22 *Blessing in disguise* or *Turn Lemons into Lemonade*

Use harmful factors (particularly, harmful effects of the environment or surroundings) to achieve a positive effect.
  • Use waste heat to generate electric power.
  • Recycle waste (scrap) material from one process as raw materials for another.

Eliminate the primary harmful action by adding it to another harmful action to resolve the problem.
  • Add a buffering material to a corrosive solution.
  • Use a helium-oxygen mix for diving, to eliminate both nitrogen narcosis and oxygen poisoning from air and other nitrox mixes.

Amplify a harmful factor to such a degree that it is no longer harmful.
  • Use a backfire to eliminate the fuel from a forest fire.
TRIZ principe 22


Is this principle frequently used?

This principle is rarely used with 84 instances in the matrix.

This principle is proposed to solve the following contradictions:

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This ranking reflects the frequency of occurrence of the principle in the analysed patents for this type of contradiction.
When a principle appears in first position, it means that it is statistically the most used in the patents studied for this type of problem.

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