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TweetEngineering student’s solution to power crisis
Invention: The windmill developed by K. Senthilkumar
SATHYAMANGALAM: Of the 400-plus computers at the Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, 20 are greener. They do not run on the conventional power the college gets. Powering the machines, instead, is a small windmill, put up by K. Senthilkumar, a second year engineering student.
The wind turbine is designed to run in winds blowing at three miles an hour. The regular ones operate at 23.5 miles per hour. “I wanted the windmill to run in low speeds, …
