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Private sector should harness water flow to create green energy on open market: Marks

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, pictured, and Maxwell Simba, is about a 13-year-old boy who takes his dad’s bicycle, replaces the pedals with bamboo wind vanes, hangs it upside down high in the air so the wind would rotate the back tire and uses the dynamo to charge a car battery in order to run a water pump to irrigate a few acres of gardens to feed a starving village, writes Garfield Marks. Image courtesy of Netflix
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March 25, 2019

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