Google's 10^100 contest.

Think about it. Airplanes, commerical and not. They all use large quantities of fuel to travel back and forth across the United States, and around the world. How come we haven't seen any planes with solar panels? Would it be pheaseable to obtain a charge moving as fast as they do? I don't see any reason why they wouldn't. Hell, they could start off small and use the solar panels to power the inside lights, markers, equipment up front, etc. Basic electrical components, and eventually conver the turbines to where they can spool off of electricity and regenerate electricity with a backward self-charging capacitor (like an alternator). This theory would make it so that it would only need fuel to start the engine, and after the plane is in flight it can convert to electricity powered by the sun. Brilliant IMO.

All vehicles should be moving towards energy independence.