Ben Rodrigues, Inventor of Fuel Conservation Device Reotech Passes Away
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SB)
Mangalore, Mar 26: Ben Rodrigues (74), who single-handedly worked with unflinching devotion to innovate a machine, RBF OTTO TECH (REOTECH), passed away here on Saturday March 26. Daijiworld had featured the achiever in 2009.
Reotech is a fuel conservation and pollution management device, which has the capacity to save one billion tons of fuel for an eight hour operation of an automobile in a day. This device can cut down one million tons of exhaust emission for the same hour operation. It is highly economical and can help cut down global warming effect up to 90 per cent.
Ben who had his education from Padua High School, Mangalor, followed it up with an apprenticeship from Canara Workshop in 1953-54. After a brief stint in Mumbai where he worked for Bombay Electricity and State Transport (BEST) as a technician, he joined Indian army as a trainee in 1960. After the Chinese aggression he left the army and joined TELCO in Jamshedpur before settling with his own tractor service form in firm in Shimoga in 1969. He handed over the same to his nephew and came back to Mangalore in 1972 to start his fuel injection service system.
First he shifted to Baikampady in 1996 with the intention of expanding his business. But on incurring losses he sold his land property in Baikampady and settled all his dues and shifted to Padil in 2006 having left with only tools and equipments. Here he started working on the fuel conservation and pollution management project and innovated RBF Auto Hydrogenics and Global Eco Tech Asset named Reotech.