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Teenager invents £23 solar panel that could be solution to developing world's energy needs
UK Daily Mail ^
Posted on 09/10/2009 1:45:49 PM PDT by mnehring
A new type of solar panel using human hair could provide the world with cheap, green electricity, believes its teenage inventor.
Milan Karki, 18, who comes from a village in rural Nepal, believes he has found the solution to the developing world's energy needs.
The young inventor says hair is easy to use as a conductor in solar panels and could revolutionise renewable energy.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: humanhair; nepal; solarpanel
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:45:49 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: mnehring
Even the “bright idea” bulb has gone CFL?
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:46:40 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Joe Wilson speaks for me.)
To: Yo-Yo
LOL, I didn’t even notice that..
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:47:29 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: mnehring; Slings and Arrows
Alternate technologies use static electricity obtained by stroking a housecat.
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:48:58 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama outright called his critics "liars" in his speech last night. Where's the apology?)
To: mnehring
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:49:02 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
To: mnehring
Does this mean Al Gore can shave Rosie O’Donnell’s back and turn a profit?
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:49:31 PM PDT
by
Callahan
To: mnehring
Well yes it might, but a coal power plant is a sure thing. I have serious doubts about this ruse. And why exactly do we prohibit these poor countries from doing anything to improve their standard of living — Ask a liberal.
DDT would also help, cheap, easy to produce, easy to deploy, hurts nothing, except pests and oh yeah, kills malaria and west Nile virus carrying mosquitoes.
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:49:51 PM PDT
by
Tarpon
(The Joker's plan -- Slavery by debt so large it can never be repaid...)
To: mnehring
I bet he’s got a perpetual motion machine up his sleeve, too.
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
What a hair brained idea!
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:50:48 PM PDT
by
FMBass
("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
To: mnehring
Let T Boone Pickens run his whole business on it first. Then I’ll try it.
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:50:54 PM PDT
by
exist
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Aw come on, it makes good barbershop conversation!
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:50:55 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
To: mnehring
“The young inventor says hair is easy to use as a conductor in solar panels and could revolutionise renewable energy.”
Well that could grow on you.
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:50:58 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: mnehring
Maybe he should try spider webs?
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:52:24 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: mnehring
Ummm... I’ll eat my words and kiss my own rear end if this is anything but a snow job.
Never in my 40+ years of chemistry sets, telescopes, microscopes, digital voltmeters, etc have I ever heard that human hair exposed to sunlight suddenly develops this magical electric potential!
Now I did know a couple gals during and since college that had long hair and were pretty electric, but that’s not what this is about!
;-)
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:53:12 PM PDT
by
djf
(I ain't got time to read all the whines!!!)
To: mnehring
Doesn’t the solar panel problem get “solved” about every six months or so for the last 30 years?
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:54:03 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: mnehring
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:54:55 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(It's better to give a Ford to the Kidney Foundation than a kidney to the Ford Foundation.)
To: All
Physical properties and technological applicationsAbsorption spectrum of melanin
Melanin is a
biopolymer and a
neuropeptide. In the early 1970s, researchers found melanin to be an
organic semiconductor (Science, vol 183, 853-855 (1974)). Studies revealed that melanin acted as an electrical threshold switch, emitting a flash of light
electroluminescence when it switched. Though the findings were published, these findings largely were ignored. Melanin also shows negative differential resistance, a classic property of electronically active, conductive, organic polymers. In 2000, the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists for their later 1977 work in the discovery and development of conductive polymers. The polymers utilized in this research were "polyacetylene black" melanins.
The original discoverers of switching and high
electrical conductivity in melanin and related
organic semiconductors were not honored in 2000. However, their melanin organic electronic device is now in the
Smithsonian Institution's
National Museum of American History's "Smithsonian Chips" collection of historic
solid-state electronic devices.
Melanin influences
neural activity and mediates the conduction of radiation, light, heat and kinetic energy. As such, it is the subject of intense interest in
biotech research and development, most notably in
organic electronics (sometimes called "plastic electronics") and
nanotechnology, where
dopants are used to dramatically boost melanin conductivity.
Pyrrole black and
acetylene black are the most commonly studied organic semiconductors.
From: http://en.allexperts.com/e/m/me/melanin.htm
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:55:23 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: djf
See post #18..
Work on those yoga poses.
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:56:16 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: mnehring
Yet another hare-brained solar scheme?
I’d much rather mine for King Coal, or drill for black gold....Texas Tea......
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posted on
09/10/2009 1:58:21 PM PDT
by
EyeGuy
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