In an at­mos­phere of un­cer­tain­ty brought on by falling en­er­gy rev­enues and dwin­dling gas re­serves, hope still re­mains for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s econ­o­my through in­no­va­tion and new tech­nol­o­gy.

I re­cent­ly spoke with poly­math and in­ven­tor Christo­pher Boodoos­ingh, who has filed a patent with the Unit­ed States Patent and Trade­mark Of­fice for an in­ven­tion called “The En­er­gy Tree – In­te­grat­ed Tho­ri­um-Pow­ered Green Fu­el Syn­the­sis Sys­tem” (US Patent 63/972,950, filed April 23, 2025).

Mr Boodoos­ingh ex­plained that his patent-pend­ing de­sign, once im­ple­ment­ed, has the po­ten­tial to trans­form Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor. The tech­nol­o­gy is de­signed to op­er­ate the coun­try’s ex­ist­ing en­er­gy as­sets at max­i­mum ca­pac­i­ty while com­mand­ing a 30 to 50 per cent price pre­mi­um in de­car­bon­is­ing glob­al mar­kets.