Washington Prep students exploring the Solar CITIES Culhane Tab Torch
Channel: PORPOISE Robotics
Date: 2012-04-25

Dr. T.H. Culhane teaches 'under-served' youth around the world how to turn trash into added value product believing two mottos: "one man's garbage is another's gold" and "information longs to be free".  By teaching and publishing every discovery he makes under the "creative commons license" he hopes to ensure that nobody can patent ideas for poverty alleviation and environmental restoration and keep them out of the public domain.  The idea that waste aluminum foil and cans and other discarded metallic garbage can be used as a source of electricity for universal lighting and for charging portable electronics is something that is the birthright of every human, just as the transformation of organic wastes into fuel and fertilizer belongs to all humanity. When we waste no more and all people have a decent life then and only then should life saving and dignity giving designs be considered for profit.  In Culhane's opinion, closely guarded intellectual "property" should remain in the domain of luxury items, not necessities. Hopefully nobody will  be able to keep the scientific principles and design improvements that make renewable energy possible for people to implement at the home and community level a secret.  Thanks for listening!