Solar power is a growing energy source that I think is widely underused.  Although it goes against certain aspects of capitalism, I think in a city that's main focus is the environment, the panels should be required.  There is also a very cool small company that produces solar panels as hexagonal blocks to put in as streets.  They are very energy efficient and would provide tons of energy, saving people lots of money.  It would be expensive but after time the balances would balance due to no electricity bill.  I think that fossil fuels have done their job to get us to where we are, but thanks to them we have discovered new sources of energy which I would definitely want to explore in my city.

Hi Jacon, I am Hugo Liao from China and I am very agree with you. I think solar power is a reasonable potential energy resource for man kind to use in the future. According to the carbon footprint survey, the transportations we regularly use are producing massive amount of carbon. I think that the only way to have a future of a lower carbon exhaustions is to develop solar power, use the power of the sun instead of the earth, and help the earth rest.

Hi Jacon,
My name is Meghan and I definitely agree that we need to start looking for other sources of energy that are cleaner and better for the environment. While solar panels are expensive, they can very much be worth it in the long run. From people in my community that own solar panels, I've heard that they end up absorbing so much energy that they end up selling it to energy companies and they get their money back that way. I also believe that if we as a population start to increasingly use more solar energy and panels, the cost will decrease due to supply and demand factors. From your post, I'm confused about the information that you said about putting in panels as streets. How would the energy be distributed to each building, not just houses, and would this option even be a possibility for busier streets who have much more traffic flow than most others? If we start small by just seeing if communities would be willing to commit each household having at least  one panel, then we'll be off to a good start and can move on to bigger products like streets in the future. Thank you so much for putting this into perspective.

I think this is all very true that solar power would be a more clean source of energy, and that it would be beneficial to the environment to use. However there are some factors that make using solar energy rather difficult. First of all solar panels are in fact expensive as you all said, and they require a lot of upkeep. They require constant cleaning, and they are easily broken. Then of course there is the obvious fact that is not always sunny, at night the solar panels will not do any good, nor when it is too shady, or raining. You cannot rely solely on solar power. Making it rather unreliable at times.