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the boy who harnessed the wind notes :spiral_note_pad: :wind_blowing_face:
the boy who harnessed the wind notes :spiral_note_pad: :wind_blowing_face:
William Kamkwamba
2: he had to drop out of high school because a shortage of water, needed to grow maize, his family's source of money. When you are : in secondary school, you need to pay school fees, that they could not afford
3: he was 14 years old when he build a windmill
4: he wanted to build a windmill so he can earn money to go to school again.
5: he learned to construct a windmill from a book that he read in a library about windmills
6: One difference between the resources William had available to him, and the resources we have here, is that we have a bigger variety of materials than he has in a poor town. If William had a wider variety of materials available to him, he would be able to construct a better and more sturdy windmill. he would have to deal with the lack of materials he had access to him. here in America we have a enormous amounts of variety that would be more than enough to construct 40 windmills. William would have been astonished to see how much materials we have.
7: the two interesting facts that I found fascinating about William was that he is innovative, and conservative.
1: he lives in Malawi, Kasungu.
Malawi
1: Malawi is in Southern Africa, east of Zambia
2: most people in Malawi earn money by farming. 90% of people are farmers
3: some struggles in Malawi are floods, famine, Droughts, HIV, AIDS, malnutrition, and exploitation.
4: some traditional beliefs in Malawi are Catholic and Protestant
5: I found it astonishing that there were so much poverty, and that the kids in one school did not have spoons and hardly any plates
Famine :forbidden: and drought :non-potable_water:
1: a drought occurs when there is more demand on water than the reproduction of water a famine is when population does not get enough to eat, children face malnutrition, and when the death rate doubles. they are similar because they both have a lack of something needed
2: the staple crop in Malawi is corn
3: there is a shortage of maize corn in Malawi because an outbreak in crop munching army worms
4: the impact the food crisis has on Malawi is that there are many people cannot eat, which leads to malnutrition, that could kill people.
5: other facts are that a drought means that farmers can no longer farm. A famine means that people need to move or convince people to donate food for them.
Wind energy :wind_blowing_face:
1: Wind is moving air
2: wind can be turned into energy by using a Windmill
3: renewable energy is an energy source that can be reused and will not run out
4: a windmill is a renewable resource because it a material that does not run out, it does not pollute the environment
5: a windmill works when the propeller spins, which turns a shaft connected to a generate, that then produces electricity
6: that it is only moving air, not a substance. Another thing is that it is made out of hot air and cold air, and when the warm air rises, the cold air takes its place