VIDEO/BOOK: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

[Ryan Goble]

Read about this book in Wired :

At 14, armed with only a library book and mad DIY skills, William Kamkwamba built a windmill out of a discarded tractor fan and a broken bicycle. He used it to pump 12 volts of electricity—enough to power a lightbulb—into his Malawi home for the first time. Many inventions later, the TEDGlobal fellow recounts the story in this touching memoir.

Might be a good YA read as well...

The book at Amazon.

Also a website dedicated to the cause: http://movingwindmills.org/

Kamkwamba's TED speech - very cool stuff: