Young African Built Windmills from Garbage (19 pics)

Posted in PICTURES       15 Mar 2011       13764       14 GALLERY VIEW

A resident of Malawi William Kamkwamba built five wind turbines from scrap materials power. The idea to build a wind turbines came to William in 2002 when he was expelled from school for non-payment. A 14-year-old decided to educate himself and began visiting the local library, where he saw the image of a windmill on the cover of the 8th grade American textbook called Using Energy.

 

It took about three months to build the first windmill of 5 meters high which could provide electricity to his village and was also used to charge the mobile phones. The windmill was then extended to 12 meters to better catch the wind above the trees. Another windmill he built was used to pump the water for irrigation.

 

William Kamkwamba is now 22 years old and a student at African education is paid by the sponsors.



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skydancer 13 year s ago
He is an absolute genius!
       
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iziwhaat 13 year s ago
go watch his interview with John Stewart...freakin classic
       
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JJ 13 year s ago
That's Great! Good for him!
       
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Lewis 13 year s ago
Respect
       
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steeve blowjob 13 year s ago
yeah! now thay can buy ipods! so cool
       
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tim 13 year s ago
thats so cool ,, he is another redneck doing what we do so well.. Making do with what we got ....
       
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laughinggas 13 year s ago
"Nothing" is wasted in 3rd world countries.
       
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zuzu 13 year s ago
so at first they didn't have energy,but they had mobile phones?wtf?
       
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hgfhfdhf 13 year s ago
nicely done kid! reminds me of "stuck with hackett"
       
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Apu Kalipshis 13 year s ago
and the source???????
Hey Izi, you don't do the interview and take the pictures!!!!
       
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Belin 13 year s ago
A big genius !!!
       
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stupid 13 year s ago
the word 'genius' is not only in USA, GERMANY, JAPAN
       
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lilacfla 13 year s ago
great people always born with great stories.

so that they can inspire people!
       
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Labour 4 year s ago
... piping and copper wiring looks freshly stolen from somewhere. Just observation.
       
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