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Hult Prize Challenge (Agriculture (12% of the world’s population remains…
Hult Prize Challenge
Agriculture
- 12% of the world’s population remains undernourished; in rich countries the food supply is 75% higher than actual need, resulting in food waste and increasing incidence of obesity
- To meet the needs of the global population, we must grow 60% more food by 2050.
We’ll need energy-powered innovations that transform Agtech and Foodtech, which means rethinking how we produce and consume food.
- Redefining what food is
- Innovating how we grow food
- Changing how we process, store,
and distribute food
- Resource-conserving practices, such as conservation agriculture and climate-smart agriculture
- Meat substitute using heme plant to mimic meat texture and flavour to cut down on deforestation and GHG emissions from cows
- Hampton Creek, Memphis meats and Mosa Meats, Impossible Foods
- Vertical & Indoor farming, Aquaponics
- Motorleaf, Plenty, Aerofarms, BrightFarms, Bowery Farming, and Freight Farms, are building “postorganic” indoor farming systems to grow fresh food locally
- AgBots
- microtarget weeds with herbicides, using only 0.1% as much weed killer as is used in conventional blanket spraying.
- Food Distribution
- Cold Storage
- RF Biocidics uses radio frequency to eliminate pathogens in food.
- ColdHubs, “pay-asyou-store” subscription model, which allows farmers to pay daily fees based
on the amount of food they store.
- Using a digester, the farm captures methane produced by its 900 head of cattle and in turn produces electricity—enough to power the farm as well as another 200 homes. Waste heat from the generator is even reused to heat water for the farm, and digested solids find second life as hygienic bedding for the cows.
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Connectivity
Target audience:
- Nearly four billion people around the globe still lack Internet access.
- For countries with basic/advanced Internet service: connectivity opportunity lies in the ability to reimagine the ease and speed at which we can access vast troves of information and data on an unprecedented scale
Examples:
- Unique Biz Model: Ad-sponsored unrestricted internet access
- Smart Devices (Optimal usage of electricity grid)
- Blockchain
- Wireless power
- May lead to the creation of “shared” public charging infrastructure rather than individual ownership of power cords and access to electrical outlets.
- Energous has debuted commercial technology that can power devices wirelessly acrossshort distances.
- Exploring 5G options, millimeter waves, massive MIMO, small cells, and beamforming
- Li-Fi, conveys wireless communications at very high speeds. uses the visible light spectrum but at speeds so quick the light is not recognised by the human eye.
- pCell technology by Artemis (using combined interfering waves to create unique cells that follow each device and allow full access to the spectrum)
- How can we expand Internet services to those who currently lack access?
- How can we harness new connectivity technologies to improve the delivery of other essential services?
- How will we build the next phase of connectivity so that it enables the next generation of human
advance?
Water
Create more clean water with
new technologies
• Conserve water resources with
improved stewardship
• Enable wider access to clean
water resources
By 2025, 1.8 billion people will live in water scarce conditions. New energy-driven innovations are needed to transform how we collect, store, and transport water so that all people will have access to this vital resource
- Watercone
- simple plastic cone that can filter 1.5 liters of fresh water from salt water each day using solar power.
- LifeStraw
- Bactobots
-digest the pollutants in wastewater and convert them into electricity, which can be captured by an electrogenic bioreactor platform
- Smaat India has created a sustainable business model for distributing low cost water to 75 million customers in
India through 2,800 water ATMs;
Mobility
Possible Targets:
- According to the World Bank, one billion people in low-income countries still lack access to an all weather road.
to broadly consider how we can move goods and people
inclusively and sustainably, while also getting back to basics. Consider that some of the most creative mobility innovations may be found not in flying cars or other futuristic technology but in the movement of our own bodies.
Examples:Topping on the energy powerhouse of a human body
Harnessing this abundant energy source is a potent “back-to-basics”
- Human locomotion
- a chip that can capture the kinetic energy of human movement to
fuel small electronic devices such ascell phones. Such technology could be
inserted into the shoe soles to store energy created from movement
- Pavegen has created tiles that convert kinetic energy into electricity using a mechanical system. Installed where there’s high foot traffic and powerful to power phone-charging station
- Thermoelectric
- captures heat energy from the body through temperature gradients within the ambient environment.
- Solar-powered Transportation pathways
- SolaRoad in Netherland
Solar roadways face several cost, engineering, and maintenance
challenges before they can achieve wide-scale deployment. The kilometer long test bed in France cost $5.2 million; there are one million kilometers of roads in France and more than six million in the U.S.
Even with a targeted deployment, the high upfront costs could mean an increased payback period for investors. Furthermore, laying the panels flat (rather than being angled toward the sun) seems to lessen their ability to generate energy.
Health
take the existing breakthroughs in genetic and bioengineering and find ways to extend them to more consumers. “What’s missing in the conversation is how we adopt all of these technologies to a society that considers well-being for all,”
Wearables:
- offer more affordable solutions to those with hearing impairments: Bone-conducting headphones can transmit sound in ways that bypass auditory deficits.
- Bluetooth hearing aids are an example
of a low-cost approach to deploying
technology at scale
Sanitation
- Solar Toilet
powered by solar energy, converts human waste into hydrogen gas for various uses and into fertilizer for food production.
Smart Lenses
- 600 million and 1 billion people need help with their hearing, depending on the degree of hearing loss.
- 100 million people wear contacts daily for vision correction; the range of applications for smart lenses—and the potential consumer market—is even larger. A smart contact that can
automatically monitor glucose levels would be life-changing for the 420 million people around the world who must frequently monitor their blood sugar as part of ongoing treatment for diabetes.
Education
How can we extend learning to
more people?
• How will we connect to and
leverage the full range of human
intellect?
• How can we further expand
the frontiers of our collective
knowledge?