Skinder Gull
A 20-year-old youth from Awantipora in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district has managed to generate electricity from a traditional Kashmiri firepot- ‘Kangri’ and charge the mobile phones from shoes.
Suhail Ahmad Parray (20), a resident of Chersoo area in Awantipora, his brother Abrar Ahmad Parry (16), & cousin Mazim Ashraf (15), have come up with the invention a few days back, where the bulb lights up after getting heated up from the Kangri.
Similarly, mobile phones and batteries could also be seen getting charged from the shoes, which left many in surprise.
Suhail Ahmad Parry speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that it took him around twenty days to stabilize the temperature necessary to produce the electricity from the Kangri. “I used basic types of equipments in the completion of the project such as bulb, rechargeable cells, thermoelectrical cooler, electric wires etc.”
Suhail further exlained, “while mechanical energy is released by foot when walking or running, which is a major energy source.”
Therefore, one of the most attractive options for harvesting energy from the body in shoes has the potential to convert mechanical stress into electrical energy which manages to charge the mobile phones and other relevant things from it explained Suhail.
He said that Abrar and Mazim have supported him from time to time and have played a key role in these inventions. “I am working on another project these days which will come up with a new invention soon.”
Suhail and his associates believe that their innovations may help the common man a lot, particularly in the winters, in order to survive frequent power cuts in the valley.