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AIMS Energy, 2015, 3(4): 851-868. doi: 10.3934/energy.2015.4.851
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Feasibility study of a wind powered water pumping system for rural Ethiopia
1 School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;
2 Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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