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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..."
How many solar cells do you need to power a pizza oven, anyway?
MacGyver would have done it with just the nail polish.
now we just need to figure out how to get every poor country an abundance of pizza ovens, nail polish and inkjet printers
The term 'feminazis' is sexist and demeaning. We demand to be called pro-female Fascists. From hereon in anyone who utters that degrading neologism will be executed without trial by way of snoo-snoo.
Pig.
Nah. In that case she would have been a crafty sheila.
And yes, I'm male.
*checks URL* Yep, still Slashdot.
Mod parent redundant! :P
Yeah, but this one is wayyy cool because I'm fairly certain she came up with it after watching an episode of MacGyver....
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"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."
Afforable but uses an Inkjet Printer? You almost fooled me there. With the cost of ink being what it is, it'll be cheaper to just go out and buy a solar cell.
Sorry, Al.
I don't think Outback Steakhouse would lie to me about this.
Seriously, if death by snoo-snoo is the punishment... well, I've never used the word 'feminazi' before, but I may have to start.
Do we get to select our own executioner? Anything else would be inhumane!
You can't be sure with DNS these days...
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Seriously...the notion that there are bad words to use is mindboggling.
Is that so, asshole?
I piss off bigots.
Give someone fire, and they can cook for a day. Set someone on fire, and they will cook for a lifetime.
There is no reason why we all can't have safe little nuclear power plants in our backyard, today.
Actually, there is. Inspired by your post, I called up Backyard Atomics Inc. and asked them if I could get a nuclear plant in my backyard today. They said no, it takes 3-5 days for shipping. So already I was disappointed. Then I decided to see if you were at least partly right, and asked if they would get plants to everyone in 3-5 days. They said no, that would require their full production capacity through at least next February.
So I appreciate the spirit of your post, but please get your facts right next time. It's either "There is no reason why some of us can't have safe little nuclear power plants in our backyard, next week" or "There is no reason we all can't have safe little nuclear power plants in our backyard, next year."
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