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P ower, P olitics and P eople’s W elfare
T he M agnetron T echnology – A N ew W indow in P ower G eneration
Alamu Muda-Ayeni
Austin Macauley Publishers
2021-01-29
Power, Politics and People’s Welfare Dedication Copyright Information © Acknowledgements Synopsis Preface: Of Governance and Government Priorities Chapter 1: Between Science and State Policy Chapter 2: Electricity: The Power Base of Human Activities Chapter 3: The Magnetron: A New Concept on Faraday’s Discovery Chapter 4: Highlights of Faraday’s Experiments Chapter 5: Applications of Faraday’s Experiments (i) The Magnet-and-Coil Experiment (ii) The Iron-Ring Experiment Chapter 6: The SS Magnetron: Mechanics and Techniques Chapter 7: The Hydro-Solar Hybrid: A Preview of Tomorrow’s Power Stations 1. Muda-Ayeni at Youth: HIS EARLY EXPLOITS 2. Muda-Ayeni at Youth: HIS TEENAGE FORECAST ON BRAIN DRAIN 3. The Invention of the SS Magnetron: The PUNCH Newspaper
Dedication
To the Grand Majesty of God Almighty, the living source of all knowledge. And to my glorious alma mater – King’s College, Lagos, Nigeria – which provided both the moral training and tutorial excellence required in the building of a self-confident personality.
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Acknowledgements
Against all conventional expectations of the time, my desire, early in life, to pursue the ignis fatuus or ‘will-o-the-wisp’ (as most people call voyages into the unknown) was a personal and deliberate choice taken in full consciousness of both the tough terrain and the stormy weather to be encountered in the process. Amidst the ensuing burden of demoralising experiences, the success eventually achieved, as ordained, was made possible by the pivotal roles played at different times and stages by some individuals to whom I owe a debt of gratitude.
First, I acknowledge my beacon-in-transit, Joseph Igbayilola Adebayo Sanusi, his entire household and his select company of courtiers for their steadfast love and support. Then I remember with nostalgia a unique trio that symbolise exemplary socio-political leadership: Mallam Aminu Kano, Alhaji Shettima Alli Munguno and Alhaji Femi Okunnu, all prominent political leaders and erstwhile Federal Commissioners for Communications, Industry and Works respectively. I also recall the significant contributions of many well-wishers too numerous to mention – particularly Prince L. G. Adebimpe, a most reliable friend in need; Alhaji Ibrahim Imam, a foresighted politician cum businessman; Mr Olasunkanmi Akande, a fulfilled Chartered Accountant and agro-industrialist; Chiefs T. A. Akinyele and M.S Adigun, both high-profile doyens of the Civil Service; Chief Kola Daisi, an accomplished Lawyer-Economist and investor endowed with the Midas touch; Chief (Dr) Dejo Raimi, a successful medical practitioner and principled political leader; Chief E. L. Osunkunle, a notable educationist and philanthropist; pure breed human resource managers, Messrs T.F. Dairo, Olusegun Morgan, Mrs Oyin Arowolo and Chief (Mrs) Bola Doherty; Chief James ’Dosu Babatunde, a seasoned Town Planner with a knack for professional excellence; Prof. Bashir Akande, one of Nigeria’s foremost skilful Surgeons; Dr R. A. Salawu, an established authority on the Nursing profession; Dr ’Jide Ladipo, a Forestry Expert and Consultant Environmentalist; the Rev Samson O. Bamgbose, proprietor of Olaogun Enterprises Ltd (OEL); and Mr Wale Adeoye, a learned exponent of the psychic art.
I am equally indebted to three men of outstanding repute: Dr Victor Omololu Olunloyo , a rare gem of the academia, multiple awardee of First Class (First-in-First) Certificates of Merit, Winner of 5 Undergraduate Gold Medals (in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mathematics), University Prizeman of Her Majesty the Queen of England (Elizabeth II) and a gifted state administrator of impeccable character; Dr Ayokunnu Lekan Are , a leading Specialist in Agriculture and Consultant to several world bodies including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Institute for Agricultural Development (IFAD), International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) as well as Common Fund for Commodities (CFC); and Ambassador Edward Olusola Sanu , a distinguished and amiable Diplomat – Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Ethiopia and the OAU (now AU), to Belgium and the EEC, to United States of America and Mexico, to the People’s Republic of China and North Korea, First Nigeria High Commissioner to Australia, with concurrent accreditation to New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Venezuela, erstwhile Chairman Executive Committee of ECA, Chairman Finance Committee of United Nations General Assembly, and Chairman Committee of Ambassadors of African, Caribbean and Pacific States.
To all these people, I express my gratitude for their intuitive recognition of talent and their readiness to give morale-boosting support in pursuance of goal.
Similarly, I acknowledge with thanks various institutions, authors and editors of books, newspapers or other publications cited for reference, excerpts and illustrative photographs or diagrams.
This acknowledgement will be incomplete without due reference to members of my nuclear family: my wife and my five children – Abraham lyin-Oluwa, Deborah Ike-Oluwa, John Adebayo, Itunu-Oluwa Maria and Ibukun-Oluwa Elizabeth. In the long-drawn period of search and innumerable experimentations that consumed virtually all our joint earnings, with little provision ‘to keep body and soul together’, they were collectively stoical in their faith and resilience. Thus, besides constituting an unassailable fortress of battle they were, in the stormy years of stewardship, my primary source of succour and strength. I thank them immensely for bearing the heavy cross of pioneering cheerily and without a grumble.
Synopsis
This book dwells on two crucial issues of broad human interest.
The first has to do with diagnosing and proffering solutions to peculiar problems militating against individual and communal development in third world countries with particular reference to the African continent. The other issue of compelling universal concern is the indispensable role of Electricity in human life, the need to adopt a more efficient and congenial generation system on account of shortcomings of the current generation techniques, and an informal introduction of a novel generation package now being developed.
The first test-run edition of the book (of the same title with ISBN: 978-978-48832-1-4) was published in 2012 by the Newton House Publications, a pilot small-scale outfit with limited distribution capacity. However, the need to reach out to a much wider audience, particularly in respect of commercial exploration of the new technology in view, calls for a review of the book for a worldwide distribution network.
Preface Of Governance and Government Priorities

The advent of space exploration pioneered by the Russians with their launching of the Sputnik spacecraft on October 4 1957 predictably stimulated the Americans into action to usher in a race for supremacy in that endeavour. From the initial cold rebuff of Russia’s claim by America’s then-President Eisenhower, to the more revolutionary reaction of successor President John F. Kennedy, the American people saw the space race as fundamental to their very existence and staked all they had in human, material and financial resources to run the race until the objective was ultimately achieved in America’s Apollo 11 Mission that landed the first human beings on the Moon on July 20 1969. That spectacular feat was a sequel to John Kennedy’s response to the Russian challenge in his famous inspiring words:
“I believe that this nation should commit itself to the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth. No single project in this period will be more impressive to mankind or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.”
However, in spite of winning that race and the attendant euphoria of victory, the reality soon dawned on the American people – that their priority was misplaced in view of more pressing needs at home, here on earth! In his concluding remarks on the cost of the space race to the American people, Peter Ryan wrote in his book Invasion of the Moon 1969: The Story of Apollo 11:
“…The enormous cost ($24 billion) has become an issue in American politics though, in fact, America can afford it. One American writer, Lewis Mumford, has even compared the American space programme with the Egyptian pyramids: ‘Both devices for securing, at an extravagant cost, a passage to heaven for the chosen few’, a rather cynical point of view.”
Also commenting on the issue of priority, President John F. Kennedy, the very man that excited Americans into total commitment on the space race, eventually raised his doubts when he asked his Science Adviser: “Can’t you fellows invent some other race, here on earth that will do some good?