Weekly Impact Review 🌿📅 From High-Tech Toilets 🚽 🌿🚿Water-Saving Innovation to Environmental Dashboards 🌍📊
High-Tech Toilets to Monitor Your Health 🚽💡
Throne, an American startup, developed a toilet accessory that analyzes waste using AI. The collected data helps detect digestive disorders and is accessible through an app. The device ensures user privacy by recording only the toilet bowl’s contents.
Scott Hickle 🚽Timothy Blumberg
Closed-Circuit Shower 🚿♻️
IKEA and Flow Loop have collaborated to create a closed-circuit shower system that reduces water consumption by 80%. Used water is recovered, filtered, and purified for immediate reuse. This device can be integrated into existing showers without major renovations, also cutting energy consumption for heating water, in line with IKEA’s commitment to sustainability.
Troels Grene Peter Düring Jensen Brian Ottar Olsen Tamara Pérez Guillemette
A New Renewable Energy Source Emerges in France 🌊⚡
The world’s first osmotic power plant will soon start operations in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, France. Developed by Sweetch Energy in collaboration with EDF and other partners, this plant generates electricity by harnessing the natural energy from the mixing of river and seawater. It promises to deliver up to 4 TWh annually, enough to power around 2 million homes.
Nicolas Heuzé Pascal Le Melinaire Stephane Charrieau Matthieu BOSSUTBruno Mottet
Endrotek Raises Funds for Environmental Dashboard 🌍📊
Endrotek, a startup from France, has developed a range of digital tools for monitoring environmental impact, including waste and energy management systems. Their key product, Opteam Compass, integrates various environmental data to help companies reduce costs and environmental impact, targeting sectors like industry and logistics.
Yann LE LOUARN
Miniature Energy Storage Innovation ⚡🔋
Voltify - Hileores, a startup born from research at IEMN in France, is developing ultra-miniature energy storage components. These components, small enough to fit into medical devices and implants, are designed to store high amounts of energy efficiently. The technology, using a 3D structure of micro-tubes, offers a larger energy storage surface while maintaining a compact size.
Maxime Hallot Kévin ROBERT
Green Fuel Production from Sugar Plant Emissions 🚢🌿
Verso Energy plans to build a facility in Aisne, France, to produce renewable fuel from CO2 emissions of a local sugar refinery and starch plant. The project, named OrCHyDé, will produce “e-methanol” using green hydrogen and carbon capture from biomass.
Antoine Huard Arthur Auxenfants Romain VERDIER Guillaume Courtin Eva Aigueperse
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