VIDEO: Filipino Inventor Figured out How to Cut down on Gas Expenses

They say necessity is the mother of invention and it couldn’t be more true!

Poverty in many third-world countries has been increasing fast over the last years.

This upsetting fact has determined one Filipino man to look for a way to reduce his expenses and he came up a ‘water-supplemented stove’, which helps cut down on gas.

Check it out in the video below!

According to Viral 4 Real, in the Philippines, many poor families opt to use coal or firewood when cooking, especially with the price of gasoline rapidly increasing.

However, using wood and coal can be a difficult job, especially when cleaning up. Seeing how this has become a problem for many Filipinos, an inventor from Cotabato created a stove wherein the fuel used is water. He calls it “water supplemented stove’.

According to the inventor, the stove still needs gas, but the gas ‘extracted’ from the water adds to the fuel, therefore allowing users to save 20%-30% gas. However, many netizens were sceptical about the video.

According to Wikipedia, an invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process.

The invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process. It may be an improvement upon a machine or product or a new process for creating an object or a result. An invention that achieves a completely unique function or result may be a radical breakthrough.

Some inventions can be patented. A patent legally protects the intellectual property rights of the inventor and legally recognizes that a claimed invention is actually an invention. The rules and requirements for patenting an invention vary from country to country and the process of obtaining a patent is often expensive.

Another meaning of invention is cultural invention, which is an innovative set of useful social behaviors adopted by people and passed on to others.

The Institute for Social Inventions collected many such ideas in magazines and books. Invention is also an important component of artistic and design creativity. Inventions often extend the boundaries of human knowledge, experience or capability.

The idea for an invention may be developed on paper or on a computer, by writing or drawing, by trial and error, by making models, by experimenting, by testing and/or by making the invention in its whole form.

Brainstorming also can spark new ideas for an invention. Collaborative creative processes are frequently used by engineers, designers, architects and scientists. Co-inventors are frequently named on patents.

In addition, many inventors keep records of their working process – notebooks, photos, etc., including Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Evangelista Torricelli, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.

In the process of developing an invention, the initial idea may change. The invention may become simpler, more practical, it may expand, or it may even morph into something totally different. Working on one invention can lead to others too.

History shows that turning the concept of an invention into a working device is not always swift or direct. Inventions may also become more useful after time passes and other changes occur. For example, the parachute became more useful once powered flight was a reality.