Affirmative Action can be applied to anything — even invention. Before long, history will be revised to indicate that, like Anne Boleyn and Cleopatra, Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla were black. In the meantime, the demand for black inventors far exceeds the supply, providing opportunities for inventive fellows like Jeremiah Thoronka and Lawrence Hardge.

Regarding Thoronka, in 2021, the…

…then 21-year-old Durham University masters student had invented a device that uses kinetic energy from traffic and pedestrians to generate electricity. … In a pilot project in Thoronka’s native Sierra Leone, two devices had apparently provided free electricity to 150 households and 15 schools.

The revolutionary invention was worthy of John Galt. Naturally, Thoronka was showered with awards and adulation:

In 2021, he picked up the Commonwealth Youth Award and the Global Student Prize, which was presented to him by filmstar Hugh Jackman at a virtual ceremony, broadcast from the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. … There was a profile by the BBC, an invitation to give TED talks and, in May 2022, an audience with the pope. He was celebrated as a green-tech innovator, someone setting a clean-energy example for the world to follow.

After he won the 2023 Youngster Green Award at the Green Tech Festival in Berlin, German journalists showed some of the curiosity that sometimes still characterizes their profession:

They contacted the organisers of the Youngster Green Award and Greentech Festival to find out a bit more about Thoronka’s pilot project. … But the organisers said that wouldn’t be possible because the pilot had since been dismantled. They asked if the device was being used anywhere else, and were told that it wasn’t. One journalist even asked if there were any videos, blueprints or other documentation of this unprecedented breakthrough. Again, nothing was forthcoming.

Thoronka may be no inventor, but at least he is a clever guy, who knows how to make money by telling moonbats what they want to hear.

Speaking of clever guys,

Self-described inventor Lawrence Hardge created a small box to be installed into D.C.’s parking enforcement vehicles. …

Hardge won’t provide any pictures or diagrams of the device he claims to have created, but WUSA9 found a depiction on company news release posted on a federal website. It appears to be a black box that can be handheld with black and red wires coming from it. Hardge claims it will double the range of D.C.’s parking enforcement electric vehicles by doing what he calls “rejuvenating the battery.”

Electrical engineers at the University of Maryland were skeptical. No matter. Hardge didn’t have to convince engineers, but only the leftist bureaucrats who spend our money for us:

DC government awarded a contract in February with Hardge’s company. The contract says it will cost $14,000 per vehicle to install his modules and $3,000 per vehicle for “data monitoring.” That’s a total of $680,000 taxpayer dollars to refit 40 D.C. parking enforcement cars.

Given how little the Chevy Bolts are driven, the device would not be cost-effective even if it worked. But since when did anyone worry about electric vehicles being cost-effective?

According to a Jackson Advocate article out of Hardge’s home state of Mississippi, Hardge claimed in 2022 that he “had been notified by the University of Michigan, which is located only 35 miles from Hardge Global Manufacturing offices in Farmington Hills, that he is being prepped for a possible Nobel Prize nomination by the university.”

Boasts Hardge,

“They thought I was the perfect candidate.”

That he is: racially impeccable, a convicted felon (served 5 years for selling unregistered securities), and involved in the promised transition away from fossil fuels. However, it appears University of Michigan never heard of him.

Six weeks after we alerted DC about Hardge and his claims, on July 13, DC government told WUSA9 it “terminated” the contract due to “violations of terms of the agreement.”

Let’s hope that doesn’t scotch the Nobel Prize. After all, Hardge’s scam is as likely to improve the climate as any other green nonsense.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and Franco.

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