Meet the young techie from Niger who is taking on industrial air pollution

Barmini says he worked tirelessly for two years, funding his research with his own income

You might have heard of Boyan Slat, a young Dutch inventor and entrepreneur who created a system using the circulating ocean currents to clean the ocean of trash and other pollutants. His project, The Ocean Cleanup, received a lot of attention after Slat gave a TEDx Talk in 2012 about it, attracting more than $31.5 million in donations from sponsors including Salesforce.com and philanthropist Peter Thiel.

The next young inventor seeking to help the environment just might come from Niger. Meet Abdou Barmini, 22, who invented