Looking at the fibonacci series which describes spirals he also noticed that tree leaves adhered to the spiral sequence.
Fibonacci numbers solar panels.
Fibonacci pattern of solar cells.
On a bleak winter hiking.
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 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.
Aidan dwyer 13 went to the woods and had a eureka moment that could be a major breakthrough in solar panel design.
Aidan replicated the fibonacci sequence in trees to invent a new way of harnessing solar energy.
Plenty of us head into the woods to find inspiration.
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.