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If this image is correct, using just solar power, it doesn’t look like it would take much o power the earth…food for thought…potentially.

Hey Kids,

First off, Happy Belated New Year. I know we’ve been a bit under the radar during the colder months but we’re getting ready to gear up again for the 2010 riding season. On that note, DOB-C is looking for bloggers. We’re not trying to compete with the Huffington Post or anything but right now there is only one of us blogging and with a day job it can be a bit over-whelming to update as often as we’d like.

You don’t have to commit to multiple entries per week. In fact, the more people who are interested the less often you’ll have to update. We’re just looking for a few people who can do a couple of entries a month about anything bike-related, queer, or environmentally friendly.

We’re also just looking for anything bike-related. If you’ve got video or pictures or events that are happening around nyc and you’re cool with us putting it up on the site please feel free to contact us at dykesonbikecycles@gmail.com.

And, as always, please feel free to tell your friends about the group. We’re always looking for more members.

If you haven’t already friend our official dob-c group on facebook.

To start off our New Year. Here’s a video of Helen Mirren test driving Chevy’s Fuel cell car. Its a little sales-ish with the music but it’s Helen Mirren

Also if you’ve got tips on how to ride in cold weather please leave comments below. We’d love to hear about it.

Happy riding!

Milan Karki, a Nepalese teenager, has invented a solar panel that uses hair instead of silicone to convert the rays of the sun into power.

Karki wanted to help provide energy for his village but now can set his sights on a bigger market.  The Melanin in hair, it turns out, is light sensitive and a semi-conductor.  Karki and four other classmates developed the cells as an experiment and with its success have already sent test cells out to other districts.

If mass-produced it could potentially cut the cost of solar panels in half and because the hair would be easy to replace consumers would have more maintenance control.

Karki says he was inspired after reading Stephen Hawking’s book where he describes using hair to create static electricity.

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