Waste onion skin could be new source of furure energy

Breakthrough finding by researchers of IIT Kharagpur, India and Pohang University of Science and Technology South Korea

World is finding with many crisis, energy is one of them resources are depleting. But this is where society needs thinkers and researchers. Definitely credit to those who dip their shoes truly deeper in the mud to find the jewel. And researchers of IIT Kharagpur, India and Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea are no different.

The team of researchers from these two premier institutes uses Piezoelectric property of materials to generate electricity from waste onion skins. 

Onion is one such eatable used world over. Its skin go waste and sometime used in the production of bio gas with other waste material.

However, if this research proves successful at industrial level chances are onions should be most prized commodity in our kitchens.

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