If the students can implement the idea efficiently, to a wide-scale market, then the possibilities for what India can achieve to tackle pollution, are endless.
Income tax officer Hari Rao has been working for the past decade to improvise and perfect gas fuel technology in cook stoves. Through his venture Agnisumukh, he has managed to design cook stoves that save up to 70% fuel.
Engineering college students in Mysuru came up with the idea of designing a streetlight system that would help save energy, and also aid the state government.
Australian innovator Russell Collins has developed a Himalayan rocket stove that is energy efficient, clean, and less polluting and uses four to five times less firewood than a conventional stove for burning.