You might not be familiar with Manoj Bhargava by name and face alone but you might be familiar with his product: 5 Hour Energy.

Bhargava was born in India and moved to the United States in 1967. His wealth stands at $4 billion and counting. Because that is more money that he personally means, Bhargava publically pledged to give 90 percent to 99 percent of his wealth to charity.

The way he’s going to made good on his promise is by creating and producing technology and tools to solve and help alleviate the lack of necessary resources for people to live a better quality of life.

For example, he plans to distribute 10,000 stationary bikes to India in an effort to provide electricity to millions of homes.

“It’s so simple that we think we can make it for $100 … A bicycle repairman anywhere can fix it,” Bhargava said.

When the bike is pedaled it turns a turbine generator that creates electricity, stored in a battery. He has funded hospitals in India through his cutting-edge Stage 2 Innovations Lab in Farmington Hills, Michigan which he established in 2011 with former Chrysler CEO Tom LaSorda.

“It’s the most well-funded playhouse for engineers you can possibly have,” Lab Engineer Kevin Moran said.

By 2016, Bhargava plans to test the first 50 bikes in 15 or 20 small villages in Uttarakhand, before larger distribution of the bikes. The bikes will keep lights and basic appliances going for an entire day with just one hour of pedaling. Bhargava said, “This is going to affect a few billion people.”

He has created and built this stationary bike to power the millions of homes worldwide that have little or zero electricity. Bhargava, who dropped out of Princeton University after a year due to boredom and then lived in ashrams in India for 12 years, isn’t just stopping at bikes providing electricity. He’s also working on ways to make saltwater drinkable, enhance circulation in the body and a way to secure limitless amounts of clean geothermal energy—via a graphene cord.

Graphene, in laymen’s terms, is a thin layer of pure carbon that’s a single tightly packed layer of carbon atoms that are bonded together in a hexagonal honeycomb lattice.

In his documentary, “Billions in Change,” Bhargava said, “If you have wealth, it’s a duty to help those who don’t…Make a difference in people’s lives. Don’t just talk about it.”

Ajaita Shah CEO of Frontier Markets – a company selling solar lamps for rural households and lighting kits in India – said, “It holds huge potential and opportunity for rural households…I’d like to test the bike with her rural customers.”

Manoj Bhargava and his team have also come up with innovative ideas in health, water and energy. It’s engineering Renew, a medical device that functions as an auxiliary heart by squeezing blood from the legs into the body’s core.

To address drought, their building the Rain Maker is to convert 1,000 gallons an hour of any kind of water into drinkable water.

Bhargava said, “Potable water could be piped from offshore barges with this machine.”

He has an even grander idea – one aimed at nixing the world’s reliance on fossil fuels, which emit greenhouse gases when burned. His answer to alleviating and/or eliminating pollution is to tap into the heat from deep beneath the Earth.

While geothermal energy is already widely used in some countries, including Indonesia and Iceland, Bhargava aims to takes a novel approach.

Rather than using steam -mixed with chemicals – to bring the heat to the surface, he would instead pull it up with a graphene cord. He notes graphene is stronger than steel and an incredible conductor of heat.

“You don’t need to burn anything…Once you bring it up, you don’t change any of the infrastructure,” he said, explaining that utilities could simply distribute it instead of coal, oil or natural gas.

Bhargava estimates this type of geothermal could replace 85 percent of today’s fossil fuels. He said, “I think someone’s going to kill me,” with a laugh because this ingenious idea could upset totally throw a wrench into the geopolitical atmosphere.

He’s working with a graphene research center in Singapore to develop a cable and plans to have pictures available later this year. He’s very animated when talking about his plans and sees the most immediate potential in Free Electric. He says it could provide electricity for the developing world and offer post-storm backup power in wealthier countries.

Bhargava said he won’t be giving the electricity bike away for free because “People won’t take care of something that’s free.” Instead he would prefer to incentivize distributors with profits. Village can also pool its resources, buying one bike but multiple batteries can be swapped out to power individual homes.

He’s not creating these three products: The Rain Maker and Free Electric and lastly the medical device Renew to draw attention to himself and gain fame. He’s creating these products to give something useful for help people make a living and take care of their families.

He said, “I want publicity for the project but not for me.”

Manoj Bhargava keep up the good work.