Locally invented power generation tech gets good response

The Bangladeshi inventor of a new technology for power generation using gravitational energy has received encouraging response from local and international power and tech companies. The main feature of the new technology, invented by Shahid Hossain, managing director of Ultramax Power Development Ltd, is ‘Heavy Circular Moving Object’s Triggering Energy (HECMOTE)’. It generates electricity through using gravitational force instead of any fuel, including fuel oil. ‘The special device captures the gravitational force from heavy circular moving object and rotate the generator to produce electricity,’ Shahid said. Last year in December, Shahid announced his invention and sought local and international help to commercially apply his technology for power generation. Following his announcement, so far 20 local and international firms across the globe have contacted him and offered to commercialise his technology. ‘We’ve received about 20 offers from different local and international companies and organisations to commercially use our technology, develop power plant and generate electricity, he said. He informed that 40 per cent of the offers came from abroad, including the USA, Germany, Poland, South Africa, Singapore, India and Pakistan. ‘USAID also showed interest and offered us to work with them,’ he said. ‘At present, my top preference is to register the patent of my technology with US patent authority to secure my technology. We’ve already applied with the department concerned in the USA for patent registration through a legal expert,’ he said, adding ‘Currently, eminent scientists Prof Dr Shamsher Ali is supervising the technology,’ according to a news agency.