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Australian Scientists close to commercializing printable Solar Panels.

team of solar power scientists in Australia known as the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium are closing in on finally commercialising a cheap and quick way of printing solar panels onto plastic. The team is made up of experts from the CSIRO, the University of Melbourne and Monash University, and they have all been working on the project together for seven years.

[Image Courtesy of CSIRO]

CSIRO’s senior research scientist Dr Fiona Scholes said the technology was ready for the commercialisation stage and could be used to power “laptops to rooftops“. As the solar panels are printed onto plastic it means they have a broad range of uses; thin cases for your electronics will not only protect them but could also power them.

“iPad covers, laptop bags, skins of iPhone – not just for casing electronics but to collect some energy as well and power those electronics,” Dr Scholes said.

They can also be printed semi-transparent which means they can be applied to windows, perfect for giant skyscrapers. “It can be made to be semitransparent – we can use it for a tinted window scenario.”

[Image Courtesy of CSIRO]

The team modified a normal commercial printer so that it could print what they call ‘solar ink’ which is then printed onto thin sheets of plastic. The team originally produced a coin sized solar panel before rapidly upscaling the technology to an A3 sheet.

“It’s very cheap. The way in which it looks and works is quite different to conventional silicon rooftop solar,” she said. “We print them onto plastic in more or less the same way we print our plastic banknotes.”

The CSIRO has had the solar cells on its Clayton roof for the past 18 months, with decent results. The printed cells are 10 times less efficient than standard solar panels, which are made of silicon, but scientists hope to improve that. The technology is however said to be a lot cheaper than silicone photovoltaics.

“It would be wonderful if we could achieve a similar power delivery at significantly reduced cost. Silicon is falling in price, but think about how cheap plastic is. The ink is a negligible cost, so the raw materials are very cost effective.”

Another huge benefit is the ease of transport, meaning that the tech could reach difficult and less fortunate areas of the world pretty easily. According to ABC they have already received a lot of interest from companies interested in commercialising the product.

“We can’t manufacture them here, but we are at the point where they can be taken up by a manufacturer,” she told Guardian Australia.

Have you See the World's Biggest Swimming Pool? Here it is..

Welcome to the San Alfonso del Mar, a private resort in Algarrobo, Chile that is home to the world’s largest swimming pool, holding the Guinness World Record for largest swimming pool by area. It stretches just over a kilometre, 13m more to be precise, and covers 20 acres with a maximum depth of 35.1 m.

It contains 250 million litres of seawater supplied from the pacific ocean which is pumped by a computer-controlled suction and filtration system and treated before entering the pool.

The pool was developed by Crystal Lagoon’s owner Fernando Fischmann and was opened back in December 2006.  Estimates suggest that the pool cost somewhere between US$1.5 billion to US$2 billion total, with annual maintenance racking up a bill of almost US$4 million.

It dwarfs the world’s second biggest pool, the Orthlieb – nicknamed the Big Splash – in Morocco, which is a mere 135m long and 90m wide.

Fischmann said advanced engineering meant his company could build “an impressive artificial paradise” even in inhospitable areas.

“As long as we have access to unlimited seawater, we can make it work, and it causes no damage to the ocean.”

The sun warms up the water to 26 degrees celcius, 9 more than the adjoining sea.

Guests can lounge on inflatable beds or partake in watersports such as kayaking, jet-skiing, water-skiing and yachting. If none of that tickles your fancy then how about hanging out with your friends on a giant inflatable lilly pad, complete with trampoline and slide.

The water is crystal clear and you can nearly see the bottom even at the 35m deep-end.

The view at night is also something quite spectacular.

Youngest CEOs in the World

Harli Jordean: The Marble King

Eight-year-old entrepreneur Harli Jordean started out as just another kid with a fascination with marbles. Unlike most youngsters, though, he turned his passion into a lucrative business.

He now has his own website on which he sells marbles and other gear to people around the world for up to 500 pounds apiece.

Cameron Johnson

When Cameron Johnson was nine years old, he started his own greeting card company. By the time he turned 12, he had already earned $1 million from selling his photoshopped greeting cards online. That's one successful pre-teen!

Johnson is now in his 20s, and could easily retire with the money his company has earned.

Lily, Chloe, and Sophie Warren: Sweet Bee Sisters

After deciding to go into business with her sisters at the ripe young age of 8, Lily Warren and her siblings Chloe and Sophie created their own line of lip balm and lotion bars made from the leftover beeswax from their beekeeper parents' hives.

Their company is called Sweet Bee Sisters, and you can visit their website to take a look at their various bee-themed products.

Sindhuja Rajaram: Seppan

When she was just 14 years old, Sindhuja Rajaram became the CEO of a computer animation company called Seppan. She reportedly became interested in animation after her father taught her how to draw.

Jesse Sheldon: Inland NW Baby

When Jesse Sheldon was 14 years old, he set out to raise awareness of the problems local low-income families had purchasing diapers for their children. To fill that need, he founded Inland NW Baby, a nonprofit organization that helps deliver diapers, clothing, and other necessities to outreach program

Perfectly match marvels Characters.

If you’re a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom, chances are you’ve probably heard the jokes about the perfection of Marvel’s casting. There are even incredibly scientific theories positing that Marvel creates some of their actors in a lab, waiting to use them at the right time as the perfect characters. Although the jury’s still out on that one, here’s some more totally scientific evidence that the MCU actors are their characters.

10. Chris Hemsworth as Thor

9. Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill

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8. Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton

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7. Anthony Hopkins as Odin

6. Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner

5. Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff

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4. Tom Hiddleston as Loki

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Amazing Methods Around to lose Fats.

Its Amazing to see what people around the world do to lose their weights. Its truly insane to see people that can go that limit to lose their weight.

Stomach Stapling

People will go to insane lengths to lose extra weight, including these really extreme methods. Some of them don't even work and many of them are downright dangerous!

Rather than put in the work and diet and exercise, many extremely overweight people will opt to get stomach surgery done. One of these methods is called stomach stapling which involves excising much of the stomach away and only leaving a tiny pouch that can hold about an ounce or so of food. It basically forces you to only eat small meals so you have to lose weight. The surgery is very dangerous however and many people get infections afterward.

Urine Injections

Some people are so tired of being fat that they were willing to be injected with urine: other people's urine. Pregnant women's urine to be specific. And it worked! One woman lost 43 pounds in 5 months via this method. The trick is that the urine contains a hormone, hCG, that makes your metabolism speed up.

Running From Paintballs

Are you overweight but have a hard time motivating yourself to exercise? A paintball company in the UK started a program for people just like you! You pay just 199 pounds for a 10 week class. For that money you run an assault course and employees will shoot paintballs at you to make sure you keep on moving! They ensure you will burn 800-1000 calories per workout.

Nasogastric Drip Tube

A doctor in Florida actually came up with this extreme weight loss method. It involves inserting a tube into your nose and down into your stomach. A liquid solution of fat, protein and water adding up to 800 calories a day drips constantly. It works by inducing ketoacidosis, a process which burns fat. You aren't allowed to eat anything else for the duration of the diet. The doctor who created the method claims that you can burn up to 20 pounds of fat in 10 days.

Imaginary Gastric Band

Why go to extreme weight loss methods when you can just trick your body into thinking you did? It worked for Marion Corns! Just look at her results! She paid a therapist to hypnotize her into believing that she had been given the gastric band surgery. After five sessions, she claimed her stomach felt like it was smaller and she was full after eating smaller amounts of food. She immediately began losing about 3 pounds a week.

Painful Tongue Patch

Do you compulsively overeat no matter what you do? Dr. Nikolas Chugay has come up with the weight loss method for you! He sews a polyethylene mesh patch onto his patients tongues so that it is painful to eat solid foods, forcing them to only be able to eat a liquid diet. Over 60 people have had the patch sewn onto their tongues and they have lost an average of 20 pounds each in the month he leaves it on.

Spend a Week at High Altitude

If you want to lose weight while eating all the food you want and not exercising, all you have to do is move to an extreme elevation. A study was done on 20 overweight men who spent a week at an altitude of 8,700 feet. They were told to eat whatever they wanted and not to exercise more than a leisurely stroll. They lost an average of 3 pounds that week and kept an average of 2 pounds off for a month after returning home to normal elevations. Unfortunately further studies showed that the benefits wear off after living at high altitudes for 6 months so simply moving to the mountains won't help long term, but a visit every once in a while might!

Prescription Drugs That Cost a Fortune. Amazing Cost

Acthar

Imagine having to spend the cost of a house every year on medication just to stay alive, and often your insurance doesn't even help with the cost. That is what many people are dealing with in the United States right now. Here are some of the most expensive prescription medications avaliable right now.

Acthar or ACTH is used to treat seizures in babies under 2 years old, among other things such as multiple sclerosis. The drug used to be available for just $50 a dose but recently that cost shot up to $28,000 for a tiny vial meaning it can cost up to $300,000 a year. And since it isn't approved by the FDA to treat infant seizures people usually can't get their health insurance to help pay for it.

Aldurazyme

Hurler Syndrome is a metabolic disorder that keeps your body from processing sugars the way it's supposed to. There is only one medication that helps the people who suffer from this dangerous disease from getting even sicker and it's called Aldurazyme. But it costs about $200,000 a year and even health insurance doesn't usually bring that cost down by much.

There’s something fishy about the Doumen Observation Tower.Amazing.

There is definitely something fishy about the design of the Doumen Observation Tower in Zhuhai, found in the Guangdong Province of China. The winning design of a competition in Shenzhen of RMJM has given the go ahead to build an observation tower that takes on the appearance of a fish out of water thanks to its 1,400 scales of aluminium.

The Doumen Observation Tower has been based on a fish leaping out of the water as well as the trailing water and it is supposed to symbolize prosperity along with the rapid transformation within the city.

China place more emphasis on symbolism in their architectural projects than the US. We have seen this in designs of architecture on such as the Phoenix Towers and the Guangzhou Circle Mansion. They draw upon Feng Shui along with the Chinese Phoenix.

The design of the Doumen Observation Tower is stunning, as is the material used on the building. It will stretch 88m into the sky and span out over 4, 563 square metres of floor space.

The interior of the building has been designed in three different sections; these are restaurants, cafes and a souvenir store located on the ground floor. The middle section features what has been termed a recreation platform and on top is an observation platform that is encased in glass, offering 360 degree views out over the landscape.

The aluminium scales make the fish look as though it shimmers in the sunlight and they do serve a purpose; they also provide protection from the sun along with the creation of patterns from the natural light within the confines of the building.

At the moment however, RMJM haven’t said when the building of the new tower will commence and when they expect it to be completed.

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