Here's the evidence of fraud: 1. "I'm trying to produce commercially and distribute to the districts. We've already sent a couple out to the districts to test for feasibility." means they have built and distributed prototypes for evaluation. 2. "Two teens in Nepal, Milan Karki and Harihar Adhikari, have developed a low cost solar panel from human hair. Silicon dioxide, cupreous oxide, copper wire, glass, plywood and black hair is all they required to prepare the solar panel." a cupreous oxide (US spelling cuprous oxide) cell produces 2.35 mW per square meter and they would need a panel 120m x 120m to produce 9V at 18W. 3. Their panel is just about the right size to contain a commercially available 9V 18W unit which can be purchased from a company like Maplin in the UK. 4. If they have distributed panels that supposedly produce 9V at 18W and the panels are the size shown in the photogrqaphs, this could only happen if they have concealed conventional silicon solar panels inside the prototypes. Either that or they haven't distributed any prototypes. 5. Based on the information published so far, including direct quotes from the inventors, these students do not understand the science behind their own invention.

I meant 1.25 mW per square meter.

Wrong, misguided or they talked themselves in to a tight spot and it got a lot tighter because of the media. Hard to tell which without more information.

Father (bursting in):Son what are you doing shaving your balls with my electric razor ...?!?! Son: Err ... Father: Well. Son: It's for school, err, ... I'm making a hair powered solar cell. Father: Really? Wow ... I always told your mother you were a great kid.