{"id":31321,"date":"2016-10-22T13:47:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/this-brilliant-13-year-old-figured-out-how-to-make-clean-energy-using-a-device-that-costs-5"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:07:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:07:52","slug":"this-brilliant-13-year-old-figured-out-how-to-make-clean-energy-using-a-device-that-costs-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/this-brilliant-13-year-old-figured-out-how-to-make-clean-energy-using-a-device-that-costs-5","title":{"rendered":"This brilliant 13-year-old figured out how to make clean energy using a device that costs $5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-brilliant-13-year-old-figured-out-how-to-make-clean-energy-using-a-device-that-costs-5.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maanasa Mendu thinks she\u2019s cracked the code on how to make wind and solar energy affordable.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Mendu, a 13-year-old from Ohio, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngscientistchallenge.com\/contests\/entry\/22923\">won the grand prize in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge<\/a> for her work in creating a cost-effective \u201csolar leaves\u201d design to create energy. In addition to winning the title of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Top Young Scientist,\u201d she gets $25,000 for her achievement.<\/p>\n<p>The leaves, designed to help developing areas in need of cheaper power sources, cost roughly $5 to make.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/3m-young-scientist-winner-cheap-solar-power-2016-10\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/3m-young-scientist-winner-che...016&#45;10<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maanasa Mendu thinks she\u2019s cracked the code on how to make wind and solar energy affordable. On Tuesday, Mendu, a 13-year-old from Ohio, won the grand prize in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her work in creating a cost-effective \u201csolar leaves\u201d design to create energy. In addition to winning the title of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65943,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31321\/revisions\/65943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}