Anirudh Sharma: Ink made of air pollution
Anirudh Sharma: Tinta feta amb contaminació de l'aire
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 cinc milions de persones
20 minutes' worth of pollution
20 minuts de contaminació
you can see it right now,
in the air, you won't see them.
and they end up in our bodies --
i acaben a dins del cos,
if not treated in the right time.
si no es tracten a temps.
when I was a student in 2012,
quan jo era estudiant el 2012,
of a diesel generator,
d'un generador diésel,
which is a sign of human progress,
un senyal del progrés humà,
as a society in the last 100 years,
a societat durant els últims 100 anys,
triangular, black-colored swatch,
triangular i de color negre
residual particulate waste
both pollution and inks,
la contaminació i les tintes,
that black-colored mark.
de color negre.
ink that we use conventionally
que utilitzem habitualment
fossil fuels in factories.
a les fàbriques.
that are burning fossil fuels
que estan cremant combustibles fòssils
on an everyday basis.
que fem servir a diari.
of liters of fossil fuels
s'estan cremant milions
and our exhaust out there,
i els tubs d'escapament,
and conducted a small experiment.
i vaig fer un petit experiment.
much pollution to play with,
gaire contaminació,
that would suck in that candle soot,
que absorbia el sutge de l'espelma
i una mica de vodka,
vegetable oil and vodka,
these were really easily available.
es podien trobar fàcilment.
a very rudimentary form of ink
de tinta molt rudimentària
of experimenting
manera d'experimentar
that I showed you in the petri dish,
he ensenyat a la placa de Petri,
that is being burned out there.
qualsevol combustible fòssil.
this experimentation forward
més enllà en l'experimentació
of air pollution.
la contaminació de l'aire.
used to look something like this.
era semblant a això.
were not always controlled,
sempre controlats,
looking something like this.
how exactly to reach there.
com arribar-hi exactament.
by that lab through that building
al costat del laboratori a l'edifici
"These guys are making bombs in there,"
estan fabricant bombes",
wires and smoke in the same vicinity.
and take experiments forward.
per avançar en els experiments.
and during the early stages,
en les primeres fases
with contraptions like these.
driving around doing?"
of our system that would capture pollution
nostre sistema captura la pol·lució
a conventional diesel-based car.
and created this into this version
i vam crear aquesta versió
des de fonts estàtiques de contaminació,
from static sources of pollution,
as soon as you turn this machine on.
tan aviat com s'encén la màquina.
the performance of the engine,
95 percent worth of pollution
that we are talking about that we capture,
del qual parlem i que capturem,
of operation of a generator.
de funcionament d'un generador.
and our research was advancing,
i la nostra investigació avançaven,
va contactar amb nosaltres i ens va dir:
approached us and said,
juntament amb vosaltres, nois,
further with you guys,
in a very big celebrated form."
d'una manera notòria".
off this pollution."
amb la pol·lució".
40 to 50 minutes of that car pollution
entre 40 i 50 minuts de la pol·lució
que hi ha a la placa de Petri.
that is in the petri dish.
that you can write with.
amb el qual es pot escriure.
that is generated by the same pollution.
generat per la mateixa pol·lució.
to do a very big trial of this idea.
per fer una prova d'aquesta idea.
ens ho vam pensar dues vegades.
and we didn't think twice.
in the real world is completely another.
és una altra cosa ben diferent.
our own houses and own kitchens
les nostres pròpies cases i cuines
for making these inks.
per fer aquestes tintes.
to artists all around the world,
a artistes d'arreu del món
AIR-INKs to the ports
la AIR-INK als ports
around the world can use it.
la puguin utilitzar.
started using AIR-INK,
feien servir la AIR-INK,
obres d'art com aquestes.
en blanc i negre fetes amb la pol·lució
pollution-made artworks
of scientists and engineers and inventors,
de científics, enginyers i inventors,
saber que el producte del seu treball
than that the product of their work
of the finest artists around the world.
dels millors artistes del món.
"Contagious" de l'any passat,
magazine last year,
that we made back in our labs.
que vam fabricar als nostres laboratoris.
by the British artist, Christian Furr,
de l'artista britànic Christian Furr,
"Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones.
"Paint it Black" dels Rolling Stones.
and pop-culture artworks.
per a les obres de la cultura pop.
I mean, just money --
vull dir, només diners
processes and inks
d'alta qualitat
the conventional black inks
les tintes negres convencionals
thousands of years around the world.
durant els últims mil·lennis.
and artworks around the world,
i de les obres d'art a tot el món,
kind of a problem.
a un problema ben diferent.
to our office address,
bosses plenes de contaminació
"Què podem fer amb aquesta pol·lució?"
with this pollution?"
has pollution samples
té mostres de contaminació
from India, from China, you name it.
la Xina, i de molts altres indrets.
this specific image, asking us
contenien partícules PM 2,5
filled with PM 2.5,
if we paid him some money.
i donar-li alguns diners.
if we did not take that pollution?
sinó acceptar la pol·lució?
or a landfill and dump it over there.
l'hauria llençat a un riu o un abocador.
of AIR-INK figured out on the other side,
la part econòmica d'AIR-INK,
this pollution and make inks from it,
ens donés la pol·lució per fer-ne tinta
more valuable products.
encara més valuosos.
is a global killer.
la pol·lució és un assassí global.
resoldrà el problema de la pol·lució.
will solve the world's pollution problem.
des d'una perspectiva una mica diferent.
slightly differently.
I'm holding right now.
que tinc a les mans ara mateix.
AIR-INK I'm talking about.
de la qual he estat parlant.
que està dins d'aquesta placa de Petri.
that is inside this petri dish.
breathing in when we are walking outdoors.
quan caminem pel carrer.
per fer les coses encara millor.
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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