Industry 2014
How can industry innovate to meet the climate challenge and drive sustainable growth?
Industry is the key contributor to economic growth and prosperity, and is also a leading global source of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The International Energy Agency estimates that to meet global GHG reduction goals by 2050, a full quarter of all reductions need to come from the industrial sector. This contest seeks innovative, well-described, actionable solutions that will enable continued global economic growth, while achieving major emission reductions in the industrial sector in the coming decades.
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Proposals
Do you ever drive along the highway and wonder why we preserve swathes of empty space? I do too. So many large structures unused.
Interactions for real time tracking and true integration are critical to influence industrial changes necessary for GHG reductions
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags can be used to measure the amount of embodied energy flow throughout the supply chain
Small businesses and consumer collaboration to create new products and services that tackle climate change and create sustainable growth
Amazon sets up opportunities to cut down on individual deliveries, instead combines deliveries to people who live close to each other
Favorable in-store product placement, in-exchange for advances in energy efficiency.
Industry will probably need fossil/bio-fuels for decades. HCCAS converts resulting CO2 to O2 AND makes food/biofuel.
Thermal energy & kinetic energy conversion of the Gulfstream to lower Co2 GHG emissions anywhere between 300ppm/350 ppm in 20 years.
Prove by calculate absorbCO2/creatO2 of plants before/after we build buildings/industrial area . Prove environmental laws is wrong by data .
Moving the entire industrial sector over to carbon negitive fuel can be largely achieved within 10-20 years. This proposal offers one path.
Molecular Imprinted Polymers present a unique oppurtunity to make cost effective materials that selectivly bind to and filter pollutants.