A student has won an award from the Environmental Protection Agency for his environmentally friendly invention which cleans car exhaust that would normally pollute the air. Param Jaggi, a 17-year-old senior at Plano East High School, came up with the idea after seeing how much carbon dioxide was released from a car.
Param designed a device called the “Algae Mobile,” which is inserted into the exhaust pipe on the back side of a car. Through photosynthesis, algae inside the gas-permeable, aluminum alloy tube converts carbon dioxide into oxygen and releases it into the air for humans to breathe.
Param won $8,000 over the years and in 2011, an EPA award for sustainability. The EPA chose his concept out of more than 1,500 at the Intel International Science Fair.
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