“…the Climate Change Committee has highlighted an uncomfortable truth that should be obvious to us all. We seem to be blinkered to the fact that adaptation as a defence against climate change is now inevitable and must be our first future port of call,” says RedCAT CEO, Professor Miranda B.
Fortunately, climate-tech solutions devised by RedCAT innovators address at least one – and in many cases all three phases – of our mitigation-adaptation-resilience response to climate change.
Three of many that immediately spring to mind are: – Thrive (‘Biotech that cleans, clears & restores’), Organic Heat Exchangers (O-Hx), and Additive Manufacturing Solutions Ltd. (AMS).
Triple triumphs
♦ Thrive tackles hygiene problems with powerful, biological, low-cost, sustainable cleaning and waste remediation solutions that mitigate odours, deep clean, unblock drains, and dissolve limescale.
Through advances in biotechnology, environmental sciences and formulation chemistry, it researches, develops, and assesses the behaviour of microbes in water and soil – leading to innovative natural solutions that prevent pollution and remove pollutants from natural ecosystems.
♦ Circa 10% of global electrical energy powers industrial cooling for chilled warehouses, pharmaceutical manufacturers, food manufacturing, and data centres – and could reach 25% with global warming. As an adaptation measure, O-Hx‘s hashtagEnergiVault system can move refrigeration’s high energy demand to more economic off-peak periods, with long-term storing of valuable ‘cold energy’. The UK, EU and USA commercial value of cold energy storage is some £7 billion.
♦ Resilience utilises rapid recovery solutions to overcome and shortcut adverse environmental challenges. By 3D printing with recycled ‘critical minerals’ in the circular economy, Additive Manufacturing Solutions Ltd. boosts UK defence, aerospace and automotive industry security as exotic metal supplies are increasingly compromised by global trade wars. CEO Rob Higham believes technologies developed by his Lancashire-based company can solve a significant UK problem. Many authoritative figures agree with him.
RedCAT innovators have already taken 46 new products and services to market successfully via the unique RedCAT commercialisation route.
