Wessel Badenhorst's Page

January the first came by me once again, but this year the party is different. I'm still overlooking the parade. My friends are drinking the same cocktails. If it weren't for the excitement, the parade below would seem stale. But this year everything seemed fresh and new. The town counsel spend months digging up every tar road for miles, and replacing them with strange slabs. At midnight the electricity was turned off. The band began to play. The march started and in an instant the wh*** town… Continue

Every day I get up at 5:40 and my brother and I hit the gym for a workout. We decided to save the money we would spend every month working out in a regular gym, and bit by bit build up our own home gym.



During the last 2 years our local power company ESKOM (from South Africa) raised their tariffs significantly, and plan on doing so every year for the next 4 years. This made alternative energy production instantly viably.



All our pulley systems, rowing machine, treadmill,… Continue

A young man from Malawi spent some time reading about windmills, the knowledge that he gained from this process lead to the adventure of a lifetime, but more importantly, it lead to a revolution for the people around him. Having light at night is something we take for granted so easily. I realized from this story that with a little imagination and the drive to make it happen, nothing is impossible.



William Kamkwamba show us that you do not need a deep understanding of the elements of a… Continue

In the spirit of the game I'm building a small tunnel to grow most of my vegetables in a very small space using tiered grow boxes and a solar panel to power the pumps and circulate the air. If this projects works, and once I have perfected the system, I will have a grow system that can be duplicated in any terrain on earth (or maybe not even only on earth) The system is self sustaining and a such do not need expensive infrastructure to be rolled out into the world's most rural locations.