Anirudh Sharma doesn’t just want to pull harmful carbon from the air. He wants to offer a cheaper alternative to the exorbitant costs of ordinary printer ink. Sharma recently invented “Kaala,” a device that can gobble up harmful pollutants and instantly repurpose them, with a little help from alcohol and oil, into black printer ink. One day, Sharma hopes to commercialize the device so it can live in every home around the world. The idea…
An MIT scientist has invented a way to turn pollution into printer ink
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