Idea Machine Journey - Month 8

My eighth edition of idea sharing from my “Idea machine journal”.

Disclaimer:

I want to reiterate the fact that “Ideas are easy, and execution is everything”. Being an entrepreneur myself now, I experience this every day. The current global pandemic situation might make a few ideas irrelevant. There might be a high chance that some of these ideas are already in the market – if I’m aware of them, I will include them in the reference. If I’m not aware of them, please feel free to post them in the comment section.

Idea 1:

Problem: Consuming ice cream can be wonderful and can be annoying at the same time. The ice cream melting seems to be a small challenge but can impact the experience negatively. The majority of the ice cream is of low quality in the market, once it turns molten – it doesn’t get back to its original texture/flavor.

In developing countries, power cuts, lack of cold storage, and cold supply chain are adding more challenges to the ice cream melting problems.

Solution:

• The use of plant-based polyphenols properties to make a stronger emulsion with water and the milk fat/ solids. The polyphenol-protein network would restrict melting at ambient temperatures
• Use of ingredients like salep and other starchy grain such as Kem Xoi that would provide stretchy ice cream that doesn't melt. Turkish ice cream is known to use these ingredients
• Adding polysaccharides such as pectin, carrageenan gum, locust bean gum, increases the ice-cream viscosity thus making it more resistant to melting
• Optimizing the ice crystal size, ice cream mix consistency co-efficient, and fat stabilization to create the right micro-structure would minimize melting

Reference:

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Idea 2:

Problem: A recent study showed that 47% of women have experienced symptoms of hormonal imbalance. Several symptoms such as weight gain, mood swings, insomnia are very common. Hormones are essential for regulating major bodily processes. Men also go through these hormonal imbalances.

Solutions:

• A mixture of protein amino acids such as L-arginine, L-ornithine, L-leucine, L-isoleucine, etc can enhance the pituitary responsiveness – which in turn better manages the hormone balance. The essential and non-essential amino acids can be received as supplements. On top of that, your body also needs it to produce protein-derived hormones — also known as peptide hormones
• Managing your gut health by providing a proper mix of probiotics, and pre-biotics based on customized personal requirements
• Use of bioidentical hormones as a form of hormone replacement to compensate the hormone imbalance
• Accessible cost-effective at-home testing for major hormone levels such as Estradiol, progesterone, LH, FSH, DHEAS, etc. More frequent data points would help manage the levels and make changes to improve them

Reference:

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Idea 3:

Problem: A study in 2017 showed that the sperm count in men globally has reduced by 50% since the 1970s. Environmental changes, lifestyle factors are some of the major reasons for the reduction in these levels. This could be detrimental to the humanity and health of the next generation.

Solution:

• An increase in Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by leukocytes, and immature spermatozoa showed a direct correlation to lower sperm count and infertility. The use of antioxidants supplements and a diet high in antioxidants that can lower the ROS could maintain the high-level sperm levels. ?
• Exposure towards hyperthermia or wet heat exposure has shown a decline in sperm count. Educating people in terms of high temperature (40-45*C) exposure such as heated seats, hot tubs, saunas, etc is critical to minimize its effect on the sperm count
• Use plant extracts such as maca root, ashwagandha, fenugreek – their Phyto-compounds have shown an increase in testosterone levels. Vitamins and minerals such as vitamin C, vitamin D, and zinc have also proven to provide similar results.
• Researchers have found that RANKL protein that contributes to osteoporosis, also lowers sperm quantity and quality. Use of natural RANKL protein inhibitors such as myricitrin, etc to potentially increase the sperm quantity.

Reference:

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Idea 4:

Problem: Wind energy can play a critical role in building a sustainable future. However, the current wind turbines engineering and design have several challenges. Transport and storage of energy generated from these turbines are challenging since they are placed in rural/ remote locations. The current turbines design causes noise pollution, can impact the local wildlife.

Larger wind turbine blades produce more power. With the size of the blades increasing it makes it more challenging to transport and contributes to blade failure and accidents.

Solution:

Designing small-scale wind turbines that can be placed in urban places on rooftops and broadband towers. Few thoughts:

• Developing a vertical axis wind turbine instead of a horizontal axis would help reduce the blade size, weight and make it more convenient to be used in urban cities. On top of that, vertical axis blades can process more drag force from any direction. This also can minimize any chances for the wings to strike the poles.
• The current wind turbine wings are heavy and are not recyclable. Redesigning the blade composition to achieve low density but high rigidity. The use of sustainable materials such as glass fiber, carbon nanotubes, and graphene can push the boundaries in terms of lightweight but increase tensile strength.
• Changing blades design drivers such as ultimate load, blade root, etc. to achieve the highest aerodynamic performance. Inspired from a palm tree, the blade design can be made in such a way that the wings change their position based on the wind movement drastically reducing the drag force

Reference:

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Idea 5:

Problem: Electricity generated from nuclear power creates radioactive wastes such as uranium, spent reactor fuel, etc. These materials can remain radioactive for thousands of years, if not disposed of/ recycled properly. Thousands of metric tons of used solid fuel from nuclear power plants worldwide.

Solution:

• Separating useful and unuseful compounds from spent nuclear fuel is hard, making it challenging to recycle.?Developing technologies and processes to extract high efficient uranium and plutonium could be the first critical step
• 90% of the radioactive waste generated are lightly contaminated items such as tools, work clothes, etc. Components whose activity levels can be reduced to levels acceptable for restricted nuclear use or defined non-nuclear applications. Remelting of metal tools is a method of decontamination that guarantees the homogeneity of the final product and facilitates sampling for further repurposing
• Development of advanced fast neutron reactors that uses high-level nuclear waste as fuel to generate secondary power source upcycling the spent fuel
• Use of transmutation technologies to use the laser to potentially change the composition of highly dangerous waste. Separation and transmutation of actinides has the potential to contribute to solving the problems posed by the management of radioactive waste, by reducing the proportion of long-lived isotopes it contains
• Developing lab-grown diamonds from nuclear waste using irradiated graphite

Reference:

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