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Person standing beside a large black twin-propeller apparatus mounted on a floating platform, with an orange crane and wooded hillside in the background.
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Andrew Walz grew up tinkering in a garage in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Today, he’s helping a German startup harness rivers for renewable energy.