Power from cigarette

We always see banners showing that " CIGARETTE IS INJURIOUS TO HEALTH "

We also heard from everyone that smoking is bad for not only health but also for the society. Normally smokers are not seen as ideal person in a society.

But for all the smokers there is a good news that is 

" CIGARETTE BUTTS CAN BE USED FOR POWER GENERATION".

A group of scientist form South Korea have claimed to process the used cigarette buts into a new high performing material that could be integrated into computers, handheld devices, electrical vehicles and wind turbines to store energy.

So now the era has changed and moved forward . 

smokers are not only giving serious health problems but also can contribute towards the energy generation.

 

hopes regarding this discovery is..

• can be used to coat the electrodes of super capacitors
• electrochemical components that can store extremely large amounts of electrical energy
• also offering a solution to the growing environmental problem caused by used-cigarette filters. 

In their study , the researchers demonstrated that the cellulose acetate fibres that cigarette filters are mostly composed of could be transformed into a carbon-based material using a simple, one-step burning technique called "Pyrolysis". 
As a result of this burning process, the resulting carbon-based material contained a number of tiny pores, increasing its performance as a super capacitive material. "A high-performing super capacitor material should have a large surface area, which can be achieved by incorporating a large number of small pores into the material," said Professor Jongheop Yi from Seoul National University .

So smokers now can be proud to be what they are...

ankit sharma