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My name is Paul L. Wilks. I am writing about my new invention named “The Power Light Wagon.” How the wagon came about was, seven or eight years or more ago, I was working on a project on how to have electricity when the power was off in my house for my family when it was not available.

I put my idea on my truck first so that when the power went out, I could plug into the truck and have power. I put holes in the floors of the house and ran extension cords up through the holes in the floors. One day my wife found the holes and “that was not good.” I began telling her about what I was working on; to have electricity any time you need it and anywhere. She asked me a few questions and I told her it was going to take time and money to do this.  So she gave me some money and said take this and use what you need to make it happen and if it doesn’t work, take what is left and put it down on a divorce lawyer (“HAHA!”). I had to make this work, because I didn’t want to go through a divorce because she is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

The power went off one night and I plugged into my truck to have electricity and it was nice. We had the T.V., the microwave, phone, lights, refrigerator, but the next day the power was still off and my wife and I had to get ready for work. I had to leave first, so that left her without power. That had made me feel pretty bad. I got to thinking if I could make my idea mobile I wouldn’t have to take the power with me. So, I got to thinking hard about this and one day as I was driving west on Interstate 64 and listening to 93.7 The Dawg and looked across the highway and saw a pickup pulling a trailer, it “Hit Me!” The trailer was a cut off from another truck and that is what I needed to make my idea work. From there I filled out a Patent on my idea and went to work on it trying to put this all together. With the support of my family and friends, I knew I could make this work. Just think we have something that can provide electricity anytime and anywhere, and we don’t have to listen to a generator and help the environment with needing renewable energy, and this could help on the solutions with Global Warming. If we would have had this after the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, people could have had a power source.

So work will continue on the “Power Light Wagon.” There is still a lot of work to do and it’s up to us to lessen emissions into the atmosphere and that’s what we need: to be Eco-Friendly.

Yours truly,

Paul L. Wilks