Smart Students Find Special Way to Generate Electricity Through Car’s Movements on Road, Video Goes Viral

• TTI students from Takoradi have found a way to take off streetlights and traffic lights from the national grid
• The students have been able to mechanize speed ramps in a way that generates power whenever cars move over them
• This energy is then used to power the lights so they do not stop functioning whenever there is a power outage

Students from the Takoradi Technical Institute (TTI), a second-cycle institution in Ghana, have come up with a breathtaking innovation that is taking social media by storm.

The students who were featured on High Schools Africa, a Ghanaian-owned YouTube channel created to unearth talents in Ghana's high schools, demonstrated on camera how their model operates.

How the power is generated

According to them, whenever a car moves over the specially-made speed ramp, power is generated and stored within a battery.

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This power is then transmitted to the traffic lights or street lights that are connected to it.

The students explained that the purpose of this project is to take the streetlights and traffic lights off the national grid and prevent them from going off whenever there is a power outage.

Social media reactions

Pascal Genole mentioned:

"This is a great idea. The problem is there shouldn’t be a speed ramp at a traffic light. Secondly the speed ramp needn’t go down when it is loaded. They can solve these two problems by replacing the speed ramp system with a piezoelectric material. Great idea nonetheless."

Stephen Asare indicated:

"Good job. Ghana youth this what we are expecting from you. We will fix our country even if our leaders refuse to think."

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Watch the video below

University built tricycle

Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU) took to its official Facebook page to share the news of building Ghana's first solar tricycle.

The post sighted by Legit.ng revealed that the invention was unveiled by the university on Wednesday, December 15, 2021.

The Central Regional minister, Hon. Justina M. Assan, and Mr. Frederick Ken. Appiah, a representative of the Energy Commission, were present at the event.

According to the post, the Solar Tricycle was designed and produced by the Engineering Design & Innovation Centre of CCTU with support from the Energy Commission of Ghana.

Source: Legit.ng