2023 Quebec Climate Solutions Festival



Grand Quai du Port de Montréal200 de la Commune Ouest, Montréal (QC) CA H2Y 4B2

Climate Solutions Prize | The Climate Solutions Prize is an unparalleled competition designed to inspire researchers and organizations with funding to fight the climate crisis.

The first edition of the Climate Solutions Festival in Quebec was an incredible success! With over 800 participants, the first of many events to come surpassed all expectations!
 
Thank you to everyone you came out for the 2-day event to support the ecosystem and the brilliant minds working towards innovative solutions to help save the planet! Congratulations to the inaugural winners of the competitions! Their innovative ideas and commitment to tackling climate challenges deserve special recognition. 

Breakthrough Research Prize 1st Place Philip Raphals & Prof. Charles Kiyanda, NovoPower - Concordia University
Breakthrough Research Prize 1st Place

Power from waste heat: Bringing data centers and green hydrogen electrolyzers into the circular economy. Developing power generation systems to bring liquid- cooled data centres into the circular economy, by using their own waste heat to power their servers. Liquid cooling reduces infrastructure loads dramatically but, unless reused for heating purposes, the waste heat is still wasted.

Breakthrough Research Prize 2nd Place Dr. Soodeh Abedini & Dr. Maria Elektorowicz, Concordia University
Breakthrough Research Prize 2nd Place

Green Fuels=Sustainable Energy Storage
 
Reducing GHG emission and capture of carbon in order to generate green fuel for sustainable energy storage by using a novel electrochemical system. It can capture biogas and convert to methanol, which can be further used for energy generation. The GHG is pumped into the device continuously, where chemical reactions within a low direct current voltage convert gas to a fuel (methanol). The fuel can be redirected to another device e.g., DMFC (direct methanol fuel cell) or stored

Start-Up Track Opalia
Start-Up Track

Real Milk, No Cows
 
Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells. 
 
Opalia’s technology is being developed for all dairy lovers interested in having a more conscious and sustainable diet without compromise.

Student Entrepreneur Innovation PrizeYee Wei Foong, Quantus - McGill University
Student Entrepreneur Innovation Prize

Sustainable Batteries
 
Developing a new pseudocapacitive bafery to provide a more sustainable and scalable alternative to LIBs. It operates on the principle of quantization in nanocarbon, also referred to as the solvated Coulomb blockade mechanism. Quantus developed a computational model to investigate this phenomenon for nanocarbon solvated in electrolytes (often found in bateries and ultracapacitors).

2023 Climate Solutions Festival in Québec

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2023 Quebec Climate Solutions Festival | Climate Solutions Prize | The Climate Solutions Prize is an unparalleled competition designed to inspire researchers and organizations with funding to fight the climate crisis.
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2023 Quebec Climate Solutions Festival | Climate Solutions Prize | The Climate Solutions Prize is an unparalleled competition designed to inspire researchers and organizations with funding to fight the climate crisis.
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2023 Quebec Climate Solutions Festival | Climate Solutions Prize | The Climate Solutions Prize is an unparalleled competition designed to inspire researchers and organizations with funding to fight the climate crisis.
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2023 Quebec Climate Solutions Festival | Climate Solutions Prize | The Climate Solutions Prize is an unparalleled competition designed to inspire researchers and organizations with funding to fight the climate crisis.
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