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Solar Cells — Made In a Pizza Oven

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

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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  1. how many by RMH101 · · Score: 5, Funny

    How many solar cells do you need to power a pizza oven, anyway?

  2. Yeah but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    MacGyver would have done it with just the nail polish.

  3. energy crisis finally solved! by alisoul · · Score: 5, Funny

    now we just need to figure out how to get every poor country an abundance of pizza ovens, nail polish and inkjet printers

    1. Re:energy crisis finally solved! by Cormacus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well the inkjet printers should be easy . . . just hit up the dumpsters on college campuses right as the semester is ending . . .

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      Mon chien, il n'a pas du nez. Comment scent-il? TrÃs mauvais!
  4. Re:"Crafty chick" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:crafty chick? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nah. In that case she would have been a crafty sheila.

  6. Re:Chick? by Emb3rz · · Score: 5, Funny

    And yes, I'm male.

    *checks URL* Yep, still Slashdot.

    Mod parent redundant! :P

  7. Re:Competitive with Nanosolar? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    My blog
  8. Re:Chick? by kungfugleek · · Score: 5, Funny
    Why, that's a terrible thing. I don't know how many time I've told those boys, never call broads chicks.

    Sorry, Al.

  9. Re:crafty chick? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think Outback Steakhouse would lie to me about this.

  10. Re:Competitive with Nanosolar? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Give someone fire, and they can cook for a day. Set someone on fire, and they will cook for a lifetime.