Clean technology as a reason for optimism

Clintec bulls are confident that humanity will implement clean technologies and avoid the effects of climate change. In response, climate bears sigh that nothing will save the planet. We all have stakes in this dispute. But let's be optimistic.





The sparkling roofs of solar cars. Giant wind turbines challenging all the Don Quixotes of the planet. Planes fed with vegetable oil. Tidal power plants that curbed the energy of the Earth's motion. Until a few decades ago, clean technology seemed like a fantasy, a ticket to the future. Now this is the vector of development of the global economy. And what is nice is that Russia does not stand by.

Sergey Arkhipov, Managing Director of Cleantech Russia, an industry organization that finds and supports clean technology developers across Russia, explains the growing interest in the topic: “Cleantech is a routine systematic effort to improve existing technologies related to energy consumption and environmental impact.” This work has been, is and will continue to be done by engineers around the world. The economic basis of these developments is the desire to reduce costs, energy consumption, harmful emissions and negative impact on the environment. The field of clean technologies is subject to factors that are key to all technological progress, so we can say that cleantech is progress.”

This year, the Cleantech Russia team began supervising the clean technologies direction of the GenerationS federal competition of technological start-ups organized by the Russian Venture Company and the Center for Innovative Development of Moscow. Three hundred applications were submitted from all over the country. Some teams spent twenty years developing their own technologies before they had a real industry platform where it became possible to express themselves and their project.

This year, we, in cooperation with Cleantech Russia, for the first time singled out green technologies as a separate branch of GenerationS. We are glad that since the first year, this track has collected so many worthy projects, which, I hope, will grow in companies that are interesting to investors and in demand by the market, said Gulnara Bikkulova, Director of the Department of Innovative Markets, member of the Board of RVC.

In June, within the framework of the Startup Village in Skolkovo, ten finalists were selected from three hundred projects, who during the summer passed the KMB (young business course) and are now ready to present their projects to Russian and foreign investors. Each of these technologies is unique in its own way and, most importantly, is in demand in the market.

1. The NanoServ project team is developing biotechnology for sludge and scale purification, which can be used in industrial enterprises, boiler houses, thermal networks and not only. Already, developers have a number of large orders, and Forbes Woman magazine named NanoServ one of the most interesting women’s startups of 2014.

2. Selective ion exchange materials Axionit is an inexpensive way to extract expensive particles of rare and precious metals from wastewater and other solutions.

3. GreenDrive is installed on the car engine, helps to save fuel by 5-10% and prolongs the engine life. The volume of exhaust gases is reduced by 30-50%, which is significant for the city.

4. The BioMicroGeli project team develops effective means for cleaning water, soil and hard surfaces from oil, oils and metal ions. Under the action of microgels, hydrocarbons collect in flakes that can easily be removed from the surface of the water.

5. The Aerogreen turbodynamic wind turbine solves the problems of traditional wind turbines: it reduces capital costs for installation and operation costs, does not need wind orientation systems, operates in adverse weather conditions. In addition, it creates less noise and does not pose a danger to birds.

6. The same problems solve wind turbine type Optiflame. You can install it on the roof of your house yourself.

7. The WiseSoil feedstock preparation device for biogas plants helps to double the processing of raw materials and increase the economic efficiency of the process and, in addition, obtain fertilizers of higher quality.

8. The anti-corrosion composition “Zinoferr” fights against metal corrosion using the so-called “cold galvanizing”. It combines the advantages of the barrier method of protection against corrosion (special paint coatings) and the method of hot galvanizing.

9. Polymer materials for agriculture AquaAgroSorb helps to cope with the problem of irrigation in dry regions. Unlike existing developments, they work at elevated temperatures and do not affect the composition of soil solutions and the chemical composition of plants.

10. The technology of laser ignition of liquid rocket engines "Spectralizer" allows you to make the stages of the launch vehicle returnable, reduce the cost of developing rocket engines, simplify their maintenance and increase reliability. This is a new step in the development of astrophysics.

On October 13, three winners will be announced, who will report on their successes at the Open Innovations forum in Moscow. At the end of October, all ten finalists will travel to Finland, where they will not only gain experience from Finnish colleagues, communicate with entrepreneurs and industry investors, but also attend one of the most serious investment events in the field of clean technologies in Europe - Cleantech Venture Day in Lahti. The top three projects will then go to seek investors and customers for the Cleantech Open Global Forum, which will take place on November 12-13 in San Francisco.

So now Russian techno-optimists have another reason to rejoice. The direction of Cleantech in the framework of the GenerationS competition will continue to develop, which means that clean technologies in our country received an additional incentive for growth. And that's nice.

Source: greenevolution.ru