July 11, 2012 (Vol.1 ISSUE 15)

 1.     This backpack can see through walls
Source- Dvice

2.  Moon pattern explained

Source- Sciencenews

3.  Nanotubes Soak Up the Near-Infrared Sun

Source- Optics and PhotonicsNews 

4.  SOCCKET : Portable Football power generator

Source-  Uncharted play

                                                            CSIR NEWS

    Turning tannery waste into fuel

     Tamil Nadu will be home to one of the world’s first bio-refineries which will use solid waste generated from tanneries in the Vellore district.

    The Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) in Chennai, a unit of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have succeeded in developing a bio-refinery which will produce biodiesel, bioethanol, biohydrogen and biomethane.

     ‘With this biorefinery we will ensure that tanneries across the country do not discharge any kind of solid waste. There will not be any waste to be discharged because we will use it as raw materials’, Palani Shanmugam, the CLRI scientist who designed the refinery told DNA.