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Biodigester
Calvin Rodrigues
rodrigues_calvin@yahoo.com
I wish to present the idea of having a Single Drum Continuous Biodigester on your forum.
Problem: 1.0 The Deenbandhu (Fixed Dome digester) has been unsuccessful due to failures in construction and also space requirement. Biodigesters are not popular in the urban areas due to space requirement. By integrating the Compensation Tank and the Feeder Pipe inside a Single PVC Water Tank we can have a clean and neat Biodigester which could be appealing to the urban population as well as rural India.
Method: Take the example of a 3000 Liters PVC Water tank. The height is 2.02 meters and the Manhole is 0.4 meters. Use a PVC Pipe of the same diameter (400 mm) and make two holes in it; one slightly above the other. The diameter of the holes must be 50 mm (2 inches). The bottom of this pipe must be closed. At the top of this pipe, in line with the PVC tank inlet position, make another hole of 2 inches. This is for the outlet slurry to flow from the 400 mm PVC pipe. From the bottom, 2 inches hole, connect a 2 inch pipe so that it comes out of the 400 mm pipe. This will be the Feed Pipe. The other 2 inches hole will be the outlet to the Compensation Tank. The space in the 400 mm pipe itself will be the Compensation Tank. Make a hole for gas outlet connection which is higher than the outlet slurry pipe. Connect a valve.
Lower the fabricated arrangement into the PVC Tank. Connect a pipe for the outlet slurry. Seal the 400 mm pipe to the manhole edges of the PVC tank. Slip the Manhole covers over the Feed Pipe so that it covers the opening of the PVC Tank. Keep a drain on the PVC Tank for maintenance. Now the digester is ready for operation. Charge the digester with Cow Dung and wait for the generation of Gas.
We can use food waste and other material in the urban areas.
Advantages: (i) Cheaper, (ii) No leakages, (iii) less Space required, and (iv) Elegant looks
Very good idea indeed! We will post it at techpedia.in, also in Vietnam, I had seen a balloon or inflatable pipe based continuous digestion system floating in irrigation channel. Good thoughts though. Stay in touch and keep up your creativity: Ed.
Carma connect
Hemant Nitturkar
hemant@carmaconnect.in
I have interacted with you a couple of times – once when I was heading the activities of New Ventures India – a CII initiative. And second, when I was a speaker before you at IIT, Kharagpur at their Annual Entrepreneurship summit. I have also closely worked with CIIE. Also, I am an executive alumnus of IIMA.
I am convinced that scalable entrepreneurship is the only way to ensure inclusive and widespread growth and economic opportunity creation for the teeming millions. I really like your Honey-bee network concept and the work it has done. I have developed a unique early stage capital raising model to assist companies raise between
Rs. 25 lakhs and Rs. 5 crores,
the gap area not being addressed by the current ecosystem. I
invite you to our website – www. carmaconnect.in
Also, I am pleased to inform you that I have been chosen in a prestigious international business plan competition and am “an Unreasonable fellow 2011”. Please see www.tiny.cc/knrpl. I look forward to hear from you and to explore ways to help grass root innovators successfully commercialize their businesses.
You are very right about the gap and the need to bridge this gap. Most grassroots innovators don’t have companies, one will have to develop new exit strategies and thus incorporate proprietary firms in the investment entitlement. It has an advantage that you can mobilize mentoring skills, which grassroots innovators need very badly. Tell me more about who your investors are so that we can be assured about ethical and social issues too. I’m so happy to see this initiative, All the best: Ed.
Inspired to contribute
Brijesh Tanna
brijesh.tanna@gmail.com
I saw your talk at the TED India conference and felt extremely inspired by it. You have truly set a very high benchmark for Indians like me to take the country ahead.
Since my school days, I used to detest the text book explanation of India’s economic problems, where Population was always on Top of the list. Your Honey Bee Network truly proves how the population can be turned into the biggest advantage we have.
I am an independent film & TV producer and trying to work on subjects that would be relevant to causes similar to yours. I would like to be associated and help you in any way possible.
I am currently based overseas but hoping to be back by end of 2010 and will be based in Mumbai eventually. It will be an honour if I could contribute to your movement in anyway.
Thanks Brijesh! Will be very happy if you spread the word around so that those who wish to join the network can. Also subscribers for honey bee are most welcome: Ed.
Ideas for quality education
Dhakshinamoorthy
tmoorthyedec@gmail.com
I got inspired by you when you gave a talk at IIT Madras Tech Festival 2005. Then I became serious thinker of “How to give a quality education for poorest of the poor”. That time there was no youtube and Facebook etc. After youtube came, a lot of schools (IITs, MIT, UCB, Yale, etc) put their quality teaching material on youtube. Even APPLE joined the race by introducing iUniversity. Recently “Khan Academy” introduced lot of videos for school students in USA.
Most of the school teachers, professors face the same problem; that is teaching the same material for many years. Eventually, that reduces the time for quality thinking and research. After NPTEL (http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/), a faculty can say please watch the videos and ask questions, think and solve the problem yourself. I believe that is the motto of education.
Similarly why can’t we have a system for 6th grade to pre-college or 12th Std students in their own language and their own medium of education (State board, CBSE, ISCE).
I am willing to develop such system if Honey Bee Network supports such entrepreneurship.
We do believe that an open source library of educational material is needed, and we wish to encourage you by providing you space at www.sristi.org. Please do send us your insights, knowledge and practices. We will be very happy to learn about these: Ed.
Biologist
Zdravka Davidkova
st.cegal@yahoo.com
I am a biologist from Bulgaria. I am impressed of your research and innovation in alternative medicine. As I also work in this field, I’d like to exchange information regarding this. I would be able to provide you with traditional Bulgarian prescription for alternative treatment.
We will also appreciate if we can plan a local language newsletter on people’s
innovations in Bulgaria as well: Ed.
A Friend from USA
John J. Zahaitis
john@zahaitis.com
Currently, I work for a music company here in Los Angeles, California. In the past, I have put together marketing ideas for Mr. Puri on how to reach out to the Indian Diaspora both here in the US and abroad. It never went anywhere, but my research taught me that there is still much to do in the world and especially in India. I enjoyed your TED video recently and admire how you are solving (some) technical problems the world over.
I have wondered of late why there aren’t products like these (http://www. solarjoos.com/) available on every street corner in rural India. Also, with contests at Universities here in the US for robotics and such, why couldn’t your team broaden the scope of such events to include ways in which to improve one design or another to help people who cannot grind their own grain, charge their new phones, or somehow improve their own condition somehow?
With so much computing power available (i.e IBM’s Watson, or worse/better: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html ), or “crowd sourcing” (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/st_thompson _living_games/) it makes me wonder why someone isn’t pursuing large companies to fund a project for the likes of your organization to try to remedy some of the problems that people face the world over, no matter what they be.
What I have done for the past few years is to work for one of the top video directors for live DVDs. If there were something I could do in the name of advancing your site through the likes of a well made video, or through the simple discussion of more ideas, or through the active pursuit of companies here in the US, I would do what I could for you if at all possible.
Thanks John, videos, of course yes, we need a lot of them to convey the range of our work. We have some friends in USA but nothing like a “friends of honey bee network in USA but surely, we could try.”
SRISTI has not been lucky to get such resources as you mentioned, maybe we have not tried hard, maybe we are very idiosyncratic. We always need many many volunteers to help in this transformative movement at the grassroots. Do tell us more about yourself. See www.sristi.org, sristi.org/anilg”anilg, nifindia.org, techpedia.in: Ed.
Planning a visit
Kari Clifford
cliffordkari@gmail.com
I am a third year student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I study Industrial Design Engineering, and my class (of 23) is planning a three-week visit to India during the spring.
I was given your contact information from Ida Groth, another student from NTNU (School of Entrepreneurship) who visited you earlier. We haven’t planned everything about our trip yet, but we’d like visit you and see your projects if there’s a possibility of doing so. I know you have many projects on how to use design to solve social problems - something I find very interesting.
We will be very happy to have you all visit us in spring. All the best: Ed.
Bringing about change
Amit Ballani
amitballani@gmail.com
I am an Asst. professor at NV PATEL College of Pure & Applied Sciences, V.V. Nagar, Gujarat and wish to tell you that inspired by your activities and forum which i witness through Honeybee, newspapers and website; I had started a club in the college for the awareness and some concrete steps to think and do innovatively. I just need your blessings to do make a change, small or big i do not know. I would work my level best to inculcate in myself and my students the attitude to think in this way. I had subscribed the Honeybee and wish to conduct First Idea contest in September in our college to start the process. I wish your blessing would come in the form of advice or suggestion to do efficiently.
I belong to Jaisalmer, Rajasthan and if you are planning a shodhyatra in Western Rajasthan, I would be more than happy and privileged to look after every assistance in local arrangements, troubleshooting and the objectives of the yatra.
I want to meet you once, to get more insight and motivation to contribute with whatever capacity I can to your mission.
Amit, you are most welcome to the HoneyBee Network. It would be wonderful to have a motivated person like you help us! Do visit us sometime at SRISTI Ahmedabad: Ed .
Chinese financial Magazine
Fiona Yao
yyx0420@163.com
This is Cathy Yao from China, I am an editor of Chinese financial magazine Chuang Fu Zhi which focuses on business model, our magazine is very popular in China, our circulation is 300,000 in China.
We know that you have created a charitable organization named Honeybee network, and it is a very famous all over the world. And we are going to report it to our readers. But now I have some questions which need your help, could you please clarify them for us?
1. Does Honeybee network help innovators apply for the Patent?
2. We learnt that from your website, there are some members of Honeybee network as bellow, what is their role? And what they are responsible for in Honeybee network?
We would get in touch with you soon: Ed.
Appropriate technology
Nina Sawhney
nina.sawhney.m@gmail.com
My name is Nina Sawhney and I am current young American faculty member at NUS Engineering. I graduated from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in May of 2010 with a BS degree in electrical and computer science. I was hired for a short-term (1.5 year) contract to help develop NUS’s Design-Centric Curriculum projected to fall under NUS’s EDIC.
After my term with NUS, I am hoping to conduct a study in appropriate technology under the Fulbright organization. In order to obtain a grant, I must first submit a research proposal under a host affiliation (academic institution for India). Dr. Ming Po Tham suggested to contact you with the hopes of helping find an appropriate host organization and possible providing me with knowledge with regards to narrowing my research topic for the Fulbright Grant.
Please let me know if you are interested in helping me. I would be most appreciative to have any sort of help.
Surely SRISTI as well as NIF (National Innovation Foundation) will be very happy to host you. Since you wish to be part of already ongoing technology incubation exercise going on at NIF or SRISTI, you can join techpedia.in team or work with Rakesh Maheshwari, a senior fellow at NIF who is supporting many technologies for further value addition: Ed.
Physicist and science journalist
Ingolf Baur
Ingolf.Baur@gmx.de
My name is Ingolf Baur and I work for the German cultural Television program “Länder Menschen Abenteuer” which you could may be translate as people-countries-adventures.
I read the story about you and the way you are looking for innovators and lost knowledge in India in the magazine GEO a while ago and can’t forget it. I find your approach very interesting and I think it would be quite amazing for German audience to find out more about your initiative.
Probably you get lots of requests from journalists from all over the world, but maybe you do see a chance to get in contact and talk about a filming project. I’d look forward to it very much.
I greatly appreciate your interest in Honey Bee Network and ShodhYatra about which you read in the Geo magazine. Let us discuss your plans and then may be we can find a productive way of taking your idea forward: Ed.
Oasis Television
Aparna Sanyal
aparna@oasistv.in
We are doing research for a TV show for an international channel, for which we are looking for cool, innovative engineers/ scientists/ designers.
The premise of the series is that each week a team of engineering experts will be given two major pieces of machinery (e.g. a hovercraft and a bulldozer) and will be expected to put their creative brains and practical skills together to combine the machines’ components and build an entirely new machine. The TV series will be a celebration of the achievements of engineering and all things machine.
So the people we are looking for could be engineers, designers, scientists and mechanics who relish a technical challenge, are happy to get their hands dirty and ideally have practical skills and experience in some of the following areas – vehicle electrics, hydraulics, fabrication, mechanics, diesel and petrol engines, mechanical design. It is also crucial that they speak excellent English and are passionate about machines. They could be anything from a car mechanic, to a machine design engineer or a mechanical special effects designer. Would you know of anyone like this?
Sure, Aparna, many innovators and students at techpedia.in would be very happy to join hands. English may not always be strong for them, but I suppose some can compensate it with their ingenuity: Ed.
COLORS Magazine
Angela Quintavalle
angie@fabrica.it
My name is Angela Quintavalle and I’m writing you from COLORS, a “magazine about the rest of the world” published since 1991 in Italy and distributed in 40 countries. Our editorial team suggested me to contact you.
As you may know, we are about to publish a new issue of COLORS that we’d like to launch in Shanghai, China, towards the middle of July 2011.
The issue is dedicated to the alternative ways of transport; it can be seen as a “survival guide” when petrol will come to an end. The featured stories come from all over the world; among them, Mr Chen Shenghui, a Chinese farmer who invented the first “solar-powered” car and a story about the popular Indian “Chakdas”, a one-seat motorbike transformed to move as many people as a minibus.
Our idea would be to organize a small exhibition inspired to this special issue with real vehicles and blown-up spreads of the magazine. We would be honored to have you as our guest of honor at the event. Your testimony as global leader in sustainable technologies would be very enriching for us.
I am happy that HoneyBee Network is spreading its wings in China. Our collaborators in China, Zhnag Liyan is in touch with you and extend full support. Hope to find new friends through your platform: Ed.
Geek Nation Television series
Aloke Devichand
aloke_devichand@hotmail.com
I am a television producer currently working on a six-part documentary sries about science, technology and innovation in India, which will be broadcast on Al Jazeera English Television.
I have been reading extensively about your work at the Indian Institute of Management, the National Innovation Foundation, and within SRISTI and the Honey Bee Network. It has impressed upon me the importance of exploring grassroots innovation in India, and the blending of formal and informal science, as an integral aspect of the series.
Just to give you a little more background, the series will be presented by author and broadcaster, Angela Saini. Angela is uniquely qualified to lead this exploration about Indian technology and innovation, having recently published a book on the subject, entitled ‘Geek Nation: How Indian Science is taking over the World’.
The Geek Nation television series will provide an equally thorough and illuminating account of how Indian science and technology is driving economic growth, changing the way India is run through the shift to e-governance, and spurring innovations in areas such as biotech, agriculture, computing, environment, communi-cations and medical sciences.
Thanks Aloke, explorations like these almost always bring new friends to HBN. Looking forward to engage, explore and involve curious and concerned well wishers like you: Ed.
Greetings from Bulgaria
Ivan Kovachev
ivan.kovachev87@gmail.com
My name is Ivan Kovachev, I’m 23 and I live in Sofia, Bulgaria. I have just read in the Bulgarian GEO magazine an article about you and your activities, your dedication and adventures in India! This article left me very impressed and excited about the way you help other people by sharing and spreading the knowledge you’ve gained! I must say I really admire you and your doings, so I just want to wish you best of luck and good health, god speed on your journeys!
Many thanks Ivan! Please do see sristi.org and also sristi.org/anilg for more information about our work Do tell me more about what u do and do think of
honey bee network in your esteemed country: Ed. |
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