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12-31-09, 06:36 PM
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Journeyman EcoRenovator
Join Date: Dec 2009
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The Boy Who Built A Wind Turbine
Hello All,
I just found out about this: a 14 year old boy named William Kamkwamba, from rural Malawi gets a book from the library that has pictures of windmills. He is inspired, and he builds a prototype, and then a fully functioning wind turbine that generates electricity for his family, on a tower completely from found materials, in about 2 months. Here's a short documentary video about his story: Moving Windmills: The William Kamkwamba Story | Moving Windmills Project He has since built a second twin rotor turbine, and they now can pump water out of a deep well. Pretty amazing stuff. He has also spoken at TED: |
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01-05-10, 09:43 PM
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Lurking Renovator
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He is a talent
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measure your local wind speed and blade diameter ,then use formula to calculate the outputs in watts, Test wether you build homemade wind turbines or not. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. |
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