{"id":487,"date":"2007-06-28T21:00:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/28\/windmill-builder\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T19:17:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T18:17:30","slug":"windmill-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/windmill-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"Windmill builder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lunch over IP on young Malawi windmill inventor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunchoverip.com\/2007\/06\/tedglobal2007_c.html\">William Kamkwamba, a 15-year-old Malawian (&#8230;) built a windmill in his rural village based on a picture he saw in a book. He used old bicycle parts, wooden poles, plastic pipes, and an old car battery for energy storage. The windmill now powers four lights and two radios in his home, and he&#8217;s working on a larger model to help with irrigation. After he told his story on stage, a number of TED attendees banded together to support him financially to complete high school and go onto university.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/soyapi.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/malawian-teenage-windmill-maker.html\">Soyapi&#8217;s blog<\/a>, another Malawian TED attendee. <\/p>\n<p>(update)<br \/>\nAnd William&#8217;s own blog at: <a href=\"http:\/\/williamkamkwamba.typepad.com\/\">http:\/\/williamkamkwamba.typepad.com\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunch over IP on young Malawi windmill inventor: William Kamkwamba, a 15-year-old Malawian (&#8230;) built a windmill in his rural village based on a picture he saw in a book. He used old bicycle parts, wooden poles, plastic pipes, and an old car battery for energy storage. The windmill now powers four lights and two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogafrica","category-general","category-malawian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-7R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}