If eighteen - year - old Milan Karki does n’t twist out to be the next Tesla or Edison , then I ’ll chop off my locks . This kid contrive a solar dialog box which uses human pilus as a director and could puzzle out an energy crisis .
As a teenager in a rural small town in Nepal , Milan Karki fuck just how desperately developing countries demand an low-cost , renewable energy author . But rather than whine about the accessibility of electricity or the cost of battery , he sit down and came up with a solution : Low - cost solar panels with human fuzz conductor .
Solar get-up-and-go is n’t anything young , but solar panels themselves can be pricy to produce due to using silicon . Karki solved the cost issue by using human hair rather since it turns out that Melanin , a color paint in haircloth , is a good director . Oh , and did we bring up that it ’s cheaper than silicon ?
Half a kg of hair can be buy for only 16p in Nepal and lasts a few month , whereas a gang of batteries would be 50p and last a few nights .
I do n’t do it why they ’re selling hair’s-breadth by the kilo , but this idea is absolutely brainy and I ca n’t wait to see if it turns into something widely used . [ Daily Mail ]
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