Context :
This solar-powered pavement
harvests energy from under your feet / EuroNews
Extract :
A company in Hungary is making solar panels out of plastic waste - then using them as pavements.
The Platio team
says it can power buildings and electronic devices, delivering solar energy "to
places where it was not possible before".
"Our product is not made to
replace the traditional solar panels on the roof, for example, but to be a
complementary effort to use clean energy where other energy resources are not
available," Illyés adds.
By employing a special pressuring
method, Platio [info@platio.cc ]
can make use of otherwise non-recyclable plastic to build the bricks that the solar
panels sit on
The company says it uses the
equivalent of 400 plastic bottles to make one
square metre of solar pavement. It claims this
mixture makes for more durable bricks than some other materials in the road building
industry.
And although it's meant for
humans rather than vehicles, the pavement can "easily carry the weight of
even a heavy truck," reassures Illyés.
One solar panel unit
provides about 20 Watts of energy.
And a 20-30 square metre surface can provide enough energy for a family home in a Hungarian climate.
Statements from Platio website :
Ø Production of 1 square metre of PLATIO
pavers recycles the equivalent of 400 PET bottles.
Ø The PLATIO saves the environment from
approximately 25 kg of greenhouse gas emissions per square meter.
Ø The product is designed to be 95%
recyclable at the end of its life cycle.
Ø While High
Performance Concrete (HPC) has a lifetime of up to 50 years, the composite
material of PLATIO solar paver has a lifetime of 100 years, it has much
higher tensile and compressive strength and absorbs much less water than
concrete.
Ø RESULTS:
# # Recycled Plastics > 32 Ton
# # Installed Area > 2500 Sq Meters ( ie: 12.8 Kg of recycled plastic per sq
meter )
# # Energy Generated > 440000 Kw
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From Platio Calculator Page :
Ø
Recycled
Plastic to make 5 Sq Meter Installation Area = 54.6 Kg ( say, 55 Kg )
Ø
That
translates to 11 Kg
of recycled plastic per sq meter
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My Take :
Ø Number of Plastic bottles produced
world-wide in 2021……………583.3
Billion
Ø Plastic waste generated by India in
2019………………………………… .9.46 Million Tons
Ø Total Plastic waste in 2021 could be ………………………………………..
10 million tons
Ø Assuming 30 % consist of PET bottles = 3 million tons
Ø Approx weight of a 1 Litre PET bottles = 20
gms
Ø Which translates as ( 5 bottle=100 gms / 50 bottle =
1kg / 50,000 bottles = 1000 Kg = 1 Ton )
Ø Hence, if all of these 3 million tons of plastic
bottles were to be used ( recycled ) for producing Platio Bricks :
# 3 million
tons = 3,000,000 tons = 3,000,000,000 Kg
# For ease of
calculating, if we take use of 10 Kg / sq meter , we can get :
300 Million sq meter of Platio Bricks
Ø Let us assume a highway with a width of 20 Meter
Ø So we get > 300 Million sq meter divided by 20
Meter = 15 Million Meter length of highway = 15,000 Km of highways constructed
using plastic waste
Ø Now, if 1 panel ( of 1 sq meter ) can generate 20-30
watts of solar power , then 300 million sq meter can produce … 300 million x 20
watts = 600 million watts = 600 Mega Watts of power
!
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Dear Shri Gadkariji,
If ,
Ø
Data
furnished by news report , and
Ø
My
calculations / assumptions
are believable, then you might want to invite Platio to set up manufacturing operations in India
Of course, in the
first instance, you may want to ask Dr R Vasudevanji (deaneca@tce.edu
) :
“ You have already perfected
the technology to manufacture PLASTONE , using
shredded plastic waste.
Can you further improve upon it to overlay a
glass-encased Solar Panel on top of PLASTONE ? “
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
/ hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 19 Sept 2021
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Related Readings :
Why
Battery Storage Is Turbocharging Renewable Energy [ 16 Sept 2021 ]
Plastic
Skyscrapers ? ………………………………………………………….[ 15 Mar 2017 ]
Extract :
Ø Now imagine if Cazza succeeds in shredding BILLIONS of PLASTIC BOTTLES / CARTONS / WRAPPINGS / BAGS / TOYS etc , mix these with some RESIN to turn it into plastic concrete
( PLASTRETE ? )
and use it to 3 D print that skyscraper !
QUESTION :
Ø
Shall we wait till Cassa ( or the Chinese company , WinSun
or the Russian company APIS COR ) , develops this technology ,
so that we may “ license “ it ?
Ø
How about throwing this as a
challenge to our Start Ups / Scientists / Engineers ?
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PLASTONE
: PLASTIC TILES FROM WASTE : INVENTION OF PROF VASUDEVAN / 29
Sept 2019
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajagopalan_Vasudevan )
https://youtu.be/jHHfYi8U4fw ( Oct
2020 Interview of Dr
Vasudevan )
Highlights :
Ø India
has 46 Lakh Km of roads of which 25 Lakh Km are kuchha Village Roads, which can
be made pucca using PLASTONE
Ø To
convert all 46 lakh Km roads into “ Roads bound with Plastic Scrap “ , we need
150 / 200 lakh tons of Plastic Scrap
Ø As
against this requirement, plastic scrap available is only 10 Lakh tons
Discourage
Plastics : Encourage Greed ……………………………[ 21 Mar 2016 ]
Extract :
MISSING ELEMENT :
Abolish Corporate Income Tax for all plastic recycling units for next 10
years !
Let GREED take over GOVERNING !
WHAT CAN WE EXPECT ?
* Within a year, another 10,000 plastic
recycling units will come up
* 100 % of plastic produced will get recycled
* These units will mobilize lakhs of " Plastic Rag Pickers " to collect every
small scrap of
city, leading to Swatchh Bharat and self employment !
* Recycled
plastic will get used to build strong / long-lasting road surfaces
* Some recycled plastic will be used as raw material for mass-producing of
3D printed
ask WINSUN of Shanghai )
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