Wind power boosts energy supply in Tanzania
14 January 2019 |
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Tamimu Kifungu is a young innovator who wants to solve Tanzania's energy problem with renewables. He is part of a group of self-taught engineers that are designing windmills to generate electricity and pump water.
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