{"id":338304,"date":"2017-07-21T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T12:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=338304"},"modified":"2017-07-21T12:04:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T12:04:37","slug":"ghanaian-innovator-develops-e-turbine-to-generate-electricity-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=338304","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian innovator develops e-turbine to generate electricity [Audio]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An innovator and lecturer at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region, Dr. Mark Amoo Boateng is seeking a $300,000 to enable him develop a programme to monitor the country\u2019s ocean systems.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Boateng, a civil engineer, has a number of innovations to his credit including an electronic turbine for generating electricity.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently the only African semi-finalist in the ongoing 7 million dollar Shell Ocean Discovery XPrize which could fetch him US$ 4 million if he emerges the overall winner.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the <strong>Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> on Friday, Dr. Boateng highlighted some of his innovations including developing world\u2019s fastest optimization algorithm, as well as a UV [ultraviolet] light technology that heal wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Boateng, a civil engineer, has also developed a system to turn starch into plastics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click below for the full audio:<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/334162135&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An innovator and lecturer at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region, Dr. Mark Amoo Boateng is seeking a $300,000 to enable him develop a programme to monitor the country\u2019s ocean systems. Dr. Boateng, a civil engineer, has a number of innovations to his credit including an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,11],"tags":[9539,9540,4464,9541,3,9542,2883,9543],"class_list":["post-338304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-top-stories","tag-9539","tag-000-support","tag-brong-ahafo-region","tag-dr-mark-amoo-boateng","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanaian-innovator","tag-sunyani","tag-uenr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}