{"id":9594,"date":"2011-08-20T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9594"},"modified":"2011-08-20T03:00:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T08:00:37","slug":"make-like-a-tree-and-leaf-less-energy-uncollected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9594","title":{"rendered":"Make Like a Tree and Leaf Less Energy Uncollected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnh.org\/nationalcenter\/youngnaturalistawards\/2011\/aidan.html\">Young Naturalist Award \u2014 Aiden: The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My investigation asked the question of whether there is a secret formula in tree design and whether the purpose of the spiral pattern is to collect sunlight better. After doing research, I put together test tools, experiments and design models to investigate how trees collect sunlight. At the end of my research project, I put the pieces of this natural puzzle together, and I discovered the answer. But the best part was that I discovered a new way to increase the efficiency of solar panels at collecting sunlight!<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nThe tree design takes up less room than flat-panel arrays and works in spots that don&#8217;t have a full southern view. It collects more sunlight in winter. Shade and bad weather like snow don&#8217;t hurt it because the panels are not flat. It even looks nicer because it looks like a tree. A design like this may work better in urban areas where space and direct sunlight can be hard to find.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update:  I missed that he was measuring the open-circuit voltage output, not current, for his arrays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Naturalist Award \u2014 Aiden: The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees My investigation asked the question of whether there is a secret formula in tree design and whether the purpose of the spiral pattern is to collect sunlight &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9594\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-experiments","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}