William Kamkwamba: How I built my family a windmill

http://www.ted.com When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book.

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[kmanr1990]

Read his book "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind"...very inspiring!

[worries]

He is so inspiring, built a freaking wind mill from scratch at 14. Just wow. And I don't think he had prior knowledge of electrical physics. Kuods.

[ShaKambondE]

The Guy is good, but the interviewer sounds a tad bit condescending to me. The conference seems to be a good way forward. For the World at large.

[MainOffenderKZ]

Inspiring story!! makes me wanna build my own windmill.

[TheGreenSnuggie]

I read his book...this dude is a genius. He can absorb so much information from such a tiny source, for example; he read one or two little tattered books IN ENGLISH, which he just barely spoke at the time, and built..THAT. At the age of 14.

[andreeaweed]

grate kid i love the way he talks and he has charisma too

[dceokusa1]

This man is remarkable. A self made engineer at the age of 14. I think he must have also had to learn a very difficult language....English. I looked at one video where he was visiting MIT. His English had improved significantly. I would like to read "The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind".

[LizzMusica]

I watched this video and read the book at the same time. :)

[xbox360fanatic123]

School reading

[slim2kev]

I think this is the conference he first went to in Tanzania. They talk about in the book

[slim2kev]

I started reading his book last night and I just got done with it, very uplifting

[sonofeloah]

@DrMMHMD You should really change your name to DrHate. If you had checked out all of his videos and accomplishments you would have read that he was also using one to pump water for crops. But no,,,,, DrHate here did not read much or check out any of the other videos and is too busy with his racial hatred showing who the real ignorant one is here and might be the real thief.