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"Even at a young age, Jonathan Schreiber found that harnessing the power of
wind was something of a breeze. Encouraged by his DIY-loving grandfather, the
Austrian teenager was always playing around with scrap metal, trying to build
tools. At 14, he began studying a book on how to build a wind turbine from old
car parts.
“I was fascinated by how you could build things yourself and actually create
your own energy,” says Schreiber.
But it was in 2012, when Schreiber turned 18, that his life would be blown onto
a new path. He heard about a man who was an expert in building his own wind
turbines. That man lived in Scoraig, a remote peninsula on the northwest coast
of Scotland.
So, Schreiber took a flight. Then he took a boat. And when he finally arrived,
he met Hugh Piggott, who had been working on plans for DIY wind turbines since
the 1970s. Despite Piggott being 30 years older, the unlikely duo hit it off
over their shared passion for invention, and Schreiber extended his stay from
five days to a month."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
