Video of the Author of “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”

I first heard about the story of, William Kamkwamba, a young resourceful African man, several months ago when I stumbled across an article about this young man who learned to build windmills out of materials that he found and which supply electricity to his village.
When he first started building windmills, he was 14, and not in school. Watch the video or better yet order his book if you want to learn more.

I just love stories about people like this because their stories offer so much hope. It almost inspires me to try to make one in my own back yard.

If you want to purchase his book, the widget below was copied right off of William Kamkwamba’s blog.

I love it,  he didn’t even know about Google. What is amazing is you look at what this young lad was able to accomplish with so very few resources. I am sure he will be able to accomplish some amazing things with all the resources that he now has at his disposal.

So What do you think of Mr. Kamkwamba’s story?

Tags: wind mill, William Kamkwamba

Written by Pixelhead on October 24th, 2009 with 22 comments.
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Windspire Turbine

As wind farms become more and more common across the rural landscape, urban areas are also going to want to take advantage of the power of the wind. As anyone who has visited the windy City, the possibility of using wind turbines is unlimited.

This new type of propeller-less windmill, the Windspire uses technology that the Egyptians used for grinding wheat over 3000 years ago.

The Windspire is manufactured by Mariah Power. I was reading their blog and see that they have a Windspire at a Vineyard in New York. I just might have to take a trip up to NY and check the Windspire out for myself.
I would love to get one of these for my house, which is on top of a hill and usually gets a pretty good breeze on most days.

How about you? How would you like to get your electricity from a Windspire?

tags: Windspire, wind farm, wind energy, environment,wind mill

Written by Pixelhead on September 28th, 2009 with 51 comments.
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NonTurbine Wind Generator

This is such a cool invention, inventions like this really give me hope for the future.

Since I have not done an environmentally related blog post for some time, I thought why not share it with the peeps.

Pretty cool If I do say so myself.
What about you, have you heard of any cool environmentally related inventions?

Written by Pixelhead on September 17th, 2009 with 23 comments.
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