Fibonacci Numbers Solar Panels

Plenty of us head into the woods to find inspiration.

Fibonacci numbers solar panels.

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. Aidan replicated the fibonacci sequence in trees to invent a new way of harnessing solar energy.

Looking at the fibonacci series which describes spirals he also noticed that tree leaves adhered to the spiral sequence. 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. 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. The american museum of natural history rewarded him with a young naturalist award.