kuntash: in as much I respect the courage and enthusiasm displayed by such a student.... I would like to state that , going forward regards to technology advancements and innovations, it would nice embarking on sustainable ventures or projects.

There have been many claims or discovery of inventions such as aircraft, urine powered generators , this and that.... all these somewhat seem not to be meeting the needs of what is required.

- Where are we as a country starting from? ... what can we actually boast of producing today? copying some futuristic innovations cant help out.

- The basics need be revisited.... e.g, Nigeria is known to produce better copper wires even though copper seem to be out of today's world of science, I suggest we start from there, latch on it and get its best...

- look around, every nook and crannies of naija household, for sure you would find a generator, at least I pass my neighbor... to imagine the millions imported into this country.

- starting with such little things, and consolidating on it would help a long way.

- We have good wood industry here, but imagine what is imported into the country

this kinda of putting carts before horses seem to cut across every facets of Naija system. ....

lets think about it..

silverprince413: A young Nigerian student doing his last year
in electronic and electrical engineering at
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has built
a car operating on solar power.



Segun Oyeyiola explains that his car uses both wind
and solar energy for the functioning, The Net
reports. Moreover, the man developed an
application for its installation in the car, which app
will inform the driver about the battery level,
weather conditions and other essential parameters.
In an interview to allAfrica.com Segun spoke about
how he came up with the idea and eventually
embodied it. He confessed his first motivation was
to eradicate the causes of climate change resulting
in fuel combustion.
"In the course of my research, I found out that our
regular cars contribute immensely to climate
change… If we could manufacture cars that do not
use fuel or reduce the number of cars that use fuel;
our world will be a better place for us to live in."



The student had to work and study hard to achieve
his aim, which was even harder because of absence
of electricity most of the time.
Apart from that, the final year student faced other
challenges:
"Asides the lack of electricity, getting the right
materials and text books to study as well as other
needed tools was difficult. But the most prominent
of them was the lack of funds. I started using my
personal funds which I obtained by helping people
to do their projects and a little fund my parents also
contributed towards the project."
He also explained that the resulting model is a
prototype, but not the final look of the car. Segun
hopes to develop his project into a future car for
Nigeria and Africa, as it is created with regard to our
climate.
The young man points out another important
benefit of using his auto – low maintenance cost:
"Everyone likes it and they are willing to start
driving it around town because of its low cost of
maintenance. I developed a simple software that
can be installed on our laptops and smart phones to
tell us the battery level, the weather condition, the
distance we can cover during different weather
conditions and GPS location of the car."



Enthusiastic about his project, Segun says he is not
sure whether he would like to sell the idea to some
entity, he prefers to have the project funded and
continue working on upgrading the auto:
"I would rather they fund me to put together a team
to help me perfect them and make them
commercial."
In conclusion the 30-year-old urged youths to look
for solutions to the global problems and never stop
learning something new.
"And it’s better to start anything we wanted to do
now. Let’s do what will make us happy and that
which will not affect our fellow being negatively."

AjanleKoko:



I guess the purpose of these projects is to test the student's understanding of the basic subject matter.
If the dude even coupled this together, and was able to generate some degree of motion, it's not so bad. No need for snide comments.
If you are into building stuff (I am, by the way), you basically do it for the know-how to start with. This is a pet project for the chap.

In practice the economics of building any 100%-solar-powered automotive vehicle is unrealistic for anybody. Possibly in the future, you could have solar-powered sub-orbital vehicles like you see in movies, maybe even aircraft but they'd still need fossil or nuclear fuel to get them into the skies, and into cruising altitude.

But it's still nice to see young Nigerian students trying to build stuff. I am always cheered by such news , and will definitely hire guys like this to build the stuff I want to build commercially.

MadCow1:


Cos it cant work.. Even the theory of it is greatly flawed from a scientific perspective.

That thread was very exhaustive and even people who studied renewable energy also shed light on why this would not work..

#First Obvious flaw:: Whats the amount of power that Solar panel can absord and how long would it take to gather enough energy to charge the battery that would power the motor enough to move the car. A Car made of solid metal and not alloys and composite.

#Second... How many Solar Panels have you ever seen in your life that was installed flat?! DO you know why you have never come across any?! Because the Sunlight does not fall at a 90 degree angle to the earth.


Should I keep going?!

MadCow1:


Cos it cant work.. Even the theory of it is greatly flawed from a scientific perspective.

That thread was very exhaustive and even people who studied renewable energy also shed light on why this would not work..

#First Obvious flaw:: Whats the amount of power that Solar panel can absord and how long would it take to gather enough energy to charge the battery that would power the motor enough to move the car. A Car made of solid metal and not alloys and composite.

#Second... How many Solar Panels have you ever seen in your life that was installed flat?! DO you know why you have never come across any?! Because the Sunlight does not fall at a 90 degree angle to the earth.


Should I keep going?!

all4naija: That is a Beetle car built by a Germany car company. The title of the thread is misleading.

MadCow1: Please!! This bullshiit has been busted a long time ago on another thread.

AjanleKoko:

Here we go again

Is the boy the president of Nigeria?

AjanleKoko:

Here we go again

Is the boy the president of Nigeria?

rudepen: jst as ur name connotes....MADCOW...ur mad...stop hatin n get sumtin real

Are you okay in the head?!

You should be ashamed a Mad Cow is more intellligent than you.

This is Science not Nigerian film.


#Now Fhuck off you scally wag.

MadCow1:

Are you okay in the head?!

You should be ashamed a Mad Cow is more intellligent than you.

This is Science not Nigerian film.


#Now Fhuck off you scally wag.

popson1st: For once, lets appreciate ourselves. If na oyinbo man do this we go start to dey hail them. Great things start small.

kuntash: in as much I respect the courage and enthusiasm displayed by such a student.... I would like to state that , going forward regards to technology advancements and innovations, it would nice embarking on sustainable ventures or projects.

There have been many claims or discovery of inventions such as aircraft, urine powered generators , this and that.... all these somewhat seem not to be meeting the needs of what is required.

- Where are we as a country starting from? ... what can we actually boast of producing today? copying some futuristic innovations cant help out.

- The basics need be revisited.... e.g, Nigeria is known to produce better copper wires even though copper seem to be out of today's world of science, I suggest we start from there, latch on it and get its best...

- look around, every nook and crannies of naija household, for sure you would find a generator, at least I pass my neighbor... to imagine the millions imported into this country.

- starting with such little things, and consolidating on it would help a long way.

- We have good wood industry here, but imagine what is imported into the country

this kinda of putting carts before horses seem to cut across every facets of Naija system. ....

lets think about it..

omar22:

The Oyinbo man will be sued for modifying a VW beetle and calling it his own invention