<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/008505bf-744b-4c97-8143-8baa4ee90e63/79656440-B408-49A8-ACF5-1386F862DE74/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/09/09/nepalese-teen-invents-cheap-solar-panel-using-human-hair/" href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/09/09/nepalese-teen-invents-cheap-solar-panel-using-human-hair/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.inhabitat.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/09/09/nepalese-teen-invents-cheap-solar-panel-using-human-hair/"><DIV class="post-header"> <H2 id="post-60436"><A title="Permanent Link to Nepalese Teen Invents Cheap Solar Panel Using Human Hair" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/09/09/nepalese-teen-invents-cheap-solar-panel-using-human-hair/">Nepalese Teen Invents Cheap Solar Panel Using Human Hair</A></H2> by <A title="Posts by Bridgette Meinhold" href="http://www.inhabitat.com/author/bridgette/">Bridgette Meinhold</A>, 09/09/09 </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/09/09/nepalese-teen-invents-cheap-solar-panel-using-human-hair/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.inhabitat.com/img/E0476053-5E86-49AD-A277-680675917263" alt="human hair, nepal, nepalese teen, innventor, teen innventor, solar panel, solar power," /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/09/09/nepalese-teen-invents-cheap-solar-panel-using-human-hair/"><P>Did you know that <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin#Melanin_in_humans">melanin</A>, the pigment in hair, is light sensitive and can be used as a conductor? Well, that’s what an 18 year old in Nepal recently discovered, and is now using human hair to replace silicon in solar panels. Since the price of hair is considerably cheaper than silicon, this enterprising youth may have just found a <A target="_blank" href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/25/spray-on-solar-cells-energize-almost-any-surface/">breakthrough technology</A> to help bring down the cost of solar and give thousands of people in developing nations access to affordable renewable energy.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/79656440-B408-49A8-ACF5-1386F862DE74/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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