Anirudh Sharma: Ink made of air pollution
Anirud Šarma (Anirudh Sharma): Mastilo od zagađenog vazduha
Inventor Anirudh Sharma is the founder of Graviky Labs, an MIT Media Labs spinoff. Full bio
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to five million people die
i pet miliona ljudi umre
20 minutes' worth of pollution
zagađenje iz vazduha
you can see it right now,
in the air, you won't see them.
and they end up in our bodies --
i one završavaju u našim telima,
if not treated in the right time.
ukoliko se ne lečimo na vreme.
when I was a student in 2012,
kada sam još bio student,
of a diesel generator,
izduvni gas dizel-motora,
which is a sign of human progress,
ljudski napredak,
as a society in the last 100 years,
kao društvo u poslednjih 100 godina,
triangular, black-colored swatch,
trouglasti crni uzorak,
residual particulate waste
both pollution and inks,
o zagađenju i mastilu,
that black-colored mark.
ink that we use conventionally
većina mastila koje koristimo
fossil fuels in factories.
fosilnih goriva u fabrikama.
that are burning fossil fuels
koje sagorevaju fosilna goriva
za svakodnevnu upotrebu.
on an everyday basis.
of liters of fossil fuels
fosilnih goriva već sagorevaju
and our exhaust out there,
da uhvatimo tu zagađenost
kako bismo napravili mastilo?
and conducted a small experiment.
i sproveo mali eksperiment.
much pollution to play with,
zagađenje da se igram,
that would suck in that candle soot,
koja je usisavala čađ iz sveće,
vegetable oil and vodka,
these were really easily available.
ove stvari vrlo lako dostupne.
a very rudimentary form of ink
of experimenting
that I showed you in the petri dish,
koje sam vam pokazao u Petrijevoj šolji
that is being burned out there.
bilo kog sagorenog fosilnog goriva.
this experimentation forward
nastavim sa ovim eksperimentom
of air pollution.
vazdušnog zagađenja.
used to look something like this.
laboratorija je izgledala ovako.
were not always controlled,
su nekada izmicali kontroli
looking something like this.
how exactly to reach there.
kako da tamo stignemo.
by that lab through that building
pored naše laboratorije
"These guys are making bombs in there,"
„Ovi ljudi ovde prave bombe,“
žice i dima u istom prostoru.
wires and smoke in the same vicinity.
and take experiments forward.
preselimo u garažu.
and during the early stages,
sa ovim čudnim napravama.
with contraptions like these.
„Šta rade ovi ljudi vozeći ova kola?“
driving around doing?"
koji hvata zagađenje
of our system that would capture pollution
a conventional diesel-based car.
dizel-automobila.
and created this into this version
from static sources of pollution,
kao što je dizel-motor.
čim se mašina uključi.
as soon as you turn this machine on.
the performance of the engine,
95 percent worth of pollution
that we are talking about that we capture,
o kojoj govorimo i koju hvatamo,
of operation of a generator.
do četiri časa rada generatora.
and our research was advancing,
i istraživanje napredovali,
approached us and said,
nam se obratila, rekavši:
further with you guys,
ovu ideju sa vama,
in a very big celebrated form."
globalnu umetničku kampanju
off this pollution."
od ovog zagađenja.“
40 to 50 minutes of that car pollution
tokom 40 do 50 minuta,
that is in the petri dish.
kojom možete pisati.
that you can write with.
that is generated by the same pollution.
stvorena iz istog zagađenja.
to do a very big trial of this idea.
za isprobavanje ove ideje.
and we didn't think twice.
bila marka, i nismo oklevali.
in the real world is completely another.
je nešto sasvim drugo.
our own houses and own kitchens
naše domove i kuhinje
for making these inks.
to artists all around the world,
umetnika koji bi slikali ovim mastilom
AIR-INKs to the ports
around the world can use it.
do umetnika širom sveta.
started using AIR-INK,
koji koriste vazdušno mastilo,
pollution-made artworks
napravljenih od zagađenja
of scientists and engineers and inventors,
inženjera i pronalazača,
than that the product of their work
nego da proizvod njihovog rada
umetnika širom sveta.
of the finest artists around the world.
magazine last year,
časopisa „Contagious“
that we made back in our labs.
iz naše laboratorije.
by the British artist, Christian Furr,
britanskog umetnika, Kristijana Fura,
"Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones.
„Paint It Black“ od Roling stounsa.
and pop-culture artworks.
I mean, just money --
mislim, samo novac -
processes and inks
the conventional black inks
konvencionalna crna mastila
thousands of years around the world.
već hiljadama godina.
and artworks around the world,
u svetu počela da raste,
kind of a problem.
sa novom vrstom problema.
neočekivanu poštu od zagađivača,
to our office address,
zagađenja na našu adresu,
with this pollution?"
sa ovim zagađenjem?“
has pollution samples
trenutno imamo uzorke zagađenja
from India, from China, you name it.
this specific image, asking us
ovu sliku i kazao nam
filled with PM 2.5,
if we paid him some money.
ukoliko mu platimo.
if we did not take that pollution?
da nismo uzeli te džakove?
or a landfill and dump it over there.
u obližnju reku ili deponiju.
of AIR-INK figured out on the other side,
ekonomiju vazdušnog mastila,
this pollution and make inks from it,
i da od njega napravimo mastilo,
more valuable products.
is a global killer.
globalni ubica.
will solve the world's pollution problem.
rešiti problem zagađenja u svetu.
slightly differently.
posmatra malo drugačije.
I'm holding right now.
AIR-INK I'm talking about.
mastila o kome govorim.
that is inside this petri dish.
koje je u ovoj Petrijevoj šolji.
breathing in when we are walking outdoors.
dok šetamo napolju.
to do better than this.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Anirudh Sharma - Engineer, inventorInventor Anirudh Sharma is the founder of Graviky Labs, an MIT Media Labs spinoff.
Why you should listen
Anirudh Sharma's interest lies in deep-tech, science-based social entrepreneurship. He fuses cutting-edge sensor, wearable and man-machine interface technology. In 2010, Sharma invented a haptic shoe called "Lechal" to guide the blind. Lechal was the earliest wearable innovation designed for the visually challenged. During his tenure at Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab, Sharma worked on future fabrication and augmented reality with futuristic displays. After returning from MIT, he co-led the nonprofit consortium MIT Media Lab India Initiative with the goal of remodeling and perpetuating self-organized, design-led innovation into the grassroots in India.
Sharma also cofounded Graviky Labs to evolve his side project KAALINK, a retrofit technology which captures particulate carbon emissions from chimneys or diesel engines (without affecting the performance of the engine) before they enter the atmosphere. The captured pollutants are then recycled into inks, called AIR-INK. Forty-five minutes of automotive emissions is equivalent to produce 30 milliliters of black AIR-INK. The company has found its niche globally, replacing conventional black inks applied to arts, printing and fashion industry as a means to offset carbon. To date, Graviky has recycled roughly 250 kilograms of PM2.5 air pollution waste, which has produced 1,200 liters of AIR-INK. Sharma also loves folk, magic and indie artforms.
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