Carbo-Ionic Cultures for Safe and Sustainable Power
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Summary
Problems
Current battery technologies face challenges such as environmental hazards during disposal, fire hazards during transportation, and limited charge cycles, making them inefficient and unsafe.
Innovation solutions
Development of carbo-ionic cultures and extracts grown in media with tailored organic and inorganic components, which can be used to create microbial electric circuits that provide power without environmental harm.
TRIZ Analysis
Specific contradictions:
General conflict description:
Principle concept:
If alkaline batteries are used, then power can be provided, but environmental hazards occur during disposal
Why choose this principle:
The patent converts the harmful disposal issue into a beneficial circular economy system where spent batteries are collected and processed to recover valuable materials (aluminum, zinc, manganese, steel, copper, plastics) that are then reused in new battery production, eliminating environmental hazards while maintaining power provision
Principle concept:
If alkaline batteries are used, then power can be provided, but environmental hazards occur during disposal
Why choose this principle:
The patent implements a systematic process of discarding spent batteries and recovering their constituent materials through automated processing facilities, transforming waste into reusable resources that feed back into battery manufacturing, thus resolving the environmental disposal problem
Application Domain
Data Source
AI summary:
Development of carbo-ionic cultures and extracts grown in media with tailored organic and inorganic components, which can be used to create microbial electric circuits that provide power without environmental harm.
Abstract
Described herein are carbo-ionic cultures and extracts and applications thereof. The carbo-ionic cultures are grown in media containing an organic component and an inorganic component and the proportions and compositions of these components can be tailored to produce carbo-ionic extracts with specific properties such as, for example, the ability to provide power to a light emitting diode (LED) with a specific voltage. The carbo-ionic cultures and extracts have further uses including enhancing the growth of plants, including plants grown from tissue culture, and as supplemental nutrients for cultures of industrially, commercially, and/or scientifically-important microorganisms. Also described herein are microbial electric circuits comprising the carbo-ionic cultures and extracts described herein as well as applications of those circuits.