| One in six people in the world lack stable access to electricity. Many people must rely on dangerous and toxic kerosene lamps as a primary source of light and spend upwards of 30% of their income on this kerosene. With the increasing development in small scale solar technology, there is no reason why individuals and families should not have a safe, less expensive, and more reliable source of light. Battery or fuel-powered lighting solutions have the obvious disadvantage of recurring cost and limited resources. On the other hand, most renewable lighting solutions require expensive components and are large and difficult to ship. GENergy’s solutions provides the means of generating energy on the go via kinetic energy resulting from natural body movements of a person. GENergy is essentially a handlebar similar in dimensions to a toothbrush consisting of a solenoid electromagnet in full electrical communication with small rechargeable battery, a full wave rectifier (to convert AC signal to DC) and at least one LED in full electrical communication with the rechargeable battery. |
