Anirudh Sharma: Ink made of air pollution
Anirudh Sharma: Cerneală făcută din poluanții din aer
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
mor în fiecare an
20 minutes' worth of pollution
în douăzeci de minute
you can see it right now,
in the air, you won't see them.
nu le puteți vedea.
and they end up in our bodies --
nu le pot elimina,
if not treated in the right time.
fără un tratament adecvat.
when I was a student in 2012,
când eram student, în 2012,
of a diesel generator,
de la un generator diesel,
which is a sign of human progress,
al industrializării rapide
as a society in the last 100 years,
în ultimii 100 de ani,
triangular, black-colored swatch,
neagră foarte interesantă,
residual particulate waste
both pollution and inks,
asupra poluării și a cernelurilor,
that black-colored mark.
ink that we use conventionally
cernelii negre convenționale
fossil fuels in factories.
carburanților fosili în fabrici.
that are burning fossil fuels
peste tot în lume
on an everyday basis.
negră folosită zi de zi.
of liters of fossil fuels
de carburanți fosili
and our exhaust out there,
gazele de eșapament,
acei poluanți pentru a produce cerneluri?
and conducted a small experiment.
și am făcut un mic experiment.
much pollution to play with,
cu care să mă joc,
that would suck in that candle soot,
care să capteze funinginea lumânării,
vegetable oil and vodka,
these were really easily available.
unui entuziast în bricolaj.
a very rudimentary form of ink
foarte rudimentară de cerneală
of experimenting
that I showed you in the petri dish,
pe care vi i-am arătat în vasul Petri,
that is being burned out there.
oricărui carburant fosil.
this experimentation forward
să continui acest experiment
of air pollution.
și reciclarea poluanților din aer.
used to look something like this.
were not always controlled,
nu erau întotdeauna sub control
looking something like this.
how exactly to reach there.
by that lab through that building
pe lângă laborator
"These guys are making bombs in there,"
wires and smoke in the same vicinity.
foc și fum la un loc.
and take experiments forward.
și să continuăm experimentele.
and during the early stages,
with contraptions like these.
cu asemenea mașinării.
driving around doing?"
of our system that would capture pollution
al sistemului care să capteze poluanții
a conventional diesel-based car.
and created this into this version
și am creat această versiune
from static sources of pollution,
de surse statice de poluare,
as soon as you turn this machine on.
când pornim această mașinărie.
the performance of the engine,
95 percent worth of pollution
that we are talking about that we capture,
pe care vă spuneam că le captăm,
of operation of a generator.
de funcționare a generatorului.
and our research was advancing,
și cercetarea noastră avansau,
approached us and said,
un mare brand, spunând:
further with you guys,
împreună cu voi,
in a very big celebrated form."
off this pollution."
pe care le produceți din poluanți!”
40 to 50 minutes of that car pollution
timp de 40-50 de minute poluanții
that is in the petri dish.
that you can write with.
cu care se poate scrie.
that is generated by the same pollution.
creat de aceiași poluanți.
de cercetare în laborator,
to do a very big trial of this idea.
să testăm această idee.
and we didn't think twice.
in the real world is completely another.
este cu totul altceva.
our own houses and own kitchens
propriile case și bucătării
for making these inks.
pentru a face aceste cerneluri.
cofondatorului Nikhil,
to artists all around the world,
cerneluri artiștilor din întreaga lume
AIR-INKs to the ports
livrând AIR-INK către porturi
around the world can use it.
să o folosească.
started using AIR-INK,
au început să folosească AIR-INK,
pollution-made artworks
alb-negru din poluanți
of scientists and engineers and inventors,
de știință, ingineri și inventatori,
than that the product of their work
decât ca produsul muncii lor
of the finest artists around the world.
de cei mai buni artiști din lume.
magazine last year,
de anul trecut,
that we made back in our labs.
produsă în laboratoarele noastre.
by the British artist, Christian Furr,
al artistului britanic, Christian Furr,
"Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones.
melodia trupei The Rolling Stones.
and pop-culture artworks.
de artă din cultura pop.
I mean, just money --
adică doar bani -
processes and inks
și cerneluri de calitate
the conventional black inks
cernelurile negre convenționale
thousands of years around the world.
and artworks around the world,
și a lucrărilor de artă din întreaga lume,
kind of a problem.
to our office address,
saci plini cu poluanți,
with this pollution?"
cu acești poluanți.
has pollution samples
avem mostre de poluanți
from India, from China, you name it.
India, China, de peste tot.
this specific image, asking us
această imagine, întrebându-ne
filled with PM 2.5,
if we paid him some money.
if we did not take that pollution?
nu primeam acei poluanți?
or a landfill and dump it over there.
din apropiere ori la groapa de gunoi.
of AIR-INK figured out on the other side,
pentru AIR-INK,
this pollution and make inks from it,
poluanți pentru a face cerneluri
more valuable products.
is a global killer.
poluarea ucide la nivel global.
will solve the world's pollution problem.
va rezolva problema poluării în lume.
slightly differently.
din altă perspectivă.
I'm holding right now.
AIR-INK I'm talking about.
that is inside this petri dish.
ca cei din acest vas Petri.
breathing in when we are walking outdoors.
cu toții când ieșim din casă.
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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