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The wide-scaled solution is to make large solar panels that act as power plants. Instead of having each household have solar panels just for their own houses, countries could introduce wide-scaled panels that could act as power plants. Wide-scaled panels could obtain energy from the sun and transfer this energy to househouses much like how a regular-day power plant works. This system would be much more friendly to the enviornment and also would not consume the world's fossil fuels.

Solar energy can be stored and used on days even when there is no sunlight. With the wide-scaled solution one of the biggest problems facing countries would be countries that have cold climates with poor sunlight. These countries would have a difficult time storing energy through sunlight when they do not recieve such sunlight to begin with. Our solution is to put solar panels in equitorial countires (countries near the equitor) and store the solar energy that is recieved and have that energy transfered to the other countries. These countries would still be running on solar energy but they would be recieving their solar energy from other countries.

University of Buffalo scientist Esther Takeuchi has a similar perspective on solving this problem. She has more than 140 U.S. patents, all in energy storage. “One of the key challenges in moving from our fossil-fuel based system to greener, renewable forms of energy is that whether you’re talking about solar or wind power, these forms of energy are intermittent,” says Takeuchi. Her focus is on developing a distributed grid where renewable power is generated closer to where it’s needed, rather than in a central place and transmitted long distances, the way the current grid operates. “To generate energy at a usable, consistent level, we will need to couple a dependable, energy-storage system with renewable power sources,” she says. Takeuchi’s work on biomedical devices has provided her with an unusual appreciation for the properties of batteries that have exceptional longevity. The typical lifetime of a battery in an implantable device is 5-10 years and Takeuchi is one of those leading the push to increase that for both biomedical and utility applications. “Whether you’re talking about the power grid, electrical vehicles or biomedical devices the quest is for low cost, longer life and rechargeability,” she says.





Here is map to show where solar panels would be a productive place to be for the United States.

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