There are a lot of roads just sitting there in the sun, doing nothing with all that energy. Why not use them to collect it? All it takes is a massive re-engineering of what a solar panel can be.
It's not the house of the future. More like the house of the near-future. It will be smaller and more energy efficient (but don't worry, you can keep your walk-in closet).
Don't keep your solar user in the dark. Changers--a small solar panel you can use to charge your gadgets--wants to make your energy savings public and competitive.
You probably can't remember how many different ways you use energy during an average day, but billions of people can't take energy use for granted because they don't have access to any. Hugh Whalan is out to change that.
What if instead of restoring its reactors, the country figured out a way to do it all with renewables. It would take work and ingenuity, but it's totally possible.
We already have private sector businesses with solutions that are scaling rapidly. The scary thing is that governments do not know who they are, and therefore have no good way to coordinate with them.