Nigerian engineer, Obayagbona Emmanuel Imafidon, says that a device he has been working on since 2006 can power Nigeria and all of the African continent with uninterpupted power.

A big claim and a real game changer if it’s true.

The graduate of Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Management and Technology in Enugu said his device generates power from thunder and lightning. He said:

“I have been researching on generating constant power from thunder lightning. That is using a strike of thunder lightning to generate power that can serve Nigeria and Africa for five years and 30 days. That means that whenever thunder strike for once, we are sure of uninterrupted power for five years and thirty days.”

He went onto say:

“One may think it is not possible and if it is possible why the western world has not converted lightning to electricity, but what I have developed so far is a prototype. There are five chambers including the trapping zone which is made of lightning arrestor. There is the storage zone and the conversion zone, which convert static energy into current electricity and transmit the energy into transmission zone. The transmission zones will first of all step down the power from as high as five mega volts and there are five storage zones that have the capacity of storing over 25 mega volts of power.

“When it stores the 25 MV of power, the conversion zone takes one mega vote at a time, send signals to other sensory zones which shut down other sensory zones from discharging at the same time. Now the transmission zone of the power generating plant will step down the megavolt to whatever Nigerians need.

“For instance, Nigeria is generating 330,000 megavolts, but my device generate 5 million volts and then give Nigerians their 330 KV and still have about 4670, 000 megavolts left as reserve.”

The device has a long way to go to be fully operational but any advancements in this field should be taken with interest and researched completely!

You can see him describing his device below and read more in his interview with Nigeria’s Guardian here.