Biofuels from Seaweed

Tide 2 Tank wrote: Tide 2 tank is a group of engineers seeking to establish large scale kelp farming on the coastal waters of south australia in order to provide a carbon neutral and cost competitive biomass that can be refined into biofuels. As a byproduct of this the biomass can be sold to a large number of markets for various product uses. The aqua farms themselves sequesters carbon from the ocean and help rehabilitate used fisheries an polluted waters... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Australia

MagnoTherm Solutions GmbH

MagnoTherm Solutions GmbH wrote: Roughly 20% of the world's electrical energy is used for cooling. Moreover, most cooling gases used as refrigerants have a global warming potential up to 4,000 higher than co2. Alternatives are inefficient and explosive or toxic. Magnetic cooling uses a special metal which heats up and cools down by magnetizing and demagnetizing it. With a higher energy efficiency of up to 40% compared to the best gas compressor available, this technology has the potential to revolutionize the way we cool down our medicine, food, and premises. The overall cooling sector adds up to 300 bn us-dollar in turnover per year. Without using any harmful or problematic gases, magnetic cooling is low-maintenance, safe, and environmentally-friendly... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Germany

Solar energy harvesting in Chile's desert

The Atacama Desert, located in northern part of Chile, has special conditions that need the development of technologies to allow an efficient solar energy generation. The area presents an average direct global radiation level of 3.500 kWh/m² per annum and an horizontal global radiation level of 2.500 kWh/m² per annum, one of the highest in the world. The solution is a new optimal solar technology to be used in the Atacama Desert. The development includes new materials to resist high radiation levels, a bifacial photovoltaic panel to take advantage of the radiation and the ground and new methods for operation and maintenance considering the lack of water in the desert.

Chile

FoodAbdruck

Zero2 wrote: Foodabdruck provides a solution to people who want to reduce their carbon emissions generated by their shopping behaviour. It will evalute based on your food choices, how much co2-emission was needed to produce that product. It will than suggest environmental friedlier alternatives and therefore decrease your carbon foodprint. Even so this might be small values in the beginning, summed up over the years it will have a big impact.  . In addition, we used web scraping to extract text data from recipes to identify the needed incredients. We calculated the amount of each item and computed the corresponding c02 equivalent... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Zero emission taxi-sharing

rentE wrote: Private hire taxis are one of the main contributors to city centre air pollution. Operating costs for these taxis are also extremely high, especially for the 55% of uk uber drivers who work less than 30 hours a week. . Rente solves both of these problems, by offering europe's first fully inclusive, fully electric rental service for taxi drivers. The cars are charged using 100% renewable electricity from our own rapid chargers. This coupled with car sharing allows rente to offer rentals under half the price of the competition. . Drivers simply choose their weekly package, book their hours and use our app to unlock the vehicles. With partnerships already established with uber and byd, rente launched in birmingham in september... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom

Enabling farmers in developing countries

Goats for Water wrote: Goats for water provides alternative financing mechanisms enabling cash-poor smallholder farmers to buy essential household & farming assets such as solar water-pumps, solar home systems and fertlizers. Households pay for the products with goats which uptrade then sells for a profit. Most rural communities lack cash to buy assets that meet their basic needs. Gfw has successfully launched in pakistan serving 7,000 farmers with an 11-person team. Their goat financing mechanism is in place. 16. Rural communities, where solar water pumps now bring water to 22,400 people. They have introduced a goats for solar model, where households can finance purchases of solar home systems, solar tvs and radios with goats... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Pakistan

Fossil Free Karlsruhe

Fossil Free Karlsruhe wrote: Our project result for inspection including "source files" and used and self-created assets is in the official google drive of climathon mannheim, which has to be made accessible by jascha quintern for the jury. Https://drive. Google. Com/drive/folders/1nzpyoz-vg4a69zeu1yjfmr2ssize6l2gdirectory path: climathon > challenge-energy-fossilfree > *the used assets to be declared are indicated in the credits of the result video. The following assets have been purchased and are owned by jörg osarek, artist name chuck ian gordon (team member), which does not need to be mentioned in official credits: carwrecked. Blend (from blender market) and p1_cabrio_fbx_file_gltf. Zip (fromsketchfab... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Cost effective desalination of seawater

Ocean Oasis wrote: Water scarcity is a growing challenge in a large part of the world. Desalination of seawater is an energy intensive process and in coastline areas where water scarcity coincides with a significant wave climate, desalination of seawater is an attractive application for utilisation of wave energy. . The ocean oasis desalination device uses wave energy directly to desalinate seawater without going via the production of electricity. It is estimated that the ocean oasis device can deliver water to shore at a cost of 0. 9 usd/m3 and 0. 5 usd/m3 for a nw arica and a south africa wave environment respectively. . The next step in the development of the concept is a small scale demonstration project... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Norway

Banco de Áreas Verdes (Green Assets Platform)

Banco de Áreas Verdes (Green Assets Platform) wrote: We are an online platform where more than 130 rural real estates with preserved forests in brazil (6 billion square meters) are identified and presented (a) as a compensation product which can be bought by actors who are bound to compensate due to requirements resulting from an environmental licensing proceeding or due to a repressive determination arising from an administrative or judicial enforcement proceeding, and/or (b) as a potential green asset which can be monetized as an environmental service. All the areas registered on the platform have been previously subject to a preliminary legal audit. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil

Helping low income farmers

Intel Inside wrote: If you life in a region with extreme water scarcity you have to sometimes decide where to use your water effectively. To gather all this information and give tips where to water, we developed an iot sensor kit, an app for smartphones and a cloud backend with an analysis algorithm. The farmer uses the portable sensorpack to take multiple measurements of the soil, air and light in his field. These are send to our server via his/her smartphone, where we use this and additional weather data to calculate a heatmap. This heatmap is displayed in the app where it gives recommendation where to irrigate for the maximum yield. Https://gitlab. Com/waterpriogroup/water-prio/tree/master.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany