Need of
the hour ? : TEAM
By TEAM
, I mean : Technology
Evaluation
and Acquisition
Minister
Whose job description will be :
Remain constantly on look-out for
developing / developed technologies from around the World , evaluate their
relevance to India’s myriad problems and acquire the same from the developers (
including patent rights / IP rights , to exploit it / improve upon it )
Make available these acquired
technologies to Indian Companies ( both , in private and in public sectors ) /
NGOs / Start-Ups etc , FREE of cost ( conditions apply in respect
of production targets / pricing / time to implement / after-sales service etc !
)
Following are some such technologies :
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Problems : Unavailability
of clean drinking water in drought / famine affected areas
: Pollution thru Plastic Bottles
/ Mountains of Land Fills – Garbage Dumps
Tech from : Prof
Omar Yaghi ( Uni of California ) / Skipping Rock Labs ( UK )
Details at :
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Problem : Loss
of Forest cover / Rampant Desertification
Tech from : Zhong Zhihua, Chinese
Scientist (Chongqing Jiaotong University
).
Details
at :
Problem
: Millions sleeping in
Streets / Slums, for want of affordable houses
Details
at :
Problem : Traffic
Jams on City Roads / Hours to reach Office-Home
Tech from : Electric Front
Wheel for Bicycle from Geo-Orbital ( Cambridge – USA )
Details at :
Problem : Charging
of Batteries of Electric Vehicles takes hours !
Tech from : Flash Battery
Charger from Stores-Dot ( Israel )
Details at :
Problem : No
transmission lines for taking electricity to far-flung villages
Tech from : Bicycle
Generated Power from Manoj Bhargava ( BillionsinChange )
Details at :
Problem : No way to store ( for use at night ), billions of KWH of Solar Power
Tech from : PowerPack
Batteries from Elon Musk ( TESLA )
Details at :
Problem : Fossil Fuel Power killing millions / Urgent need to generate Solar
Power
Tech from : All over the World
Details at :
Problem : Dependence
on import for Li-ion batteries / Fast charging button batteries
Tech from :
#
Venkataraman
Thangadurai and
colleagues ( University of Calgary / Canada )
Thangadurai says :
“
The technology we have developed would enable absolutely stable, robust, safe,
high-powered, all solid state lithium batteries for future energy storage ,
which have many potential applications , including charging
of electric vehicles “
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# And then there is Israeli firm
Stores-Dot , which claims to be developing a car
battery that can be charged in 5 minutes and give a range of 300
miles !
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# A research group at
the University of California (UCR), Riverside’s
Bourns College of Engineering has developed nano silicon anodes for
high-performance lithium-ion batteries, by simply using a low-cost chemical
process and waste glass bottles.
The batteries will not only extend the
range of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
and electric vehicles, but also provide
extra power with fewer charges to laptops, cell phones, and similar personal
electronics.
Problem : High value currency notes
facilitating generation of BLACK MONEY
Tech from : RFID technology from Sanjay
Sarma ( MIT )
Details at :
Tech from : TERAHERTZ Camera developed by
Ramesh Raskar ( MIT )
Details at :
Tech from : Birmingham City University
( Internet of Clothes )
Details at :
Problem : Making available
high speed Internet to entire India ( remotest corner )
Tech from : GoogleLoons ( from Google
) / Drones ( from Facebook )
Problem : Poor road
construction methods resulting in perennial pot-holes
Tech from : Cold Asphalt technology
from COLAS ( France )
Details at :
21 April 2017
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
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