Malaysian team turns pineapple waste into disposable drone parts
By Ebrahim Harris
BANGI, Malaysia (Reuters) – Malaysian researchers have developed a method to remodel the fibre current in normally discarded pineapple leaves to make a sturdy supplies that may be utilized to assemble the frames for unmanned airplane, or drones.
The problem, headed by Professor Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan at Malaysia’s Putra University, has been on the lookout for sustainable makes use of for pineapple waste generated by farmers in Hulu Langat, an area about 65 km (40 miles) from Kuala Lumpur.
“We are reworking the leaf of the pineapple into a fibre that may be utilized for aerospace software program, primarily inventing a drone,” he instructed Reuters at a workshop.
Mohamed Thariq said drones made out of the bio-composite supplies had a greater strength-to-weight ratio than these made out of synthetic …