Nigerian citizens that have solar powered inverter can help increase the alternative source of power that will stop epileptic power outages in Nigeria forever.

With Nigeria constantly experiencing power outages every day, there are vast majority of residents and commercials with gasoline (petrol) and diesel generators. These generators are becoming public nuisances to the environment, causing noise and air pollution.

Thankfully, the alternative source of renewable energy development is ongoing, with solar and hydro as their major priority. Also, the Buhari’s administration is taking a step on discouraging the sales and use of generators and replace them with inverters.

Unlike generators, inverters make no noise and use battery to generate electricity but the inverter batteries rely on public power supply and electricity from generators to charge. So therefore, inverters cannot totally replace generators. Now, there is a permanent solution for that which is the use of solar panels.

Solar energy technology has improved over the years. New improved designs produce higher efficiency, improved appearance, greater performance, and better return on the solar investment. Since the sun constantly baths us with photons of light and heat energy every day, it is our duty to harness its energy more efficiently.

Any homes, offices, factory and so on that uses inverters with batteries charged with solar panels installed on their rooftops, not only will no longer rely on generators anymore, it will greatly reduce their dependent on public power supply in Nigeria, which is not always constant. It will even add a greater benefit to homes, offices and so on. Their energy bills and energy consumption will largely reduced by feeding their excess electricity from solar panels to the national grid once their batteries are fully charged.  I hope the Nigerian governments are looking toward the great ambition.

Governments can manufacture, import or produce equipment required to connect individual’s solar panels to the grid, make policy agreements with various power providers like Ikeja Electric, and so on. Also, some sort of state community codes and requirements.

If all is well, the entire city of Lagos can become a giant power plant generating up to 700MW of power to other states in the country if every houses and office buildings in the city becomes grid-connected solar power systems. Epileptic power outages will be a thing of the past. Even, generators will be phased out completely.

Reviews on new movie, “Suicide Squad”

The movie “Suicide Squad” is a superhero film based on DC Comic antihero team of the same name. It is the third film set on the same fictional universe with “Man of Steel” and “Batman Vs Superman – Down of Justice”. The Movie is set on the aftermath of the death of Superman in the second movie.

Although the movie received overwhelming negative reviews from the critics, but the general audience gave the movie positive reviews mostly in the performance of the actors especially, Will Smith’s performance as Floyd Lawton “Deadshot” was impressive, as well as Jared Leto's and Margot Robbie's performances as The Joker and Harley Quinn. These duo has the most unhealthy and dysfunctional romantic relationship ever seen in the history of Hollywood movie. The Joker as a psychopathic super villain, and Harley Quinn as a funny, crazy, scary and seductive super villain. 

To me, the final battle in the movie isn’t impressive. As the main antagonists; Enchantress and her brother Incubus, attempting to lay waste to mankind, starting from downtown Midway City; (a fictional city resembling the city of Chicago in the same state of Illinois, U.S.), I expect the effects on the battle to be on an epic proportion much like in the two previous movies. The effects look much like the one seen on low-budget TV shows.

you wouldn't regret watching it in the theater over popcorn and drinks because of the great casts, sound effect and story line. But that been said special effect of the final battle took away the excitement and thrill i felt at the beginning. 

Can a Spaceship about 3,000 miles in diameter land on a planet, and take off easily as depicted in “Independence Day: Resurgence”?

Our Planet as well as our solar system is young compare to our entire universe. The universe was estimated to be about 13.8 billion years old while our solar system with our planet Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. Recently, astronomers had discovered thousands of other solar systems in a small 3000 light-years long band in our milky-way galaxy, estimating that countless of other solar systems exist throughout the universe.

Many of the confirmed solar systems are about twice the age of our system and some of them have at least one potential earth-like planet. Plenty of time for any intelligent life on that planet to evolve to technologically advance civilization far more superior than ours. So superior that they can even build a planet-size space-ships. Now, can a space-ship with its diameter roughly the same as the moon’s diameter safely lands on a planet the size of the earth and then, take off easily as depicted in the movie? According to the theoretical physicist it is impossible unless anti-gravity technology is generated on that ship.

First of all, gravity is an attractive force between objects, big or small, living or non-living. It is the force that keeps you on the earth. It is the force that keeps planets in orbit around stars, moons around planets, asteroids or any smaller bodies in space around stars, planets, each other and so on. Anti-gravity on the other hand, is an idea of creating a place or object that is free from the force of gravity. In other words, it’s a hypothetical force opposing the force of gravity. It does not refer to the lack of weight under gravity experienced in free fall or orbit, or to balancing the force of gravity with some other force, such as electromagnetism or aerodynamic lift. Anti-gravity had been a recurring concept in science fiction novels, movies and TV-shows, particularly in the context of spacecraft propulsion.

Scientific experiments on how to generate anti-gravitational force had been ongoing for decades and till now the experiments  had been unsuccessful to the point that it is considered highly unlikely that anti-gravity is possible. Maybe our current technological advancement is not allowing that to happen. Perhaps intelligent Alien life with superior technology was able to achieve that in the distant past, even weaponize it as depicted in the movie. 

The malevolent alien beings used anti-gravity as a weapon of mass destruction to devastate Southeast Asia all the way to Middle East as shown, pulling up buildings, cars, people, ships, etc in Singapore in the picture on the left.

As the spaceship moves over Europe, the weaponized anti-gravity was deactivated allowing the objects picked up from Asia and Middle East to fall back to earth in a catastrophic proportion, seen in the picture on the right as the world's tallest building from Dubai with other debris falling into London.

  

In reality, any super advanced alien beings would have preferred setting their massive mother-ships in orbit around their target planets other than landing on it, releasing smaller spacecraft on the planet. They would prefer harvesting energy from the star other than the planet’s molten core.

WOW! The first scene from “Captain America: Civil War” was shot in Lagos … or was it?

“Captain America: Civil War” is one of the most highly watched and anticipated movie this year, and had received positive reviews from the critics. Now, The Nigerians as well as Naija movie lovers have one more reason to look forward to the movie, some of which the first scene of action sequence will be on the streets of Lagos.

Leaked photos show Captain America in his costume being surrounded by people in what looks like an Oshodi or Ojuelegba parts of Lagos, complete with the yellow danfo buses, taxi cabs and the heavy foot traffic.  However, when I watched the movie, I saw some slight differences. Even though, I was very impressed with the way Lagos was depicted. I once thought the depiction of Lagos, Nigeria will be the stereotypical Hollywood story of suffering and barbarism. It actually depicts the true tale of hustle and flow. However I was quite disappointed with the way Lagos was pronounced as “Lah-gos”

 The entire scene was shot in Atlanta, Georgia in the U.S. with special effects and African and African-American actors. In the CGI effects, I saw some buildings and roads similar to the existing ones in real life Lagos. They are as follows:

UBA Headquarter, Lagos Island.

   

    



     Independence House, Lagos Island.

       

       

        Oshodi-Apapa Expressway on the left side with cluster of residential towers resenbling the ones at Ikoyi on the right. Picture on the right, Oshodi-Apapa Expressway intercepting ikorodu road.

   

   

      

        Above: Residential Towers along Ahmadu Bello Way, Bar Beach, V I together with   Intercontinental Hotel Victoria Island in the picture on the left in comparison with the movie footage.

In addition to the danfo buses and yellow taxi cabs, a blue BRT bus and some couple of Okada riders along with the over loaded dump truck was also shown. Product brands such as Milo and Maggi was seen. The Nigerian Police in the movie were neatly dressed in light blue and black uniform and carries Pistols in their waist belt, compared to the real life Police, all dressed in black, carrying Ak-47 Rifles as if they are going to war.

 Meanwhile, here are some on-set photos and snap shot photos. Hollywood movies now showcasing Nigeria and other African countries positively will surely change the way the rest of the world views Africa for the better and will encourage investment in the entertainment sector especially.