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Author:  davrosG5 [ Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:06 am ]
Post subject:  13 Year Olds Solar Panel Boost
Linky

A 13 year old has come up with a new way to lay out solar panels that provides a 50% boost compared with conventional flat arrays.
I do wonder however, how many 13 year olds have even heard of the Fibonacci sequence.

Still, well done young man.
Author:  Fogmeister [ Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:19 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 13 Year Olds Solar Panel Boost
Quote:
he put two and two together

They missed a trick there.

He put one and one together and then put two and one together ...
Author:  Linux_User [ Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:21 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 13 Year Olds Solar Panel Boost
Two and two makes twenty-two.

I am a product of the British education system. :ugeek:
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:49 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 13 Year Olds Solar Panel Boost
From reading the comments, it seems that his methodology was flawed.
Author:  JJW009 [ Fri Aug 26, 2011 5:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 13 Year Olds Solar Panel Boost
I posted this a while ago.

on Sat Aug 20, JJW009 wrote:
here's something random:

http://gizmodo.com/5832557/genius-13+ye ... eakthrough

I thought that was kinda cool. I remember being excited by discovering mathematics in nature when I was about the same age, and I was even ranting about sunflowers just a few weeks ago. Maths is so cool.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:09 am ]
Post subject:  13 Year Olds Solar Panel Boost
davrosG5 wrote:
Linky

A 13 year old has come up with a new way to lay out solar panels that provides a 50% boost compared with conventional flat arrays.
I do wonder however, how many 13 year olds have even heard of the Fibonacci sequence.

Still, well done young man.

I don't think it is as much as 50%, but it does gain more energy over a longer period. Plane panels will not peak till the sun was directly overhead. The leaf method effectively averages out the energy gained over all the leaves so might not have the same peak, but will average higher for longer. So power gained is higher overall. While it is a clever solution I do not think it should be patentable.


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