Pipelines that detect fiery solar storms

‘Necessity is the mother of invention. When you don’t have the money to buy new, expensive stuff, you look within the system to find out your own solutions to reduce costs. India’s scientists have mastered the art of recycling and coming up with their own inexpensive solutions,’ according to Pallava Bagla, India correspondent for Science.
A notable example: India’s 2014 operation mission to Mars, cost the exchequer 4.5 bn INR, almost 10 times less than the American Maven orbiter.
The pipes were imported from Japan where they are normally used at building construction sites. In the early 1990s authorities wanted to remove the pipes and dispose them as scrap. But scientists wanted to use them for their experiments…. They are laid out in rows…to become a muon telescope. The fabled jugaad, an Indian colloquial word that means ingenious improvisation in the face of scarce resources, extends to the use of the pipes as sensors.

CMEPEDIA is a ‘jugaad’, an innovative fix, which recycles existing content to give health care professionals in developing countries an equal access to quality controlled information.