When you are trying to be the type of person who changes things, you have to have a certain way of thinking. With this way of thinking, you have to think things through. You need to take a problem and look at it from every different angle. Think of why people haven't come up with a solution or why potential solutions haven't worked. You have to be practical. Think big, but only within the limits of what is possible. You can't decide that you are going to invent time travel in order to save the world from self destruction. You need to work around the problem at hand and take your search for answers outside the norm.
Donald Sadoway is the kind of person who has that way of thinking that enables him to change things. He has the ability to take a problem and turn it upside down and shake if until the answers just fall out. He looked at the problem of renewable energy and how he could change the situation. The problem was that "...no battery today that can meet the high power, long lifetime and low cost demands of the power grid." and he set out to make the battery that could. He was successful. He, along with one of his students, built the first liquid battery. he found this answer by thinking outside the box, looking at how aluminum was smelted. It sparked the idea that a liquid battery could solve the problem. It was cheap, high power, and lasted long. He didn't have us "bomb our way out" or "conserve our way out" he invented the way out of the energy crisis by inventing "...to the pricepoint of the energy market." That is how he invented a solution that was successful.
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