Business Line carries following news report :
Highlights :
# Called Supra, the initiative is
one of PM Modi’s 100-day transformative ideas
# As part of the Modi government’s 100-day
transformative ideas, the Science and Engineering Research Board
(SERB) plans to announce a new scheme with the sole
objective of funding exploration of new scientific and engineering breakthroughs with global impact.
# “The
idea is to fund disruptive ideas
that can lead to new areas of study, new scientific concepts, new products and
technologies. The focus is not incremental or short-term
advances in the understanding, but new
science or truly disruptive technologies,” SERB Secretary Sandeep Verma
told BusinessLine.
# Called Scientific and Useful Profound Research
Advancement, or Supra, the scheme is designed to attract high
quality research proposals consisting of new hypotheses
or challenge existing ones and provide ‘out-of-box’ solutions.
“The proposals have to be extremely bold and the outcome should be really cutting edge. The principal investigators (PIs) should be
able to convince the reviewers about its long-term impact on our fundamental scientific understanding or the
disruptive nature of the technology that is being pursued, Verma said.
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Dear Dr Sandeep Vermaji ,
Nearly a year ago, Shri Modiji set up,
PM – STIAC [ Prime Minister’s
Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council ]
The committee was to
advise the Prime Minister on all matters related to S&T, innovation and
monitor the implementation of PM’s
vision on the same.
Encouraged by PM’s
vision, I submitted, a set of problems which required some “ out-of-the-box “ thinking and “ cutting
edge research “
You will find their
details at the following blogs ( each sent as email to the Cabinet Ministers ).
Dear Shri Vermaji,
I fully appreciate that
you will get inundated with hundreds of proposals , which, I believe you will “
EVALUATE “ using some “ Rating / Ranking “ system
And I do hope , you will
publish on your web site, not only the rating mechanism but also list the final
selection of the proposals in the descending order
You may wish to consider
“ Rating / Ranking “ of the proposals by a panel of eminent Scientists /
Technocrats
Acknowledging each
proposal will go a long way to encourage citizens to send in their own
proposals
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
Mumbai
18 Aug
2019
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Problem :
[
Source : Man
who sees Future / 28 Aug 2018 ]
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 :
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Problem :
Millions sleeping in Streets / Slums,
for want of affordable houses
Tech from :
Chris Kelsey ( Cazza )
/ WinSun ( China ) / Formwerkz ( Singapore )
Details at :
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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 :
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Problem :
Charging of Batteries of Electric Vehicles
takes hours !
Tech from :
Flash Battery Charger from Stores-Dot ( Israel )
Details at :
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Problem :
No transmission lines for taking electricity
to far-flung villages
Tech from :
Bicycle Generated Power from Manoj Bhargava ( BillionsinChange )
Details at :
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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 :
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Problem :
Fossil Fuel Power killing millions / Urgent
need to generate Solar Power
Tech from :
All over the World
Details at :
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Problem :
Dependence on import for Li-ion batteries /
Fast charging button batteries
Tech from :
Venkataraman Thangadurai and colleagues ( University of Calgary / Canada )
Thangadurai [ vthangad@ucalgary.ca ] 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 “
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 !
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.
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Problem :
High value currency notes facilitating
generation of BLACK MONEY
Tech from :
RFID technology from Sanjay
Sarma ( MIT ) [ SESARMA@MIT.EDU ]
Details at :
Tech from :
TERAHERTZ Camera developed by Ramesh Raskar ( MIT )
Details at :
Tech from :
Birmingham City University ( Internet of Clothes )
Details at :
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Problem :
Making available high speed Internet to
entire India ( remotest corner )
Tech from :
GoogleLoons ( from Google ) / Drones ( from Facebook
)
A Welcome Initiative
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Problem :
Poor road construction methods resulting
in perennial pot-holes
Tech from :
Cold Asphalt technology from COLAS ( France )
Details at :
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Some of the other Sources ( listing Research Concepts
)- this is not a comprehensive list :
Water
above our heads [
29 Mar 2019 ]
Health
Data Vault
[ 16 July 2019 ]
The
Biggest , FREE , Desalination Plant : Sun + Sea [
09 July 2019 ]
Traffic
Congestion ? Finally, a solution in sight ? [
31 May 2019 ]
Census
2021 : an Unprecedented Opportunity [ 11
April 2019 ]
100
% verification of VVPAT ? No problem ! [ 02
April 2019 ]
VVPAT
? How about EVBAT ? [ 28
Mar 2019 ]
The
Future of TV Viewing ? [ 26 Mar 2019
]
RBI
: how about an audible note ? [
23 Mar 2019 ]
E
– Car Extrapolation : a Wishful Thinking ? [ 20 Mar 2019 ]
Anti
– Pollution Towers
[
14 Mar 2019 ]
A
Grass-Root Revolution [ 11
Mar 2019 ]
Ray
, a drop of golden Sun [
18
Feb 2019 ]
Digital
Dividend from Demographic Data [ 4 D ] [ 14
Feb 2019 ]
SARAL [ 10
Feb 2019 ]
Organizing
the Unorganized [ 04
Feb 2019 ]
National
Clean Air Tax ? – a Pigovian tax ? [ 11 Jan
2019 ]
Thank
You Madam Maneka Gandhiji [
21 Dec 2018 ]
Trans-portability
Theory [ 10
Dec 2019 ]
Transport : an
Integrated Logistic Plan ? [ 20 Nov
2019 ]
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