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Watch this teenage MacGyver fight famine in Africa with only a picture, junk scraps, and a dream. If this guy can build a renewable energy source with scraps, what’s stopping a huge country like America? We have the resources and the smarts – how do we take advantage of these alternate energy technologies on a…

Ray Flores

Jul 3, 2013

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