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kristenremenar 's review for:
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by William Kamkwamba
I am still in awe over the accomplishments of this young man, William Kamkwamba, who built a windmill from scraps to bring electricity to his home in Malawi. As a teenager, William didn't have money to go to secondary school, so he continues his education on his own via the public library - shout out for public libraries!!! - finds books on physics and energy, and teaches himself how to build a windmill so he and his family can have electric lights. Mind-boggling what this teenager is able to do with scraps and ingenuity, and really raises the question: if an impoverished, self-educated teenager can find a way to get clean energy for himself, why aren't we?