Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba and co-author of his new biography Bryan Mealer spoke at the first-ever GES speaker event on October 2 2009. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind published in 2009, focuses on William’s impoverished childhood and efforts to build a wind turbine out of refuse in his small Malawian village.  Forced to quit school at 14, William taught himself the basics of electricity and mechanics from school books that were often in English, a language he himself did ...