scattered between many different platforms and provide only part of the information needed for a great hike or a bike ride. The solution would unite the currently available routes in a single user and mobile-friendly plugin/app, which allows the user to select their preferred difficulty level, mobility solution, read and leave reviews. The idea also relates to the current challenges faced by the cēsis city where the city center is poorly connected with its periphery and thereby it is a challenge to reach some of it's best-known nature tourism spots... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Latvia

Clean energy to emerging countries

hiLyte wrote: In emerging countries, one billion people do not have access to electricity and spend up to 30% of their wages to light up and charge their phones. Most of sub-saharan african people own a phone but need to go back to town to charge it. Hilyte develops an iron battery based on a model of consumables to replace regularly (iron, paper, and iron salt), that enables people to get light and charge a phone. Our solution is cheap and nontoxic, which allows to operate small electronic devices (led, phone charger, etc . ). After inserting the consumables, they get discharged and the end solution can be dumped on the ground without any harm for the environment... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Switzerland

Biomass combustion for heating and cooking

The population in the Himalayas largely base their heating on coal or wood, which is problematic due to deforestation and air pollution among other things. In addition to having using several techniques for improving the efficiency (such as pre-heat airflow channels and bell-effect heat trapping), The Rocket stove has a secondary combustion chamber where unburnt material is used to provide otherwise lost heating energy, which reduces fuel demand by 50% and smoke pollution by approximately 90%.

India

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HomeShield

HomeShield wrote: Natural disasters and climate change have a catastrophic impact on infrastructure, economy, society and human lives. Without defining a building’s resilience factor and conducting a risk assessment, property owners are unaware of the natural disasters’ risk and unprepared to face it. Homeshield e-platform helps in rating the property's vulnerability (or resistance) towards natural disasters. Feeding with data the e-platform will a)result in a property’s risk percentage as well as b)provide a way to reduce risk and damage in the event of natural disaster, speed up recovery and potentially obtain insurance cover more easily and affordably... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Cyprus

Apparel as outdoor experience services

The current short average life time of clothes and other apparel causes significant environmental damage as the production process results in significant emissions. One solution of this is to maximize the lifetime, eliminating the production need. Based on this, Houdini has developed concept based on sharing, reusing and renting apparel. To make sure their products have several owers and long life times, they have clothing repair infrastructure as part of the solution. The rental services also allows customers to have flexible state of the art clothing options. Lastly, the solution also includes locations where users can buy and sell products, resulting in less consumption.

Sweden

EcoWarriors-A-Social-Game-Challenge

Houston EcoDevelopers wrote: Game storyline: the global climate change becomes a huge problem on earth and many animals are on the edge of extinction. To prevent the mass extinction from happening, the users will play the role of ecowarriors, and each of them are assigned with a mysterious egg of an endangered animal. Each animal they are assigned will be the very last one of a species. The players will incubate each egg at the beginning stage of the game. After the players reach a certain score, the egg will reveal their assigned animal ( i. E. Penguin, dolphin, whale, polar bear.) depending on the player’s choice of challenge, a set of tasks will be shown. The tasks are daily action in a person’s life, and every completed task be tracked and converted to score... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

United States

Hover Rail

Hover Rail wrote: In contrary to conventional shunting where rail vehicles are moved by locomotives, we introduce an idea that allows the complete elimination of locomotives at shunting stations. This is how it works: dynamic shuttle transport of all rail vehicles as well as rail segments on platforms. Movement through magnetic levitation technology powered by green electricity. Fully automated operation controlled by ai to reduce distances and time consumption. Storage on a second level to reduce space and secure the rolling stock from weather impacts. This concept allows shunting operations to be: free of emissions. Free of wear. Durable. Secure for workers... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria