Plenty of us head into the woods to find inspiration.
Fibonacci numbers solar panels.
Aidan dwyer 13 went to the woods and had a eureka moment that could be a major breakthrough in solar panel design.
An anonymous reader tips news of 7th grader aidan dwyer who used phyllotaxis the way leaves are arranged on plant stems in nature as inspiration to arrange an array of solar panels in a way that generates 20 50 more energy than a uniform flat panel array aidan wrote i designed and built my own test model copying the fibonacci pattern of an oak tree.
This instructable is a part of a bigger experiment that was performed to comapare the qulitatiive and quantitative performance of an fibonacci arrangement of solar cells to a conventional planar arrangement i ll be explaining how to arrange solar.
On a bleak winter hiking.
The american museum of natural history rewarded him with a young naturalist award.
Looking at the fibonacci series which describes spirals he also noticed that tree leaves adhered to the spiral sequence.
Fibonacci pattern of solar cells.
The future of our planet lies in the hands of our children and when a 13 year old boy aidan dwyer uncovers the mystery of how trees get enough of sunlight in a crowded forest and applies it to solar energy you know that all is not lost.