A Nigerian engineer, Obayagbona Emmanuel Imafidon, has
revealed that he has invented a power-generating device that can solve the
problem power outage in the country.
In an interview with Guardian, the graduate of
Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Management and Technology in Enugu
said he could generate power from thunder lightning and that he has been
working on it since 2006. He said: “I have been researching on generating
constant power from thunder lightning. That is using a strike of thunder
lightning to generate power that can serve Nigeria and Africa for five years
and 30 days. That means that whenever thunder strike for once, we are sure of
uninterrupted power for five years and thirty days
“One may think it is not possible and if it is
possible why the western world has not converted lightning to electricity, but
what I have developed so far is a prototype.
There are five chambers including the trapping zone
which is made of lightning arrestor.
There is the storage zone and the conversion zone,
which convert static energy into current electricity and transmit the energy
into transmission zone.
The transmission zones will first of all step down the
power from as high as five mega volts and there are five storage zones that
have the capacity of storing over 25 mega volts of power. “When it stores the
25 MV of power, the conversion zone takes one mega vote at a time, send signals
to other sensory zones which shut down other sensory zones from discharging at
the same time.
Now the transmission zone of the power generating
plant will step down the megavolt to whatever Nigerians need. “For instance,
Nigeria is generating 330,000 megavolts, but my device generate 5 million volts
and then give Nigerians their 330 KV and still have about 4670, 000 megavolts
left as reserve.
"Taking a look at the prototype, the first time I
worked on it was March 10, 2006.
I built this prototype with five zones- the power
trapping zone, the annexing zone and in between the annexing zone, there is the
sensory zone, conversion zone and transmission zone.
In Nigeria, we are generating 330,000 volts. Now when
thunder strikes, the trapping zone (which is made of trapping arrestor) will
trap a maximum of 5 mega volts from 330mgv that comes from lightning.
"Lightning comes with 330 mega volts and the trapping arrestor here is
capable of trapping five million megavolts, thereby allowing 330 megavolts to
be wasted in the atmosphere for other lightning arrestors to trap and neutralise
the energy to the ground through a process called earthling.
If you look at most masts around, you will see
something like a Y-metallic shape placed on top of a building, this is called
lightning arrestor. "The lightning arrestor is used to trap the power
discharged from lightning and this comes with a lightning power of about 20
billion watts, while in Nigeria we are generating 2,600 megawatts of power.
The voltage lightning comes along with 330 megavolts,
while we are generating 330,000 megavolts. So you can see that there is a far
cry between lightning energy and hydro electricity which the country relies on.
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