Alfons is obsessed with a field most people still overlook: "Energy Harvesting".

"If you think about how many micro-movements and deformations are happening everywhere, you start to realize the gamechanger for energy and climate crisis is directly in front of our eyes. Roads are just the beginning."

Energy is constantly being wasted, in vibrations, in pressure, in the subtle flex of infrastructure under load. The reason energy harvesting never made it onto the map during the energy crisis wasn’t a lack of sources. It was a lack of the right energy converter. The best mechanisms we had simply weren’t good enough to turn unpredicable movements into a profitable business.

So he built a better one.

He financed six years of research himself, working weekend jobs - from serving to cleaning to finance work - to keep the project with fulltime work alive. He defended his invention against two universities. Starting from zero again in a 20 m² room, Alfons developed the REPS mechanism, a fundamentally new approach to converting small mechanical displacements into usable energy.At one point, he dismantled his own washing machine and reprogrammed its motor to build a winding machine prototype  and went two weeks without clean clothes because progress mattered more. It costet €150 instead of €5000.

Six years later: a globally granted patent. A mechanism 200x times more efficient in the field of energy harvesting than anything else on the market, capable of unlocking the commercial viability of energy harvesting.

In November 2025, the world’s first and only operational road power plant went live in the Port of Hamburg.

Alfons doesn’t believe in waiting for energy systems to change.

He builds the mechanisms that make them change.