ISLAMABAD: A 15-year Pakistani boy Shahmir Khan Niazi has won the fourth prize for his project related to renewable energy at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2016 in Arizona, United States.
The ISAF programme of Society for Science and the Public is the world’s largest pre-college science fair competition.
Each year, more than 6 million young scientists from around the world attend the fair and 1,600 are selected as finalists to share ideas, showcase cutting edge concepts and compete for over $ 4 million in awards and scholarships, said a press release issued here on Wednesday.
Niazi, who is a student of Beaconhouse School System Lahore, was given the award for his work ‘A New Spin on Renewable Energy in Physics’ in the energy category.
The principle behind Shahmir’s project is to combine the eco-friendly system of a wind turbine or any turbine and use it to utilise the most reliable renewable source of energy; ocean currents.
Attaching the turbine on the ocean floor is expensive and difficult to maintain so the project plans to design an oil rig system which instead of having a drill has a turbine attached to a shaft which is lowered into the ocean to generate electricity.
The shaft is stabilised using ball barring generators which are designed to work seamlessly with the whole structure.
Tapping into these ocean currents mean that mankind can quite possibly lay the foundation to the green future we all dream of.
To judge the projects, more than 1,000 science, engineering, and industry professionals volunteered at the Intel ISEF.
