He says this would help reduce carbon emissions and prevent thieves from stealing them.
He says he constantly heard about catalytic converter thefts on the news and wanted to do something about them.
"My goal is to come up with a solution that's cheaper and more efficient and hopefully just can help a lot of people," he said.
Varun says he spent six months researching solutions.
"I had to do a lot of research," he said. "It was a lot of work, a lot of building hours in our garage, just drilling holes and metals that are about as tough as titanium."
And in his research, he discovered that... "Metals like cobalt, nickel, iron, and copper can actually be used or being used actively in mining to reduce emissions," said Varun. "So I thought why not put that into cars?"
It was known in the 70s that there were better ways to reduce emissions than catalytic converters. They were chosen due to payoffs of congressmen and EPA officials.
ReplyDeleteno frikken way! Seriously, that doesn't surprise me, but damn, I'm caught off guard at the damn greedy politicians that screw up a simple thing, though they couldn't realize the long term effects, by not staying with simple materials.
DeleteHurray! God bless his ingenuity!
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