Rural Energy: Power Play for the People

The idea of supplying free electricity to farmers has created political ripples across the country based on the belief that supplying electricity for free would be an onerous option for the Government as electricity production is expensive. Chandrakant Pathak a mechanical engineer from Gujarat remarks that free electricity for farmers is not all that impossible and it is quite an easily achievable goal and points that anything that moves can be used to generate power. He has invented an array of interesting improvised power generating gadgets to suit the needs of rural people.

This article documents all those interesting innovative power generating and modified power-consuming gadgets of everyday use, like motor pumps, flour mills and even electric vegetable shredders that could run on manual or bullock power. He believes that if accent was placed on local power production by the people, not only would the cost per unit of power come down dramatically, but the entire power problem would become non-existent in a few years.

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