An Australian PhD student has found a sleazy way to make solar cells with nail polish , a pizza oven and an ink spurt pressman . 23 - year - old Nicole Kuepper ’s invention , named iJET , does n’t require the high-priced sportsmanlike rooms and high - temperature ovens of traditional solar control panel manufacture plants , thus dramatically depress the cost of solar and paving the route for introducing the technology to third - world rural area . Kuepper was award two Australian Museum Eureka Prizes , the country ’s top science honour , for iJET . Unfortunately , it seems likethe only pagethat would explain how iJET works is down right now , but Kuepper say it would probably take five yr to commercialise the engineering science and it ’ll help people in less formulate nations to “ read at night , keep informed about the world through radio and television and refrigerate life - saving vaccines ” without all those nasty CO2 emissions . [ The AustralianviaTreehugger ]
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