Please describe your proposed solution.
<u>How you perceive the problem you are solving;</u>
Despite the fact that there are currently technologies around the world, and there are international treaties with dozens of committed countries, with financial funds, green bonds, carbon credits, the goal of reducing CO2 in the atmosphere is not being met, CO2 emissions in 2021 broke record.
<u>Your reasons for approaching it in the way that you have; </u>
Analyzing the problem there is a common factor, the appropriate projects are not being carried out to combat pollution and greenhouse gases GEI that cause climate change, for example, solar panels, the most widespread currently, if we analyze the CO2 footprint of these, the real value in the fight against CO2 would be after 5 years, if we take into account the contamination when manufacturing them and when recycling or disposing of them after their useful life of 20 years, the difference in temperature on the surface of the solar panel is 16 degrees centigrade with respect to the floor or ground, the shiny dark surface that reflects solar waves further heating the atmosphere which is what we try to combat.
<u>Who your project will engage, or who its stakeholders are; </u>
Any industry that needs to lower its pollution levels, either as project investors, or to co-generate cheaper electricity, biogas, and thermal energy. Currently there are more than 500 brands related to nopal and its derivatives, also incorporating cement companies that are listed as the most polluting worldwide and any other company that needs to lower pollution rates.
<u>How your project will be implemented; </u>
It begins with a plantation of 4 hectares of mother seed nopal until reaching 20 hectares, 80% of the interest of the production profits will be sold to finance new farmers and obtain crops of between 70 to 3000 hectares planted per unit,
to generate electricity from 1 MGW/Hr to 50 MGV/Hr.
<u>What you will produce (i.e. your outputs) and </u>
At the beginning, nopal vegetables will be produced that take approximately 4 to 7 months after sowing, at the same time the mother seed of nopal will be produced, which takes 6 to 18 months to be at its optimum point, then it will be biogas and generation of electricity, as well as liquid and solid organic fertilizers.
<u>What will happen as a result of your work (i.e. your outcomes).</u>
We will generate the resources to increase the hectares planted, as well as to finance new crops in different places with the mother seed that we are producing.
<u>Explain what's unique about your solution, and what value it brings to the Cardano ecosystem.</u>
Our main objective is to reduce pollution and starting with a crop is to create a business prototype to replicate it in different places.
This proposal will initially benefit the productive base, peasants, farmers and day laborers, since we want the farmers to be partners in the processing industry and not just the sellers of raw materials, finally the communities and the environment, with the production biogas and electricity generation.
For the cardan ecosystem once it is in the social token phase and NFT will help for the expansion of the prototype since it is planned to have different products processed in international markets.
Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.
In this first phase of the project we want to reach the first 20 hectares and since they are generating profits from the sale of nopal vegetables and the sale of penca madre seed, 80% of the interest on the profits generated will be sold to investors, in order to to obtain resources for new crops.
Combining these resources obtained from the project together with the issuance of green bonds, from private investors, government programs or other institutions, we want to make the scale of new plantations more aggressive.
From 70 hectares, the biogas-electricity plant begins in which we consider the industrial sector to co-generate electricity, especially from companies classified as having a high level of contamination in their processes, for example cement factories.
From the first plant, it is contemplated to massively scale the prototype and for each unit to increase it until it reaches 3,000 planted hectares or more with the capacity to produce 50 megawatts/hour.
What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?
One of the problems, as in any crop, are pests, the advice of the supplier himself is contemplated, who has 32 years of experience in the study and planting of nopal, as well as a technician in nopal making inspection rounds according to the specifications of the supplier and achieve early detection, as well as the installation of specific temporary traps and for different types of pests.
Another factor is frost that, depending on the place of the plantation, is contemplated as a contingency resource for micro-tunnels in the protection of the plant and the harvest.