WHAT IS BIOMIMICRY?
In this Bio means life and mimicry mean imitation. So, Biomimicry is the practice of imitating life.
it looks to nature to provide inspiration and direction to sustainably solve our most pressing challenges. It is an innovation inspired by nature.
Human beings are clever. we've created the city's, economies, and whole societies but at the same time and without meaning to. we've also created massive sustainability challenges for future generations and ourselves.
Biomimicry is a way to address these problems by creating policies, products, and processes that are adapted to live on earth. the idea goes like these plants, animals, and microbes are amazing. They have spent billions of years of engineering and testing ways to thrive on the planet. 3.8 billion years to be precise. that's a lot of research and development!
what did not work does not exist anymore and what surrounds us has learned to survive. solutions to challenges large and small are all around us. sustainable energy is a massive sustainability challenge. the race is on to find economically viable sustainable energy solutions. biomimicry asks " what could we learn from the nature that could help us produce sustainable energy or make more efficient the current alternative technologies that are already out there?"
Seeming large and unwieldy humpback whales display surprising agility in the water.
This issue mainly to their flippers which have large irregular bumps called "tubercules" across their leading edges. inspired by these flippers, a company called whale power has developed turbine blades with bumps called tubercles on the leading edge. These blades promise greater efficiency in many applications from wind turbines to hydroelectric turbines, to irrigation pumps, to ventilation fans.
In fact, using these blades to catch wind could provide up to 20% increased efficiency, making this type of alternative energy competitive with other energy sources.
Another example is the shinkansen bullet train is one of the fastest trains in the world. offering high-speed travel between several of japan's metropolitan areas, it used to travel over 200 miles per hour. but every time the train emerged from a tunnel, air pressure changes made a sonic boom like a large thunderclap causing people a one-quarter mile away. who lived along the train line to complain.
Japan has exacting clamor contamination laws so this must be explained.
The train's main architect was a devoted birdwatcher. he asked himself: "Is there something in the nature that movements rapidly and easily between two distinct mediums?". the kingfisher dives from the air into the water to catch fish and produces almost no splash at all compared to similar-sized birds animals. modeling the front end of the train after the beak of kingfishers resulted in a quieter train, that uses 15% less electricity while traveling 10% faster.
By emulating nature, the bullet train designers were able to solve an important problem.
IIT MADRAS INTRODUCING NEW COURSE BIOMIMICRY
This Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras will soon offer a course on biomimicry. It would be a full semester, elective course, and would teach students to imitate nature as a source of inspiration to solve complex problems, the IIT-Madras informed.
"Biomimicry is the intersection of biology and engineering. you do not have to be either a biologist or an engineer to learn biomimicry, all you need is curiosity. curious enough to look at a lotus leaf and ask the question like "How does a lotus leaf remain clean?", the IIT said in an official statement.
WHAT IS IT?
Students can have multiple applications from one orgasm, and there are millions of such organisms that have evolved strategies over billions of years of adaptation to our planet.
we can use these blueprints and recipes from nature to design and build solutions for our world, the IIT-Madras informed.
IIT-Madras claims to be among the first institutions in India to offer a full-fledged course on biomimicry. The course will be taught by MS Sivakumar - dean of students, IIT-Madras, shiva Subramaniam, CIO, Gopalakrishnan-Deshpande Centre for innovation and Entrepreneurship, IIT-Madras, department of applied mechanics, and Srinivasa Chakravarthy a professor at the department of biotechnology.
IIT-Madras has also claimed to have created a community of biomimicry enthusiasts who are exploring opportunities in research, entrepreneurship, new products, processes, and systems.
The Institute plans to hold a biomimicry challenge to provoke bold, sustainable ideas from young minds. The UN Sustainable Developments Goals can provide students with challenges for which they can design solutions using biomimicry.
This is dummy text. It is not meant to be read. Accordingly, it is difficult to figure out when to end it. But then, this is dummy text. It is not meant to be read. Period.
ConversionConversion EmoticonEmoticon