Andrew Cunningham has it in for diesel generators. “No one really knows for sure, but it is estimated that there is a $300 billion installed estate of diesel generators [globally],” says the serial entrepreneur.
Developed economies are just as hooked on them as developing ones are, he adds, before anyone says they provide affordable power in poor countries. “It is pretty horrible,” he says.
Fortunately, Cunningham, 61, has spent the last 17 years or so developing an alternative generators that are quiet, reliable, spew out water from their exhausts rather than toxic fumes and are made at the famous Parsons Works in Newcastle, the birthplace of the steam turbine.
GeoPura’s generators use excess renewable energy that would otherwise be wasted to split water into hydrogen and oxygen at an electrolyser factory
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