13-Year-Old Designs Super-Efficient Solar Array Based on the Fibonacci Sequence

[Yavin4]

On a bleak winter hiking trip to the Catskill Mountains, the 7th-grader from New York noticed a pattern among tree branches, and determined (as naturalist Charles Bonnet did in 1754) that the pattern represented the Fibonacci sequence of numbers. Aidan wondered why, and figured it had something to do with photosynthesis.

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his tree design generated much more electricity — especially during the winter solstice, when the sun is at its lowest point in the sky. At that point, the tree design generated 50 percent more power, without any adjustments to its declination angle.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-08/13-year-old-designs-breakthrough-solar-array-based-fibonacci-sequence

Pretty interesting.

[Make7]

1. Already posted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1773460&mesg_id=1773460
 

[ProfessionalLeftist]

2. This is the type of thing the US should be researching & developing instead of

wasting more money in Iraq and Afghanistan - and on welfare for the rich & the oil & gas corprats. We COULD lead- bet we won't. Loser Nation.