This led him to propose arranging solar panels like oak trees leaves a manner which would be 20 to 50 percent more efficient energy wise.
Fibonacci numbers solar panels.
Aidan replicated the fibonacci sequence in trees to invent a new way of harnessing solar energy.
On a bleak winter hiking.
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.
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.
The american museum of natural history rewarded him with a young naturalist award.
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.
So to jump to the thought that fibonacci numbers explain why trees are built the way they are and further conclude that solar panels ought to be arranged that way well it s an interesting.