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Teenager Builds Solar Panel from Human Hair

By on September 9, 2009 in Ideas

Kids these days are always inventing something!

Daily Mail Online:

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.

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    Kids are rapidly evolving, it’s simply amazing how Young Inventors can come up with a life changing worldwide solution, Not to mention the comparison of equipments from a rural village to a modern high-tech science facility. They definitely belong there, proves that age is only a number, every person and child has the potential to create.

  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    I think that is great! If they could make solar panels cheaper, imagine how many people would use them. I also had no idea hair was that useful.

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  • http://www.diysolarpanelskits.com Ben

    Looking to try it out but is it really easy to set it up? And yes I agree with you we should always try everything to save our lovely environment.