Manoj Bhargava is an Indian American businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Innovations Ventures LLC (dba Living Essentials LLC), the company known for producing the 5-hour Energy drink. By 2012 the brand had grown to do an estimated $1 billion in sales. In 2015, Bhargava pledged 99% of his net worth to improving the well-being of the world's less fortunate.

1. REPORT
Manoj Bhargava’s Way of Generating 2 Successful
Idea’s .
By - Rajat Sharma.
1) Manoj Bhargava's innovative plan to offer free electricity in India –
when they met on a July afternoon in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was unimpressed with
Manoj Bhargava.
The Indian-American waxed eloquent on how he wanted to use most of his wealth, estimated at $4
billion, to help poor people, and Modi remained mostly quiet during the 45 minutes.
"He didn't think I was real," the 62-year-old recalls, two days after he unveiled a machine to bring
power to dark homes in November.
Named Free Electric, the stationary cycle can light up 24 bulbs, run an electric fan, and charge a cell
phone and a tablet when pedalled for an hour.
Designed in a $100-million engineering laboratory called Stage 2 Innovations, located in Bhargava's
25-acre suburban corporate campus in Farmington Hills, Michigan, 10,000 of these cycles will be
handed out in India early next year - gratis.
Once launched commercially in March, the cycle will cost Rs 12,000 to Rs 15,000.
With a sleek frame, a battery and a turbine generator, the machine is as uncomplicated as the man
behind it. In his white and blue check shirt, tucked inside blue trousers, topped with a sleeveless black
cardigan, Bhargava walks into the lobby at The Oberoi in New Delhi, with his son, Shaan, in tow.
The 24-year-old Michigan State University graduate helps schedule meetings for his Princeton-dropout
father who goes without a full-time assistant.
Father and son know their solution is unconventional. "The experts will laugh at us," says Lucknow-
born Bhargava, rubbing his forehead to erase the tilak left over from a havan the previous night.
"It is in the nature of experts to find flaws in great inventions. Thomas Edison, I'm sure, had the same
problem."
Experts do have reservations. Leena Srivastava, of The Energy and Resource Institute, believes the
cycle might find takers among fitness-conscious urban dwellers but it will only add to the tediousness

2. of rural life.
"It is like adding salt to the wounds of rural folk," she says.
Will farmers find the time in the busy harvest and sowing seasons to peddle the cycle?
Besides, with 100 per cent electrification and adequate power becoming a distinct possibility in the
near future, Bhargava's cycle could stare at an uncertain future.
But the man who hopes to power millions of homes around the world cares little - all he wants to do is
"fix the earth", though he admits that "it sounds insane".
At least three leading Indian bike companies have shown interest in manufacturing Free Electric
locally, he claims.
This past month, Bhargava was busy gathering support for his cycle.
"Free electricity is coming," announced full-page advertisements in leading newspapers. "I have to get
every constituency together," Bhargava says, shedding his characteristic carefree demeanour.
“If there's no ground support, there would be opposition from politicians."
There's ample ground support in Uttarakhand where the first 50 Free Electric cycles will be tested in
nearly two dozen villages before the launch.
When Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat rode the cycle at his Bijapur residence in Dehradun
on Thursday, the bonhomie between the two men was palpable.
"We are working on the same wavelength," Rawat said. Not for nothing has Bhargava pledged to invest
Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion) for development in the hill state.
"Uttarakhand is the land of Badrinath, Kedarnath, Bhagwan Shankar," Bhargava declares, his
American accent dropping when he utters the last four words." I want to start where everything
originated."
Bhargava grew up on the first floor of a two-storey house off a busy road in Lucknow's Khayali Ganj.
Today, the neighbourhood overflows with traffic, noise and litter. Rows of kiosks that sell second-
hand text books, household items and inexpensive garments crowd the pavements.

3. 2) Manoj Bhargava's Rain Making Concept in India –
* RAINMAKER FOR BRACKISH WATER :
Bringing Unusable Wells into Service
Brackish wells are everywhere around the world. And while brackish water isn’t as salty as ocean
water, it’s still too salty to drink or to use for irrigation. The RainMaker for Brackish Water is a
filtration unit that removes the salts and other minerals from brackish water and makes it suitable
for both human consumption and agriculture. The device is intended for use at the village level. It
simply attaches to the well and starts working immediately, cleaning water at a rate of 5-10
gallons per minute. And unlike other water filtration devices, this one uses very little energy. It
takes just 1.5 kilowatts, which is about as much as a hair dryer, so a small generator can power it.
If enough brackish water can be turned into fresh water, the water crisis in some regions can be
delayed for several years, if not decades.
*RAINMAKER FOR GREY WATER:
Making Any Source Safe To Drink
The RainMaker for Grey Water is a small, self-contained unit that uses a series of filters to purify
any type of dirty water—river water, sewage water, bacteria-filled water, well water—and makes it
fit to drink. Similar to the other filtration device, the RainMaker for Grey Water is intended for
use at the village level and can be installed and used immediately. But this device requires even
less energy. The RainMaker for Grey Water purifies up to 8 gallons of water per minute with an
electric pump, but if electricity is not available, it can also be used with a manual pump or a bike
pump.
References-
1. http://www.rediff.com/business/report/pix-special-manoj-bhargavas-innovative-plan-
to-offer-free-electricity-in-india/20151207.htm
2. https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Report.