 Trade it and upgrade it now at Appalachian Wireless and receive up to $700 off when you trade your old eligible device in and upgrade to a new iPhone 14 Pro Max or Samsung S23 Ultra on an unlimited Appalachian Advantage plan because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. The University of Kentucky has been conducting research on how human hair can be used to repair bridges across the state. So we have been looking at natural fibers and we had one application in 1999 using hemp fibers to repair a bridge speeder. So human hair is another natural fiber basically and it is a very strong find. Human hair on the average can resist 30,000 pounds per square inch. So of course it attracted our attention but more importantly it's generally a product that is faced in garbage bags and dumped basically. Bridges are an important part of Kentucky's infrastructure and according to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association 7% of the state's bridges are classified as structurally deficient. Students at UK have found human hair and natural binders combined to make a material that could solve structural problems in bridges. So right now the students have been able to converge on a system that would work so and so we're basically nearing the completion of phase one of our study. Phase two involves spinning the human hair into yarn and the yarn into fabric and once we have it as a fabric really it is applicable to many situations during the construction forming process. Students at the University of Kentucky are the driving force behind the research. Within a few years they hope to test their research in the field and bring new life to bridges throughout Kentucky. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.