Malawi high school dropout builds wind generator from book

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posted 17 years ago

I thought folks would enjoy this. Perhaps all the things we think are too complicated for us really aren't...

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posted 17 years ago

So he connected a fan to bigger blades? I'm guessing it was a DC fan that would then charge a battery? And the radio was a DC radio?

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posted 17 years ago

And the young man's blog is here: http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/

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