Samuel Chan Bol Deng, a South Sudanese high school graduate, has designed wheel energy to promote electricity connection amid fuel shortage that has affected economy of the world’s youngest republic.
The wheel motor is designed in a way it is connected to a generator as its main source to start the wheel before it is switched off, leaving the dynamo produce power to drive the wheel and produce energy.
Bol, who was born in 1991 in Akoch village in former Warrap State, fled to Kenya during two decades of civil war.
He grew up and pursued formal education in the East African Nation and it was while in high school that he developed an ambition of becoming an electrical engineer.
After South Sudan independence from Sudan in 2011, Bol returned to the country with the hope of furthering his studies in electrical engineering.
“Being home, with great hopes and aspirations, I started feeling the responsibility towards the community I lived in, where ordinary people find it hard to get satisfy their basic need for power/electricity which is critical for the daily activities,” Bol told Xinhua at his working station on Wednesday.
Bol said, he quit his job with a water company where he was employed as an operation manager only to work towards fulfilling his dream.
The design, he called “community wheel energy,” was his contribution to helping provide a renewable source of power to enable residents to have power, since capital Juba has no electricity provision.
“My dream is not only to create power source, but also to use a technology on other inventors like boat, sub-marine as well as electric vehicles,” he told Xinhua.
Bol, 26, said after graduating from high school in Kenya with the basic knowledge of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics, he believe he can invent a new technology out of natural resources.
“The technology does not exist without other power sources, therefore, I use generator power or any other power storages to start the wheel that can now run nonstop,” said Bol.
He revealed his invention started in 2012 where he successfully invented the same wheel energy but was limited only to households in the then Yei town which is now a State.
Young Bol said he has completed 70 percent of the invention but the work has come to standstill due to lacks of sponsorship to purchase a dynamo that can supply more than 50 households.
“Building medium power for community is very crucial and it is needed to support the current situation of high rise of crime rate in the capital,” he noted.
However, Bol decried lack of moral and financial support from the government, and called on well wishers, especially foreign embassies, non-governmental organizations to support him in importing the equipment particularly from China or Japan to achieve his dream.
Bol looked determined despite the challenges and said he will become the first South Sudanese to develop a technology that will help the world fight global warming.
Youth in this oil-rich conflict-ridden young African nation make up about 70 percent of the country’s population, but hundreds of thousands of young people are facing an uncertain future. Enditem
Source: Xinhua/NewsGhana.com.gh
