Students from Usman Institute of Technology have put together ‘Burraq’, a low-cost, water-powered turbine
KARACHI:
It took four months of hard work and sleepless nights, and investment of Rs150,000, diligence and dedication and firm belief in an imaginative initiative for Saad Sarmad and others in his team of four to materialise ‘Burraq’.
Sarmad, along with Abdullah Ali, Malik Muhammad Ali and Zafeer Ahmad Khan, all budding engineers from the Usman Institute of Technology, have put together a low-cost, water-powered turbine, which, they believed, could be of significant help in addressing electricity shortage.
Power-starved countries have vied for cheap energy sources and eco-friendly ways of generating them, and Pakistan is no exception.