Cleantech in Space: Cool the Mothership
summary
Startups describe a working CO2‑scrubbing panel that electrically breaks CO2 into solid carbon and breathable O2 for rooms or habitats (CO2‑splitting panels that output O2 and sequester carbon), a deployed onboard AI experiment that ran on an ESA opsat days before deorbit and shows FPGA inference uses ~5–6× less power than GPU and reduces data delivery from ~10 hours to minutes (onboard FPGA AI cutting downlink latency from ~10 hours to minutes), satellite tracking that maps millimeter pests and flags truck stops as spreaders, an automatic coastal‑damage alert system, and publicly available Adriatic seafloor vegetation maps (satellite maps of Adriatic seafloor vegetation available online).
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction to panel
- 1:07Panelist introductions
- 4:00Space and cleantech inspiration
- 6:07CO2 capture panels for space
- 7:10Earth observation with space data
- 11:03AI and satellite data processing
- 15:03ESA funding opportunities
- 19:46Resource scarcity in space
- 21:57ESG and sustainability trends
- 25:37Is cleantech in space too niche?
- 26:17Food production on Mars
- 28:46Future of cleantech in space
- 30:11AI’s role in space innovation
- 33:00Closing remarks
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