Saturday 3 September 2011

Solar collectors that emulate nature: Fibonacci solar panels

Arranging solar panels like branches of trees.


A 13 year old boy from New York State has developed an experiment which proves that solar panels arranged to emulate trees which grow according to the Fibonacci sequence are in fact more efficient than flat panel arrays. This bright youngster arrived at the culmination of his experiment by fist observing that the branches of trees radiated off from the main trunk or branches of the tree in a spiraling upward arrangement that matched the famous mathematical sequence recently bought back to the minds of the public in Dan Browns best selling novel: The Da Vinci Code. 

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