Graviky实验室捕获空气污染变成墨水
Graviky Labs captures air pollution and turns it into ink

由专筑网朱王倩，韩平编译

一家印度创业公司开发了一种将车辆和烟囱的碳排放转化为油墨的方法，现在正以笔的形式销售。
   
Graviky实验室团队由MIT Media Lab毕业生组成，他们在研究期间开发了捕获空气污染的方法，并将其转化为墨水。

An Indian startup company has developed a method for transforming carbon emissions from vehicles and chimneys into ink, and is now selling it in the form of pens.
The Graviky Labs group is made up of MIT Media Lab graduates, who developed the method for capturing air pollution and turning it into ink while studying.
   

“在过去的150年里，人类依靠直接或间接燃烧化石燃料来满足他们的能源需求”，团队说。“研究表明，许多过早死亡与环境中的煤烟直接相关。”
   
“颗粒暴露导致美国每年大约20,000人过早死亡，我们的愿景是收集车辆烟灰，保证人类的肺部健康。”

"Over the last 150 years, mankind has depended on burning fossil fuels directly or indirectly for their energy needs," said the team. "Research has shown that many premature deaths are directly related to soot in the environment."
"Particle exposure leads to around 20,000 premature deaths in America each year. Our vision is to arrest the vehicular soot in a way that it doesn't reach our lungs."
   

团队的解决方案称为空气墨水。这是由空气污染颗粒，即从汽车排气管，烟囱和发电机出来的未燃烧的碳烟。
   
该过程开始于由团队开发的一个设备，名为Kaalink，可以捕获从这些对象排放出的烟灰。

The team's solution is called Air Ink. This is made from air pollution particles, namely the unburned carbon soot that comes out of car exhaust pipes, chimneys and generators.
The process begins with a device developed by the team, named Kaalink, which captures the soot being emitted from these objects.
   

收集的烟灰然后经历各种过程以去除重金属和致癌物质。最终产物是富含碳的颜料。
   
这种颜料然后用于制造不同类型的油墨和油漆，其中一些公司已经开发并推出了Kickstarter运动。根据团队所得，只需要45分钟的车辆排放量就可以生产一支墨水笔。

The soot collected then undergoes various processes to remove heavy metals and carcinogens. The end product is a carbon-rich pigment.
This pigment is then used to make different types of inks and paints, some of which the company have developed and launched for a Kickstarter campaign. According to the team, it takes just 45 minutes worth of vehicle emissions to produce enough ink for one pen.
   

“创建AirInk的过程中，我们仔细地从烟灰或碳中将重金属和颗粒致癌物分解”，团队说。“可能已经在数百万人的肺部的污染物现在都变成一个个美丽的艺术品。”

"The process of creating AirInk carefully detoxifies heavy metals and particle carcinogens from the soot or carbon," said the team. "The Pollutants which could have been in the lungs of millions of people are now beautifully resting as art."
   

该团队的作品是由于比较严重的空气污染，特别是在亚洲城市。同样由于这个问题，荷兰设计师大安Roosegaarde创造了一个巨大的空气净化器，他声称可以帮助“使整个城市的没有雾霾”。
   
巴塞罗那的烟雾污染情况也促使西班牙工作室BCQ建议用污染溶解混凝土替代巴塞罗那桥梁的现有表面。

The team's work was prompted by the high levels of pollution, particularly in Asian cities. Similarly fuelled by this issue, Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has created a giant air purifier that he claimed could help "make a whole city smog free".
Smog levels in Barcelona also prompted Spanish studio BCQ to propose replacing the existing surface of a bridge in Barcelona with pollution-dissolving concrete.
   

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