Number 7

One of the most important resources we need today is electricity to carry out comfortably our day-to-day activities. While many nations in the world are abundantly enjoying this resource, more than 1.2 billion people do not have access to electricity. Most of these people are from developing nations typically from Africa and India. They happen to be poor and living in remote villages and mountainous terrains. Several agencies like the World Bank, UNDP, IEA and some developed countries are already taking steps to alleviate this energy poverty with the aim to achieve universal access to electrical power by the year 2030. These efforts are being implemented through well-known methods of electrical power production—both renewable as well as other types, one of which is harvesting the solar energy. As we know, sunlight is not available continuously, 24 hours per day. But what if we could make it so? Since one half the earth’s hemisphere does have sunlight, while the other half experiences night time, what if donor countries having the sunshine store the solar energy so it could be used during the night in receiver countries augmented by other types of electrical