In Zhytomyr, 9th grade student Artur Pechenyuk, together with the head of the technical group Anatoly Shubin, developed a generator that runs on the flow of rainwater.
The efficiency of such a generator reaches 60%, Suspilne reports.
Shubin said that the basis of the generator was a synchronous motor from Arthur's grandfather's old car.
"Such an engine can work in the opposite direction – like a generator. The installation was placed under a gutter from which rainwater runs off, and thus received an electric current. Using a voltage booster, you can, in particular, charge a mobile phone in this way." he explained.
The head of the group noted that there are other rain generators. However, Arthur's installation uses a different method of generating electricity.
He also emphasized that it was possible to assemble the installation for only 300 hryvnias from materials at hand, and they did not buy the engine itself.
In the material, it was noted that for his invention at the All-Ukrainian competition of youth scientific and technical projects "InventorUA" the boy won a diploma of the III degree in the nomination "New materials and modern technologies".
As EcoPolitic reported earlier, Artem Dedenok, a high school student from Kherson, created a new type of ecological food sources due to biosynthesis in bacteria and food residues.
