This section contains a selection of potential ideas relating to the climate. The ideas range from areas
where a gap in the market exists, to ideas where there is a definite business opportunity. There are still more
ideas to be added, so this section will evolve over time. This is also an early version - I have extensive notes
on many of these ideas, and would like to add more details on the more fully-developed concepts where I have them.
In the mean time, if you are interested in a particular idea, get in contact, either via email
or Twitter, and I'll be more than happy to provide some extra detail.
There are a number of areas that have huge potential, but which I haven't explored in depth. These include:
- Alternative fuels - biofuels, 'clean' fuels, fuels from DAC
- Urban efficiency
- Tracking and management of forests and the carbon they contain
- Reducing inefficiency and waste in the building industry
- Incentivising better soil management and lower fertiliser usage
- Electric and hybrid aircraft
- Incentivising sharing of private data between companies in industries for mutual benefit
- Incentivising open research and data on the climate and environment
- Localised manufacturing
- 3D printing to reduce material use and simplify manfucture of certain goods
Travel Carbon
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The one stop shop for calculating carbon emissions from travelling by any mode of transport
Low Carbon Journey Planner
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Plan a journey based not only on price, but on environmental impact
The One Carbon Offset Platform to Rule them all
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Unifying and simplifying the complex mess that is carbon offsets and credits.
Blockchain tracking of HFCs
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Tracking and removing HFCs safely is one of the biggest single climate solutions there is.
Modular Mass-timber buildings
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Combining modular mass timber buildings with customisation to make cheap, custom buildings that sequester carbon.
Low-carbon concrete
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Reducing the carbon impact of one of the most widely used building materials on the planet.
Building Automation
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Controlling buildings' heating, cooling and more via an automated system can yield big gains in efficiency.
Optimising Wind Turbine design using ML
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Using deep learning and ML to reduce the computational cost of modelling wind turbine blades.
Recycling/Recyclable wind turbine blades
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The composite materials used for modern wind turbine blades are not recyclable, resulting in an end-of-life waste issue.
Modular wind turbines
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Wind turbines are so large now that shipping is a serious logistical concern. Modular turbines could be a solution.
Grid Storage Standard
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An open-source standard for building efficient and safe grid-scale storage systems.
2nd Life Batteries
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Processing and reusing EV batteries in storage and other use cases.
Hot-swap batteries for vehicles
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Hot-swap batteries for vehicles with high uptime requirements, such as agricultural machinery.
Dairy-free milk and cheese
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The 'Impossible Foods' approach applied to dairy products
Green Schedulers
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Smart scheduling offsets compute jobs to times and locations with more renewable energy.
Automatically Identify inefficiencies in Cloud setups
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A tool to monitor your cloud setup, and identify where resources are being paid for but not used, or data not accessed.
Robotic sorting of recycling
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Using computer vision and ML to bring recycling sorting into the 21st century.
Standardised Reusable Coffee Cups
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A standard model of reusable coffee cup with a deposit fee, similar to the German Pfand model for bottles.
Reusable delivery packaging
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Think amazon parcels, but reusable.
UCCs (Urban Consolidation Centres)
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A modular system to reduce heavy goods traffic into city centres through the use of logistics centres.
Truck load matching
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Offer cheap rates for trucks returning from deliveries, to avoid empty routing.
Multi-modal cargo
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Integrating all freight modalities to provide the cheapest and lowest-carbon way to ship cargo.
Fuel from plastic
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Breaking down waste plastic into fuels to both prevent landfill waste and reduce the carbon impact of fuel.
Electric Truck Charging
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As trucking gradually moves over to electric power, there's a massive shortfall in EV chargers for trucking.
Climate Risk
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Become the single main provider of climate risk data.
Tech platform for renewable energy
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Facilitating access to rooftop solar, battery storage, heat pumps and other low-carbon technologies.
EV buying service
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A software platform to make the experience of buying an EV easier and smoother.
Climate Data Platform
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A single API to the world's climate and environmental data.
Kaggle for Climate
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Kaggle competitions to solve some of the big unanswered questions relating to climate change and the environment.