Two Nigerian men win a tech prize of 230 million, invent zero carbon cook-stoves for carbon emission reduction.

Dr Samuel Adekunle and Johnson Jayeola, both from Nigeria have won the See Through Carbon competition worth $500,000 (230 million) as they invent zero carbon stoves

The two intelligent men worked together on a project to reduce carbon emission in the environment and better people’s lives.

Dr Adekunle works as a researcher in construction and the built environment at the University of Johannesburg.

Johnson is a chemist, industrial researcher and ‘climate actioneer’ who is the director of environment & sustainability, and a managing partner at Fring Integrated.

Their work is aimed at providing zero-carbon cookstoves to those in rural areas.

“My project is substituting the usage of firewood for cooking with Powerstove (a zero carbon biofuel cooking system driven by pellet fuel) and the data gathering procedure will involve sensitization of locals about carbon and its effects.” Johnson said.

Two men invent cooking stove

Adekunle, an alumnus of the University of Lagos who also bagged his PhD from the University of Johannesburg, said his interest in climate change began when the flooding in Lagos continued to take a nosedive.

Data was gotten from monitoring emissions at two of Africa’s biggest airports, Lagos and Johannesburg, as well as downtown areas in both cities.

In a video, Dr. Adekunle responded to questions on the topic asked by technical and political Experts with regards to his award.

Standing out among many in a press release from the competition’s management, the two projects stood out among the numerous applications received.

Dr. Adekunle emphasized the need for enlightenment:

“Most of the people on the streets don’t even know about it [carbon emissions]. So how do we even cascade this from our ‘ivory towers’? How do we bring it to the ordinary man on the street to say ‘you must be involved in what is affecting us all’?”

In Conclusion, he called out to young people to help fight carbon emission.

Nigerian engineer invents non-electric ventilator “ShiVent”, wins the “One To Watch” Award at the Africa Prize for Engineering

Meanwhile, a Nigerian inventor, Engineer Yusuf Bilesanmi won the “One To Watch” award after his ventilator, ‘ShiVent’ won the engineering contest.

Yusuf, 37, obtained his first degree in Law at Lagos State University, before he proceeded to study engineering.

In a YouTube video, ShiVent was shown to have completed functionality testing at the National Centre for Sports and Exercise and Medicine at Loughborough University, UK.