Comments on: Engineer Uses Solar Energy, Wax, and Human Sweat to Fight Malaria http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sat, 26 May 2012 00:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sweating Cure http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/#comment-5812 Sweating Cure Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:35:34 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2047#comment-5812 Hi! I really love to read your blog. I am visiting your blog whenever I have some time left Hi! I really love to read your blog. I am visiting your blog whenever I have some time left

]]> By: Sweating Cure http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/#comment-22165 Sweating Cure Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:35:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2047#comment-22165 Hi! I really love to read your blog. I am visiting your blog whenever I have some time left Hi! I really love to read your blog. I am visiting your blog whenever I have some time left

]]> By: Uril Greene http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/#comment-5811 Uril Greene Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:17:39 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2047#comment-5811 nice idea, but not very user friendly or sustainable. Try the mosquito maze and compare the results. nice idea, but not very user friendly or sustainable. Try the mosquito maze and compare the results.

]]> By: Uril Greene http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/#comment-22164 Uril Greene Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:17:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2047#comment-22164 nice idea, but not very user friendly or sustainable. Try the mosquito maze and compare the results. nice idea, but not very user friendly or sustainable. Try the mosquito maze and compare the results.

]]> By: Cam http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/#comment-5810 Cam Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:23:36 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2047#comment-5810 Don't get me wrong, this is a great design for a mosqito trap, but in terms of an effective way to reduce the incidence of malaria I don't see the benefit. If you put this trap in the same room as 5 sleeping humans, this appears to mosquitos to be the 6th human, thus reducing the chance of the each person being targeted by a mosquito by 3%. At $10 a pop, I think the nets are a better choice. Also, I was led to believe that mosquitos target animals based on their CO2 exhalation plume which is why many other mosquito traps burn propane or natural gas to attract the insects. If temperature and smell are the main attraction, why don't mosquitos attack trees and rocks that sit in the sun and animals have rubbed up against? On the upside, you'll definately make a few sales in the Canadian Cottage Country market!!! Just make sure the holes are big enough for those suckers to get in... Don’t get me wrong, this is a great design for a mosqito trap, but in terms of an effective way to reduce the incidence of malaria I don’t see the benefit. If you put this trap in the same room as 5 sleeping humans, this appears to mosquitos to be the 6th human, thus reducing the chance of the each person being targeted by a mosquito by 3%. At $10 a pop, I think the nets are a better choice.

Also, I was led to believe that mosquitos target animals based on their CO2 exhalation plume which is why many other mosquito traps burn propane or natural gas to attract the insects.

If temperature and smell are the main attraction, why don’t mosquitos attack trees and rocks that sit in the sun and animals have rubbed up against?

On the upside, you’ll definately make a few sales in the Canadian Cottage Country market!!! Just make sure the holes are big enough for those suckers to get in…

]]> By: Cam http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/#comment-22163 Cam Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:23:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2047#comment-22163 Don't get me wrong, this is a great design for a mosqito trap, but in terms of an effective way to reduce the incidence of malaria I don't see the benefit. If you put this trap in the same room as 5 sleeping humans, this appears to mosquitos to be the 6th human, thus reducing the chance of the each person being targeted by a mosquito by 3%. At $10 a pop, I think the nets are a better choice. Also, I was led to believe that mosquitos target animals based on their CO2 exhalation plume which is why many other mosquito traps burn propane or natural gas to attract the insects. If temperature and smell are the main attraction, why don't mosquitos attack trees and rocks that sit in the sun and animals have rubbed up against? On the upside, you'll definately make a few sales in the Canadian Cottage Country market!!! Just make sure the holes are big enough for those suckers to get in... Don’t get me wrong, this is a great design for a mosqito trap, but in terms of an effective way to reduce the incidence of malaria I don’t see the benefit. If you put this trap in the same room as 5 sleeping humans, this appears to mosquitos to be the 6th human, thus reducing the chance of the each person being targeted by a mosquito by 3%. At $10 a pop, I think the nets are a better choice.

Also, I was led to believe that mosquitos target animals based on their CO2 exhalation plume which is why many other mosquito traps burn propane or natural gas to attract the insects.

If temperature and smell are the main attraction, why don’t mosquitos attack trees and rocks that sit in the sun and animals have rubbed up against?

On the upside, you’ll definately make a few sales in the Canadian Cottage Country market!!! Just make sure the holes are big enough for those suckers to get in…

]]> By: Global Patriot http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/#comment-5809 Global Patriot Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:08:34 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2047#comment-5809 An excellent bit of ingenuity with regards to fighting a serious problem with a minimum about of technology. Hopefully this will inspire many more such innovations. Combined with nets, we should see a dramatic decrease in malaria. An excellent bit of ingenuity with regards to fighting a serious problem with a minimum about of technology. Hopefully this will inspire many more such innovations. Combined with nets, we should see a dramatic decrease in malaria.

]]> By: Global Patriot http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/#comment-22162 Global Patriot Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:08:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2047#comment-22162 An excellent bit of ingenuity with regards to fighting a serious problem with a minimum about of technology. Hopefully this will inspire many more such innovations. Combined with nets, we should see a dramatic decrease in malaria. An excellent bit of ingenuity with regards to fighting a serious problem with a minimum about of technology. Hopefully this will inspire many more such innovations. Combined with nets, we should see a dramatic decrease in malaria.

]]> By: quixote http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/#comment-5808 quixote Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:51:52 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2047#comment-5808 Sure, you'd still need mosquito nets, but if this simple thing works, it'll kill mosquitoes attracted to humans each and every night. Enough years of that, and the surviving mosquitoes will prefer other food items. You'll always still need mosquito nets, but the chances of getting malaria will drop way down. This is a brilliant idea. People get paid hundreds of thousands in research funds and don't come up with anything this elegant and potentially effective. Sure, you’d still need mosquito nets, but if this simple thing works, it’ll kill mosquitoes attracted to humans each and every night. Enough years of that, and the surviving mosquitoes will prefer other food items. You’ll always still need mosquito nets, but the chances of getting malaria will drop way down.

This is a brilliant idea. People get paid hundreds of thousands in research funds and don’t come up with anything this elegant and potentially effective.

]]> By: quixote http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/#comment-22161 quixote Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:51:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2047#comment-22161 Sure, you'd still need mosquito nets, but if this simple thing works, it'll kill mosquitoes attracted to humans each and every night. Enough years of that, and the surviving mosquitoes will prefer other food items. You'll always still need mosquito nets, but the chances of getting malaria will drop way down. This is a brilliant idea. People get paid hundreds of thousands in research funds and don't come up with anything this elegant and potentially effective. Sure, you’d still need mosquito nets, but if this simple thing works, it’ll kill mosquitoes attracted to humans each and every night. Enough years of that, and the surviving mosquitoes will prefer other food items. You’ll always still need mosquito nets, but the chances of getting malaria will drop way down.

This is a brilliant idea. People get paid hundreds of thousands in research funds and don’t come up with anything this elegant and potentially effective.

]]> By: Tom Kruer http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/#comment-5807 Tom Kruer Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:29:02 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2047#comment-5807 Mike: Thanks for the compliments! Cannot argue that the research has shown that mosquito nets are indeed effective, especially if treated with pesticides. However, the InnoCentive challenge was to come up with a solar-powered device that could actually eradicate Malaria vector mosquitoes, not just keep them from host feeding. Tom Kruer Mike:

Thanks for the compliments!

Cannot argue that the research has shown that mosquito nets are indeed effective, especially if treated with pesticides. However, the InnoCentive challenge was to come up with a solar-powered device that could actually eradicate Malaria vector mosquitoes, not just keep them from host feeding.

Tom Kruer

]]> By: Tom Kruer http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/#comment-22160 Tom Kruer Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:29:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2047#comment-22160 Mike: Thanks for the compliments! Cannot argue that the research has shown that mosquito nets are indeed effective, especially if treated with pesticides. However, the InnoCentive challenge was to come up with a solar-powered device that could actually eradicate Malaria vector mosquitoes, not just keep them from host feeding. Tom Kruer Mike:

Thanks for the compliments!

Cannot argue that the research has shown that mosquito nets are indeed effective, especially if treated with pesticides. However, the InnoCentive challenge was to come up with a solar-powered device that could actually eradicate Malaria vector mosquitoes, not just keep them from host feeding.

Tom Kruer

]]> By: Mike http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/#comment-5806 Mike Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:52:02 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2047#comment-5806 That is $40,000 well earned. The key to beating widespread problems is a cheap solution using widely available resources. That said, though, the 'wax hat' won't beat the price and effectivness of mosquito nets. <a href='http://hiddenjoule.com' rel="nofollow">Mike</a> That is $40,000 well earned. The key to beating widespread problems is a cheap solution using widely available resources.

That said, though, the ‘wax hat’ won’t beat the price and effectivness of mosquito nets.

Mike

]]> By: Mike http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/31/engineer-uses-solar-energy-wax-and-human-sweat-to-fight-malaria/#comment-22159 Mike Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:52:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2047#comment-22159 That is $40,000 well earned. The key to beating widespread problems is a cheap solution using widely available resources. That said, though, the 'wax hat' won't beat the price and effectivness of mosquito nets. <a href='http://hiddenjoule.com' rel="nofollow">Mike</a> That is $40,000 well earned. The key to beating widespread problems is a cheap solution using widely available resources.

That said, though, the ‘wax hat’ won’t beat the price and effectivness of mosquito nets.

Mike

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