Blog: Cutting Edge Research Proposals ?

Business Line carries following news report :

New scheme will fund cutting-edge research

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 ,

Secretary.serb@nic.in / sverma@iitk.ac.in / cpio@serb.gov.in

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

hcp@RecruitGuru.com /

www.hemenparekh.in

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 :

Water , Water Everywhere ?

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Problem :

Loss of Forest cover / Rampant Desertification

Tech from :

Zhong Zhihua, Chinese Scientist (Chongqing Jiaotong University ).

Details at :

Garbage is Green Gold ( G3 )

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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 :

Plastic Skyscrapers

Future Home is here !

From Waste to Wealth

A Roof over every head ?

Quantum Jump of 50 million houses ?

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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 :

A Radical Radial Revolution

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Problem :

Charging of Batteries of Electric Vehicles takes hours !

Tech from :

Flash Battery Charger from Stores-Dot ( Israel )

Details at :

A Radical Radial Revolution

All Charged Up ?

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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 :

Manoj Bhargava : My Hero !

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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 :

India : the NEW land of Rising Sun !

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Problem :

Fossil Fuel Power killing millions / Urgent need to generate Solar Power

Tech from :

All over the World

Details at :

Tony Seba stands vindicated !

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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 :

Oracle has spoken !

Tech from :

TERAHERTZ Camera developed by Ramesh Raskar ( MIT )

Details at :

To Catch Black Money , ask Google ?

Tech from :