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The SETUR Turbine, a novel hydropower turbine pioneered by engineer Miroslav Sedlácek and team at the Czech Technical University in Prague, exploits a novel hydrodynamic principle - a rolling fluid principle (vortex dynamic) - making it possible to generate electricity in small, previously untapped water reservoirs such as tidal streams, small rivers and brooks. This rolling fluid principle was discovered by Miroslav Sedlácek in 1993. He used...

This documentary charts the journey of illiterate women from villages around the world with no electricity, who attend a course in India to learn how to make solar panels. They don't speak English, but they are determined to learn the technology, so they can help their communities back home. Those who have completed the course have returned to their villages and brought the sun home to more than 300,000 people.