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June 05, 2007
Beyond The Consumer Internet: 10 Ideas For Tech Startups
We've been moaning about the dearth of geeky, disruptive startups getting funded, even the kind with more TLAs than an afternoon at one of Jeff Pulver's VON conferences. (Image credit: skysails.info)
So we got inspired by the thought that climate change and reduction of greenhouse gases do not only present problems to be solved by cleantech startups - there are a host of other things that are affected by climate change where software, online exchanges, and engineering, for example, could be exploited.
And therefore offer some upside for smart founders.
It's in the nature of the entrepreneur to understand change as a chance.
We snagged that quote and these changes, ideas, and industrial problems to be solved from a presentation by ecolutions, an emerging alternative investment company, that might provide some food for thought.
Building industry
Trend of prefabricated houses build in factories, independent from weather conditions and then assembled in 4-6 hours
Strong demand for cooling and isolation systems - businesses that downsize their energy needs by applying advanced materials and techniques, e.g. façade engineering.
Managing power facilities and consulting large industrial consumers.
Transport & Logistics
Extreme weather conditions leads to increase in prices for transport and logistics
services (e.g. aviation).
Car industry
New models for new climate zones
New actuation techniques (hydrogen, natural gas...)
Development of hybrid-drive cars (combination of cumbustion and solar-electric
engine)
Weather manipulation
Techniques to influence weather
Agriculture
Harvest outfalls due to heat peaks in summer
Reduction of usable land
Strongly increasing agricultural commodities
And here are a couple more classical cleantech opportunities. If anyone is seriously investigating weather manipulation, we'd like to hear about it.
Waste management
Absorbing environmentally damaging gases, like methane, by sealing
Energy extraction from reduced greenhouse gases
Biogas
Value chain improvements due to increases in production efficiency and economic
utilization of fall-outs.
Chances for investors during consolidation of fragmented biogas market in Europe.
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