Aidan replicated the fibonacci sequence in trees to invent a new way of harnessing solar energy.
Fibonacci numbers solar panels.
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.
On a bleak winter hiking.
Fibonacci pattern of solar cells.
Plenty of us head into the woods to find inspiration.
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.
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.