UNB, Dhaka :
The local inventor of a new technology for power generation using gravitational energy is seeking financial support from the government or local entrepreneurs to commercialize his project.
“We want either the government or any local entrepreneur to come up with financial support to make it commercially viable,” said Shahid Hossain, the inventor of the technology styled ‘Heavy Circular Moving Object’s Triggering Energy (HECMOTE)’.
He made the funding pitch while addressing a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club on Saturday. Renowned scientist Professor Dr. Shamsher Ali is endorsing the new technology as Shahid’s chief adviser.
Shahid’s concept is rooted in the conversion of gravitational energy into a new kind of force to generate electricity, bypassing conventional fuels like diesel or gas to rotate the turbine of a generator.
A special device will capture the gravitational force from a heavy circular moving object and use the energy to rotate the generator’s turbine, to produce electricity.
Speaking at the press conference, Dr. Shamsher Ali, a former president of Bangladesh Science Society, said he has been supporting the
idea as a new breakthrough in electricity generation. According to Dr Ali, also a former member of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, some degree of automation in the process can ensure its commercial viability.
Shahid says he has already received a huge offer from international power and technology companies to give up the patent on his invention.
“I did not accept their offers since I would prefer HECMATE technology to be used first in Bangladesh, being an energy-hungry country”, he said.
He said he has designed a 5 MW power plant with lifetime of 30 years and cost Tk 40 crore. Production cost of each unit (per kilowatt hour) will be Tk 0.75, which is significantly cheaper than the cost at which the government buys electricity from power plants using existing technologies. There would also be savings in terms of the fuel costs.
Shahid, a student of Diploma Engineering at a private college, has already set up a 65 KVA power plant at Tongi on a pilot basis and has been generating 50 kilowatt electricity from the plant.
Shahid’s legal advisor Barrister Nasir Uddin informed that he had been working for the new technology to obtain a patent registration from the USA patent office.
“We are hopeful of getting the patent right as no such technology exists to generate electricity through gravitational force,” he added.
Shahid Hossain first announced his invention almost a year back, and sought local and international help to commercially apply his technology for power generation.
Following his announcement, so far some 20 local and international firms from across the globe have contacted him and offered to commercialise his technology.
The local inventor of a new technology for power generation using gravitational energy is seeking financial support from the government or local entrepreneurs to commercialize his project.
“We want either the government or any local entrepreneur to come up with financial support to make it commercially viable,” said Shahid Hossain, the inventor of the technology styled ‘Heavy Circular Moving Object’s Triggering Energy (HECMOTE)’.
He made the funding pitch while addressing a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club on Saturday. Renowned scientist Professor Dr. Shamsher Ali is endorsing the new technology as Shahid’s chief adviser.
Shahid’s concept is rooted in the conversion of gravitational energy into a new kind of force to generate electricity, bypassing conventional fuels like diesel or gas to rotate the turbine of a generator.
A special device will capture the gravitational force from a heavy circular moving object and use the energy to rotate the generator’s turbine, to produce electricity.
Speaking at the press conference, Dr. Shamsher Ali, a former president of Bangladesh Science Society, said he has been supporting the
idea as a new breakthrough in electricity generation. According to Dr Ali, also a former member of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, some degree of automation in the process can ensure its commercial viability.
Shahid says he has already received a huge offer from international power and technology companies to give up the patent on his invention.
“I did not accept their offers since I would prefer HECMATE technology to be used first in Bangladesh, being an energy-hungry country”, he said.
He said he has designed a 5 MW power plant with lifetime of 30 years and cost Tk 40 crore. Production cost of each unit (per kilowatt hour) will be Tk 0.75, which is significantly cheaper than the cost at which the government buys electricity from power plants using existing technologies. There would also be savings in terms of the fuel costs.
Shahid, a student of Diploma Engineering at a private college, has already set up a 65 KVA power plant at Tongi on a pilot basis and has been generating 50 kilowatt electricity from the plant.
Shahid’s legal advisor Barrister Nasir Uddin informed that he had been working for the new technology to obtain a patent registration from the USA patent office.
“We are hopeful of getting the patent right as no such technology exists to generate electricity through gravitational force,” he added.
Shahid Hossain first announced his invention almost a year back, and sought local and international help to commercially apply his technology for power generation.
Following his announcement, so far some 20 local and international firms from across the globe have contacted him and offered to commercialise his technology.
