Fibonacci Tree Solar Panel

Aidan reports the results.

Fibonacci tree solar panel.

Looking at the fibonacci series which describes spirals he also noticed that tree leaves adhered to the spiral sequence. The american museum of natural history rewarded him with a young naturalist award. The tree design made 20 more electricity and collected 2 1 2 more hours of sunlight during the. The tree design made 20 more electricity and collected 2 1 2 more hours of sunlight during the day.

Young naturalist awards he determined the tree s fibonacci pattern allowed some solar panels to collect sunlight even if others were in shade and prevented branches on a tree from shading other. The fibonacci tree design performed better than the flat panel model. A solar tree is a different take on ground mounted panels. Aidan explained my design is like a tree but instead of having leaves it has solar panels at the ends of the branches.

Like a real tree solar trees can offer shade making them ideal for integration into an open park or property. The fractal nature of trees allows each leaf to get sunlight and he pondered on why we don t use the fibonacci sequence in the placement of solar panels for us to harness energy from the sun. My conclusions suggest that the fibonacci pattern in trees makes an evolutionary difference. Collecting the most sunlight is the difference between life and death wrote aidan who thinks humans can put treelike solar panel designs to use especially in urban spaces where sunlight is scarce.

Solar tree systems elevate panels high into the air and support them with a single free standing structure. In this work a solar tree based on 2 5 fibonacci ratio is designed and its energy output in a particular time duration is compared with a fixed solar panel of equal capacity facing equal amount of solar insolation. 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 fibonacci pattern allowed some solar panels to collect sunlight even if others were in shade.

So he came up with his little invention to generate the maximum amount of energy using the fractal principals of nature. Solar tree on the basis of fibonacci ratios such as 1 3 2 5 3 8 and 5 13. Plus i observed that the fibonacci pattern helped the branches and leaves on a tree to avoid shading each other. But the most interesting results were in december when the sun was at its lowest point in the sky.

Solar trees offer more than just energy output from their panels. At that point the tree design generated 50 percent more power without any adjustments to its declination angle. The fibonacci tree design performed better than the flat panel model.