- Aug 22, 2008 10:25 PM EST - [num] Comments "I love working
with passionate people who want to help address climate change
and poverty by thinking and experimenting outside the square,"
says Nicole Kuepper, a PhD student and PV and renewable energy
lecturer. And indeed, outside the square Ms. Kuepper did think,
for she happen to have thought of a solar cell concept that
uses, of all things, a pizza oven. Even with the impending fall
of prices for PV cells, many people from developing countries
still wouldn't be able to afford solar installations. Thing is,
whereas many of those who get solar installations aim to lower
their carbon footprint, solar energy might be the only way some
people from the remote areas of the developing world could enjoy
electricity. Called the iJET cell concept, the process would use
low-cost materials and would have low energy requirements. There
are no details about the solar cell available for now; all we
know is that the process would enlist the use of an inkjet
printer aside fro