Nepal Human Hair Solar Panel
...One of the reasons solar energy has become available in underdeveloped countries do not, the costs associated with the purchase of solar panels. Two youths in Nepal, Milan and K?rki Harihar Adhikari, cheap solar cells developed from human hair. Silicon dioxide, copper oxide, copper wire, glass, plywood and black hair, prepare everything necessary for a solar panel. 17-year-old while his 12th 8 volts, 18 watts of electricity made from the assembly 1 / 2 kg hair.
"At first I wanted electricity for my home, my village. Now I think the whole world," said Milan, visited the school in the capital Kathmandu. Dryer replace silicon is expensive part is usually used in solar cells and can mean, at low cost for those who have no access to power are produced, he said.
In Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, lacking in many rural areas have access to electricity, even in areas connected with cables, users face a shortage of up to 16 hours a day. Milan and four classmates at the beginning of the solar panel and experiment, but young people are convinced that it has broad applicability and profitability.
Half-Kilo A hair can be acquired only 16p in Nepal and lasts several months, while the battery pack would cost 50 pence and lasts for several days. You can easily replace the hair alone, "says Milan, the importance of its solar cells a little service.
Three years after the first came up with the idea of Milan says that the idea is more important than ever as the fundamental need for renewable energy in the face of limited energy resources and global warming.
"Slowly, natural resources are degrading so it is necessary to think about the future," he said.
"I'm trying to produce commercially and distribute to the districts. We've already sent a couple out to the districts to test for feasibility," he said.
Solar panel, the 9 W (generates 18 W), energy is about 23 pounds on the raw materials.But had made weight, says Milan could for less than half that price that would be the fourth understood sold prices already on the market. Melanin, the pigment that gives hair color, is sensitive to light and also acts as a kind of wire.
Solar panels can charge a mobile phone or battery is capable of light in the evening. Milan began their path to power, when the boy lived in Khotang to create a remote district of Nepal absolutely nothing to do with electricity too. According to him, the villagers were skeptical of his invention in the first place.
Since the hair is much cheaper than silicon devices are less costly.Hair today: detailed picture shows a human hair as an alternative to the use of silicon "I realised that Melanin was one of the factors in conversion of energy," he said.
"They believe in superstitions, they don't believe in science. But now they believe," he said.
First I tried to use currents, hydropower on a small scale, but said that the experiment has become too expensive.
"I searched for new, other renewable, affordable sources. People in these places are living the life of the stone age even in the 21st century," he said.
Milan, whose hero is an inventor Thomas Eddison, describes himself as lucky because his family could afford it to get a proper education, while many other villagers forced to work from an early age. Most of his village are illiterate. First, he was inspired after reading the book, physicist Stephen Hawking What are the possibilities for creating static electricity from hair discussed. It's has shown the power to: digital multimeter voltage generated by innovative panel
Nepal Human Hair Solar Panel Hoax !
"My PhD is in Organic Materials for Photovoltaics... I am horrified that [news agencies] have published this article verbatim, without even questioning the basic science behind this 'invention'... Melanin is really bad at charge separation, a basic requirement for solar cells." .... Caesar_Dia
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