Water as fuel: In Swat, a self-taught engineer has a solution to the energy crisis

Claims if his unique design is applied at a large-scale the power crisis can be resolved in three years.


Fazal Khaliq May 14, 2012

SWAT: While the country witnesses its worst energy crisis, a 37-year-old self-taught mechanical engineer from Swat claims to have a solution.

After 20 years of research, Rehan Aziz Farooqi, has invented a unique power generator that runs solely on water, and, wait for it, the design can be used to allow any engine that runs on petrol, diesel or green gas to use water as fuel. He estimates that if the government applies his idea on a large-scale, Pakistan’s current electricity crisis can be resolved in three years time.

Explaining the workings of the power generator that he built from scratch, Farooqi said that water is first filled into a unit where it is split into hydrogen and oxygen gases through the process of electrolysis. The hydrogen gas is channelled to a reservoir, and then to an engine to be used as fuel to generate electricity.

“As water is abundantly available, electricity generated using this process will in fact be free of cost,” he exclaimed.

Farooqi claims to have spent more than Rs2 million on his invention and now requires the government’s permission and support to help him launch the product in the market. He has also asked the government to help him set up a research centre to find further applications for his invention.

“I have designed a method to power hydro turbines using this technology, which can go a long way in overcoming the electricity crisis within a few years,” he said. He also claimed to have drafted a method to generate electricity using the earth’s radiation.

Farooq said he does not want to hurry into launching the water-powered generator before making sure that the technology is a 100 per cent safe. Hydrogen is the lightest and most explosive gas, explained Farooq, and warned that even technical experts should proceed with caution if they are attempting to produce it in labs or their homes.

Apart from his major feats, Farooqi has initiated many other small research projects for children, in which he claims to prepare electricity using vegetables like tomatoes and potatoes. “Anything which has iron can generate electricity with a magnetic field. I can prove that practically if anyone wants,” he said. He added that he wants to teach people so that they can take up such projects themselves.

He urged the youth to put their creative abilities to work and help resolve the country’s issues.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 14th, 2012.

COMMENTS (111)

asad | 11 years ago | Reply

This is not electrolysis. Kindly read more about Stanley Meyers fuel cell. He used such a device which required a pulsating DC to be the input to the plates which were immersed in water. KOH was added as a catalyst. He called his device as the Water capacitor. This guy has not made anything new. There are two possibilities here 1) He replicated the Stanley Meyers devices which is a big achievement. 2) He used conventional electrolysis which is not a big thing. Secondly Water is the fuel source here. Its called hydrogen gas on demand. You can make hydrogen on demand from the load. for example if you push the accelerator of the car it demands more petrol. The concept is similar if you push the accelerator a water car will demand more hydrogen which will be produced by using the fuel cells which in turn use water as their fuel. SO YES WATER IS THE FUEL HERE!!!

Pagla | 11 years ago | Reply

@Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad: This guy is trying to kill the first and second laws of thermodynamics which has NEVER BEEN POSSIBLE. If people complain on the general lawlessness in the society, they should cry and probably kill themselves from shame if this guy is being appreciated for ignoring those laws.

And Mr Engineer guy who made this, READ THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE.

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