Google Science Fair 2012 - How can i bring stable power to remote villages?

I’m Harine. I’m a 16 yr old girl who was born curious. I love science because it gives answers to most of my questions. I grew up in a small town in southern India where poor quality voltages were a part and parcel of life. My grandparents, who have been a huge influence on me, live on a small farm in Alakudi. Whenever I visited them, I saw them rising at odd hours to water their fields because that was the only time the power was guaranteed. That fueled in me a desire to see if I could find a way to provide stable power to remote villages in India and the developing world. I have always been curious about how things around me work and why they work in a particular way . Why do rainbows appear only when it rains? When I’m in the car, why do things closer to me move faster than the things farther away? Never ceasing to be a questioner allows me to do what matters most to me—to immerse myself in all I can ever learn and to always give my best. I think science is beautiful when it makes connections between seemingly unrelated things, like a falling apple and the rising moon... two events that on the surface have little in common but both a result of gravity. My idea to solve the voltage problem was to create and build a regulator that would ensure that villages like my grandparent’s don’t suffer from daily power cuts. My work is not finished. It needs further development as there is so much more to do but I feel I’ve put a tiny bit of the jigsaw in place. I am convinced that the solutions to a more stable and sustainable future are simple and within our grasp. What’s missing is not the intelligence but the intent...the desire to change things.