NEW DELHI (PTI): An Engineer of the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) of India who has developed a novel machine that taps energy from space is one of the three inventors who have been selected to receive the prestigious new energy scientists 1993 award from the United States.
The award has been instituted by the Colorado-based Institute for New Energy (INE) that was set up \in the 1980s especially lo encourage new inventions with potential for-solving world energy problems.
Parmahamsra Tewari who is currently Director of NPCs atomic power project at Kaiga in the southern Indian state of Kamataka has developed a Space Power Generator (SPG) that produces more power than it consumes.
Tewari who says the extra power is harvested from the vacuum of space has been using the energy from his SPG to split water in an electrolytic cell to produce hydrogen gas which can be used as a fuel
A message received here from INE said it was pleased to honor Paramahansa Tewari of India Bruce Depalania at the Brigham young University in Utah in the
U.S. and Dr. Shuji Inomata at the Miti electro chemical laboratory in Japan all of whom have developed successful machines that tap space energy.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 11, 1994
