Bullock-cart wheel set to `light up' rural lives? By Our Staff Reporter A student demonstrates the model at the technical festival at Osmania University College of Engineering in Hyderabad. HYDERABAD, FEB. 19. The symbol of rural transport can now produce power that can light up villages sans power bills. A group of engineering students from Adilabad district have designed a model that produces power using the bullock-cart wheel! The model is based on the function that when the wheels of the cart rotate, the mechanical energy of the wheel is converted into electric energy using power transmission system and an alternator coupled to it. The exhibit, which is being displayed at Techsonance-2005, the annual technical festival of the Department of Electrical & Electronics Department of the Osmania University College of Engineering, has attracted lot of attention given its earthy solution to generate electricity using the bullock-cart, widely used by farmers in villages....