Solar Cells — Made In a Pizza Oven

stylemessiah writes "The winner of several Eureka Science Awards in Australia is a crafty chick who devised a way to create solar cells cheaply using a pizza oven, nail polish and an inkjet printer. This was developed to address the high cost of cells and in particular for the world's poorest regions. She wanted to give the ~2 billion people around the world who don't have electricity the gift of light and cheap energy. This could have profound (and a good profound) implications for education and health in those in the poorest regions in the world. And it all started with her parents giving her a solar energy kit when she was 10..."

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Re:Sexist and trivializing characterization.

[EWAdams]

No, you can't. Not if you want anyone to take what you have to say seriously.

Let's be clear: "chick" means "nigger."

[EWAdams]

It also means spic, wop, kike, dago, polack, beaner, honky and raghead. It's pejorative, and anybody who thinks otherwise has his head up his ass.

The only people who may use it safely are those who choose to use it of themselves.

Re:Right...

[ShieldW0lf]

Sure... if you release it for free they can't patent it, but they can sure offer your widget at a lower price... right up until you've gone under, at which point they can -- and will -- raise the price again. Show me some proof that things can't work as I say, and I'll accept your argument. Until then, just keep telling me it's bullshit, and I'll keep thinking you're wrong.

It doesn't work that way with drugs, now does it? You still see Ibuprofen, Acetiminaphen, Acetylsalicylic Acid on the shelves, right? At prices FAR below Advil, Tylenol and Aspirin. If you were right, even in principle, these generic drugs would not be available, and yet they are. You're ignoring reality and spouting bullshit to support your predetermined position, most likely because either you too would like leverage over the vast number of us some day, or you already have it.

Re:"Crafty chick"

[budgenator]

You just don't get it, if your a conservative male that sings the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and invents an environment saving patented technology that take 5 years to commercialize your a scum of the Earth fat cat capitalist pig lackey of the big oil companies and the military-industrial complex; but if your a liberal female that sings the "Kumbaya" and invents an environment saving patented technology that take 5 years to commercialize your the savior of the Planet.