Anirudh Sharma: Ink made of air pollution
Anirudh Sharma: Inchiostro ottenuto dall'inquinamento atmosferico
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 quattro e cinque milioni di persone
in tutto il mondo.
20 minutes' worth of pollution
you can see it right now,
ora riuscite a vederle,
in the air, you won't see them.
non ci riuscite --
e finiscono nel nostro corpo,
and they end up in our bodies --
se non ci curiamo in tempo.
if not treated in the right time.
when I was a student in 2012,
nel 2012 quando ero studente,
of a diesel generator,
di scappamento di un motore diesel,
del progresso umano,
which is a sign of human progress,
as a society in the last 100 years,
negli ultimi 100 anni,
macchia scura, triangolare,
triangular, black-colored swatch,
residual particulate waste
both pollution and inks,
di inquinamento e inchiostro,
quella macchia scura.
that black-colored mark.
che usiamo comunemente
ink that we use conventionally
fossil fuels in factories.
that are burning fossil fuels
che usano combustibili fossili
che usiamo ogni giorno.
on an everyday basis.
of liters of fossil fuels
di litri ci carburanti fossili
and our exhaust out there,
motori, tubi di scappamento,
il nostro inchiostro?
and conducted a small experiment.
ho avviato un piccolo esperimento.
a trovare abbastanza emissioni
much pollution to play with,
di usare una candela.
per risucchiare la fuliggine della candela
that would suck in that candle soot,
vegetable oil and vodka,
reperibilità per il fai-da-te.
these were really easily available.
di inchiostro rudimentale
a very rudimentary form of ink
of experimenting
that I showed you in the petri dish,
mostrato nella piastrina,
di combustibili fossili nel mondo.
that is being burned out there.
this experimentation forward
di procedere con gli esperimenti
l'inquinamento dell'aria.
of air pollution.
used to look something like this.
aveva questo aspetto.
vanno fuori controllo,
were not always controlled,
looking something like this.
il nostro obiettivo,
della strada per raggiungerlo.
how exactly to reach there.
by that lab through that building
nei pressi del laboratorio
che fabbricassimo bombe,
"These guys are making bombs in there,"
cavi e fumo nello stesso posto.
wires and smoke in the same vicinity.
and take experiments forward.
gli esperimenti in un garage.
and during the early stages,
con questo marchingegno.
with contraptions like these.
ci guardava la gente,
driving around doing?"
del nostro sistema cattura emissioni
of our system that would capture pollution
normalissima macchina diesel.
a conventional diesel-based car.
abbiamo creato questa versione
and created this into this version
da fonti statiche di inquinamento
from static sources of pollution,
appena si accende la macchina.
as soon as you turn this machine on.
sulle prestazioni del motore,
the performance of the engine,
il 95% dell'inquinamento
95 percent worth of pollution
that we are talking about that we capture,
of operation of a generator.
di attività del motore.
and our research was advancing,
e ricerche continuavano,
approached us and said,
e famosa ci ha contattati dicendo,
further with you guys,
in a very big celebrated form."
campagna artistica globale
off this pollution."
ottenuto dall'inquinamento."
40 to 50 minutes of that car pollution
o 50 minuti di emissioni di auto
della piastra di Petri.
that is in the petri dish.
con cui potete scrivere.
that you can write with.
that is generated by the same pollution.
dallo stesso inquinamento.
e ricerche di laboratorio,
to do a very big trial of this idea.
di collaudare la nostra idea.
and we didn't think twice.
e non ci pensammo due volte.
in the real world is completely another.
è tutt'altra cosa.
our own houses and own kitchens
casa nostra e le nostre cucine
for making these inks.
per fabbricare inchiostro.
del co-fondatore, Nikhil,
to artists all around the world,
agli artisti di tutto il mondo,
AIR-INKs to the ports
AIR-INK ai porti
around the world can use it.
di tutto il mondo lo ricevano.
nel mondo usavano AIR-INK,
started using AIR-INK,
pollution-made artworks
in bianco e nero, fatte dall'inquinamento
of scientists and engineers and inventors,
ingegneri e inventori,
che vedere il proprio prodotto
than that the product of their work
of the finest artists around the world.
della rivista "Contagious"
magazine last year,
that we made back in our labs.
nel nostro laboratorio.
by the British artist, Christian Furr,
dell'artista inglese Christian Furr,
dei Rolling Stones "Paint it Black".
"Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones.
e all'inchiostro c'è di più
and pop-culture artworks.
è creare una società
I mean, just money --
non in nero, solo soldi,
processes and inks
the conventional black inks
rimpiazzare quelli convenzionali
thousands of years around the world.
migliaia di anni nel mondo.
and artworks around the world,
grazie alle opere d'arte
kind of a problem.
problemi differenti.
to our office address,
di materiale al nostro ufficio,
di questa materia inquinante?"
with this pollution?"
has pollution samples
ha campioni di inquinamento
from India, from China, you name it.
India, Cina, da ovunque.
this specific image, asking us
filled with PM 2.5,
if we paid him some money.
if we did not take that pollution?
se non avessimo accettato i sacchi?
or a landfill and dump it over there.
nel fiume più vicino o in una buca.
of AIR-INK figured out on the other side,
la parte economica di AIR-INK,
this pollution and make inks from it,
a darci i sacchi per produrre inchiostro,
more valuable products.
l'inquinamento è un killer globale.
is a global killer.
risolverà l'inquinamento mondiale.
will solve the world's pollution problem.
slightly differently.
da una diversa prospettiva.
I'm holding right now.
AIR-INK I'm talking about.
that is inside this petri dish.
nella piastra di Petri.
breathing in when we are walking outdoors.
che respiriamo stando fuori
per fare ancora meglio.
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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