talks of sustainable mobility tend to focus on the big cities on ways to reduce traffic congestion and pollution and of course make life better on you give me a basis on which to thank you and what if you get off because well if not they can do it all over the optical you know they since it was developed in a. place handcuffs often way several 100 kilos and here in kenya's capital nairobi exhaustion noise are not a problem for day laborers. kenneth quantize invention could make life easier it's an electric powered car that goes faster and can carry more to be big enough to stand up to. the car to get to silver to charge where you wish to kill it

and that's it but if you're looking to get more people who know there is a book which i'm just sort of moving you doesn't use for doesn't for you baby well we'll see if this is. in addition to sparing the environment the new vehicle can move it up to 7 kilometers an hour without using much manpower its ability to power itself is kinetic energy at its best and the big help for users. a month in the us this one will buy you are walking home and everything is pathetic quite then viral meant that there is a. cream to achieve this quantized developed electric rickshaw unlike noisy diesel cooktops this version rolls through nairobi almost silently and without emissions it also carries fine of instead of 3 people you want to diversify the products that utilize what they cannot and immediately be why. while.

one of the more beautiful you know. on top of that it's produced sustainably since components of the electric vehicles come from the region. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website also send us a tweet. hash tag doing your best. we share your stories. a lot of the things we use in our day to day life on live from oil wealthy and also new you was an adult and this is one of the empire exhaust fumes from the cars and from plastic frost in the real sense all piling high. and those are just examples it is a terrible problem scientists are looking for alternatives and sometimes come up

with great ideas for that there is a professor at mit was doing. much of the things we've called. this building is getting added thermal insulation and damp roofing from polystyrene for every year over 10000000 tons of the synthetic material are turned into everything from facade cladding to disposable bowls and cups and packaging. but one extremely useful the downside of the material is that it is essentially non-biodegradable and takes centuries to break down and as it does it releases miniscule particles into the ground and our water supplies. this man has a plan to replace the plastic pollutant and since 2008. poor and his team have been looking into an environmentally friendly alternative pop corn. it's similar to

polystyrene phone. consists of a mass of cavities filled with there are no. i can see them when you dissect a piece of popcorn and examine it under the microscope that's what makes it so light. like the market research and his team have already used popcorn to create kitchen furniture they are showing many factories the range of potential applications for popcorn the 1st step is to turn it into a massive granules all the same size the original maize is grown in germany well that is land intensive on the plus side the material will help to reduce fossil fuel consumption. and you can read it it tastes a lot like popcorn except there's no sugar or salt or chop wood of course so the taste is a bit boring and. the granules of them pressed

together to form sheets panels with plan pricing providing the bonding agent as opposed to synthetic chemicals this makes the material compostable and even suitable as animal fodder. for the team pioneers in the field. they also use a hot air gun to compare the thermal conductivity of polystyrene phone to that of popcorn and then measure the heat that penetrates through to the back in the case of polystyrene foam the sensor reads 28 degrees celsius while the popcorn board is even better at absorbing the heat here the reading is under $25.00 degrees. houses with the panels in the walls or on the facades also or you can also use them as insulation for solid building. the. popcorn material also performs better in the flammability test the polystyrene

burns up at a frightening speed immediately beginning to melt and release toxic gases. subjected to the same flame the panel a popcorn barely catches fire. only reason the poor is happy to pass on the fruits of years of research on the material. or he hopes to see environmentally friendly products made from popcorn replacing polystyrene foam on a large scale and the sooner the better. of. the 1st popcorn packaging is due to go on the market in the fall of 2021 and will hopefully help to reduce the world's growing mountains of plastic waste. and new technologies can certainly make our lives

easier when the internal combustion engine was developed in the 19th century no one in the air pollution on serious health issues it will be later that his white many you know waiters call me to the finding ways of pouring machines. when these innovations help to counteract climate change then wait to see for yourself. we that corn husks aren't uncommon in round of these days the current drought has lasted months and the increasingly extreme weather threatens the libel hood's of local farmers especially those in the eastern part of the country or no quote could be traded it's apparent that climate change is real and increasingly dangerous the farming seasons that people are used to are not longer predictable at times it trains where one expected drought well brought out instead of rains it's confusing you can just farm and have hope over having harvest and what it will bring issues and when you aren't paying a couple. is one farmer who has been fortunate during these hard times have filled

me a roof so she's been able to pump sufficient water to her crops. but they deserve needed to pad their pants is expensive and the exhaust that is a need to sends out contributes to a greenhouse effect the researchers and technology experts from a random start up developed a solar powered irrigation system because they had to the project was financed by a us aid organisation and they run the government they knew irrigation plants came at just the right time for 40 families from authorities in the district that god made agricultural more difficult and the cost of renting the diesel pumps nearly consumed the needs. of. today's sciences we ended up spending much of what awnings on buying failed while using the fuel pump into narrators ira with those little left for our livelihood

now we have gotten great of all those expenses we only need to deplete someone to water the plants. of the kurdish just. due to the more affordable. edition promised cannot attend a larger areas of land and keep farming they used a much higher a series of. what. i do call a hole i was only how this thing 50 kilograms of bugs osogbo seize on now with solar irrigation the yield volume has multiplied by 3 when i am considering expanding my farming even on that one i mean if a 1000 solar powered irrigation system should be can draw in all of the party districts in the country by the end over 2020 this tucked up that builds the sauna irrigation system has also developed a system to michele the temperature and moisture of the site since those calculate

the exact amount of water needed by the plants. farmers of been notified by and up about when and how much they should what corrupts the plants need to get the optimum or what they mean that's why we believe when they use this technology to improve their production. and it does been tested to be a success in the play which has robin doing. these pilot system is powered by solar energy a swim now the farmers know exactly which plants need water and how much they need for the time being they improvising with plastic bottles which will soon be replaced by what to horses. it looks like technological advances will be key to all future that is all for today's show thank you all for being with us hope to see you again i think we'll be back with more exciting stories about the nature and of

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