Happy Friday All!!
How’s everyone doing?? We have made it to another Friday. It was a big rocky there in the middle of the week and yesterday. We went and had an awesome adventure on Wednesday and then Ash got super sick on Wednesday night and is only now recovering. I wasn’t feeling the best but nothing compared to poor Ash. So that hasn’t been fun but the end is near hehe. Today’s doodle is a doodle page. Some random doods.
Good news of the week:
Colrerd Nkosi had all the junk he needed—and the will to bring electricity to his small village in Malawi—and he not only accomplished his goal, but won an award from the Queen of England.
Using a repurposed corn-shelling machine motor and a fast-moving river, Nkosi created an electric turbine that’s now lighting up homes for him and his neighbors for free in the town of Mzimba.
In the beginning, he put a bicycle in the river and brainstormed about how the current moved the pedals, and how it might be turned into power. Then, he used an old refrigerator compressor that converted power for 6 homes. His neighbors were clamoring, so he continued to upgrade.
According to the self-taught inventor, his latest turbine has the potential to produce enough power to provide electricity to 1,000 homes and says another turbine can be installed downstream to expand the grid. Pretty damn amazing.