{"id":7730,"date":"2009-10-03T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/10\/03\/kid-in-malawi-builds-homebrew-wind-power-system\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:24:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:24:56","slug":"kid-in-malawi-builds-homebrew-wind-power-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/10\/03\/kid-in-malawi-builds-homebrew-wind-power-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Kid in Malawi Builds Homebrew Wind Power System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgb5U_PfzFkpY8YiND7j5jangFx-tbbAlokYwpAVYpZbzxeSyq1t59GM-4Szuamub2JLh4rtzyk9pqL1TzGam9MeHd6eF_WmooDBLfECjOiKr8vCrOUVAKyVdJpqDCXUOBvA0riyLxH5I8\/s1600-h\/windmill_large_image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/windmill_large_image.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388240714823977522\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This is a very nice story. Inspirational stuff. Young William Kamkwamba wanted to bring electricity to his family. So he went to a library, got some plans for a windmill, then gathered the parts and built one. <br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Ancient_WindmillDiagram675.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 229px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Ancient_WindmillDiagram675.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388241581498078434\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/williamkamkwamba.typepad.com\/\">http:\/\/williamkamkwamba.typepad.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very nice story. Inspirational stuff. Young William Kamkwamba wanted to bring electricity to his family. So he went to a library, got some plans for a windmill, then gathered the parts and built one. http:\/\/williamkamkwamba.typepad.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-wind-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7733,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions\/7733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}