The phrase "an extreme solution" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when describing a solution or course of action that is considered drastic or unconventional. Example: "After months of negotiations, the government turned to an extreme solution to address the rising crime rates in the city: implementing a curfew for all residents under the age of 18."
If this sounds like an extreme solution to a benign problem, it's only just the beginning.
He has an extreme solution: if Facebook can't be regulated effectively, it should be nationalised to ensure it acts in the interest of the public.
And so Vaughn, feeling trapped, arrived at an extreme solution -- extreme, yet possibly the only one in which his reputation would not merely be salvaged but infinitely bolstered.
A heart transplant is an extreme solution to an extreme situation, but conditions that are not life threatening also prompt extreme solutions.
He had a mild form of the disease that was controlled by drugs and diet and was not life-threatening, but nevertheless volunteered for gene therapy - then, and now, an extreme solution - at the University of Pennsylvania's gene therapy unit.
Is it an extreme solution?
In a recent report, the Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland extravagantly praised a similar initiative at Peterhead prison, near Aberdeen.Not content with this success, Jack Straw, the home secretary, is considering introducing an "indeterminate sentence" which would keep paedophiles in prison until they are no longer thought to be a threat an extreme solution, but perhaps a necessary one.
But over the last few years, hundreds of thousands of men have opted for a more extreme solution: hair transplantation.
Narayan's own research focuses on addressing that problem with a more extreme solution – designing chips with silicon neurons and synapses that mimic those of real brains (see "Thinking in Silicon").
We see some notebooks with paper pockets for notes, a more extreme solution might be to attach fold-out flaps to the last page or an actual envelope type folder to the back of the notebook to tuck notes into the back.
