Question: thankyou for answering all my questions on the live chat but I have 1 more!!!!! What is the futer to solar pannles (I have them on the roof of my house). THanks again bye Beth!!!

Beth Macaulay answered on 3 Mar 2021:

Hey Elsie! Thank YOU for asking so many good questions.

Solar panels are really cool – I studied abroad in Germany for six months, and almost every single house had solar panels on the roof. I wish more houses in Ireland were like yours. They are such a good method of renewable energy.

Solar panels are not really my area of expertise, though – I know more about bones than renewable energy, but it is such a cool and important area of engineering. As for the future of solar panels, I imagine that they could become much, much more popular. Places that get a lot of sun, like Spain or California, could probably use solar panels in every building and become the main source of energy. Cloudier places like Ireland and England might have to rely more on different methods – like wind energy.

Maybe some other engineers here could give you some ideas for the future of solar energy. Maybe you and your friends could think of ways to use solar energy to replace the non-renewable energy we use now!