Teenager Invents £23 Solar Panel That Could Be Solution To Developing World's Energy Needs ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1212005/Teenager-invents-23-solar-panel-solution-developing-worlds-energy-needs-human-hair.html ^ | September 08, 2009

[This I Wonder32460]

£23 is how much in dollars?

[This I Wonder32460]

£23 is how much in dollars?

[Straight Vermonter]

About $38.

[headsonpikes]

Well, there is talk of paleolithic African teenagers diverting a stream to make this nuclear reactor work:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor

From the article:

“The Oklo uranium ore deposits are the only known in which natural nuclear reactors existed. Other rich uranium ore bodies would also have had sufficient uranium to support nuclear reactions at that time, but the combination of uranium, water and physical conditions needed to support the chain reaction was unique to the Oklo ore bodies.”

I blame teenagers!

[Vinnie]

new type of solar panel using human hair could provide the world with cheap, green electricity

I'm screwed. Might be able to light an LED.

[JPG]

I think that the going rate in DC is 14K per kid. They should be saving the world for those investments. As it is, if they even stay in school, it's learning gang-bang 101 and blame whitey.

[Steelfish]

$30

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

bump for later

[decimon]

If I ever get outta here, that where I’m glowin’ too...

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"In Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, many rural areas lack access to electricity and even in areas connected to power lines, users face shortages of up to 16 hours a day."

Sounds like the Obama administration's goals for America.

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

I tried it under a florescent magnifier lamp. Fluke 77 on 300mv ...nothing. Of course this is about a 6" long piece of my own very thin hair. Should be easy to find a good fat inch long dog hair to try next. I was hoping this would work.

I've got a lot of dog hair laying around, and a market that would pay for it would be cool. If they wouldn't buy it all and I still had a bunch all the time, making solar panels out of it might not be all that bad.

It does make sense to me that hair would conduct electricity, static is simply a charge waiting to be discharged. Maybe I'm using the wrong light.

[SunkenCiv]

Made From Human Hair

I have very little to spare, so forget it.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Before you pull all your hair out, use your head and that multi-meter to see if hair conducts electricity.

Also ask yourself if everyone’s hair has the same elements in it.