Posted on 10/12/2013 12:08:16 PM PDT by virgil283
"William and the Windmill tells the story of how William Kamkwamba built a power-generating windmill from junk parts to rescue his family from famine, as well as the subsequent changes in his life and village as a result of his invention."...This 14 year old in a third world country was tired of going to bed when the sun went down every night because his family had no electricity. Digging thru junk piles he assembled a windmill that turned a bike generator to power lights and radios for his house.... Invited to T.E.D. convention in Tanzania, wealthy donors asked what he wanted. He said he only wanted to finish school and build a windmill to pump water for the family crops so they would not suffer thru another famine...
(Excerpt) Read more at movingwindmills.org ...
Need some of that mindset over here. No guvment handouts over there.
> No guvment handouts over there.
Hope the UN, or our gubment, or some do-gooder foundation doesn’t destroy him.
Beautiful! Thanks. Passing it on.
Says in the story some wealthy folks want to give him money. It’s up to him if it destroys him. He seems pretty sharp, I suspect he’ll do OK.
Wait a darn minute! This guy is black! And EVERYONE knows that most of us don’t like black people! We can’t stand them! That’s what people say. That’s why some of us don’t like Obama they say.
Oh, that’s a lie? I knew that but people say this stuff so it must be true! Why? Because they said it.
/sarcasm off - Good for this fellow!
Sorry to burst someone’s bubble, but if he wants to pump water, he needs to build a windmill like the ones used on prairie farms in the ‘20s and ‘30’s. A bicycle generator simply doesn’t generate enough electrical power to pump a decent quantity of water.
They will never give him a Nobel prize, he is trying to make his life useful!
Great video. God bless him. Started with an idea, simple tools, crude materials and built something useful for himself and his family and others. What made America great.
Neat story, thanks.
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