13 year old looks at trees, makes solar power breakthrough in science
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Nature is amazing.
Though i have no idea how, or why that is more efficient than solar panels aimed directly at the sun.
How interesting, that the trees have had this shit sorted out for such a long time before us. I think that it is time that we take nature serious as a way to design things for science.. After all nature has all this shit thought out on how to produce the most efficient designs any way.
i dunno if this has been mentioned already but one must consider whether the increased energy output is worth the reduce space efficiency. it's much easier to line a roof with a bunch of flat panels than with tree-like structures
[QUOTE=catbarf;31842103]Why aren't motors and computer controls practical in those scenarios? It generates its own power, a simple computer can track the sun and it can use a bit of power to activate a motor to turn. It's still more efficient than a sprawling tree of solar panels.[/QUOTE]well a typical portable array only outputs about 50W. as for in home systems it's just too expensive
let's make solar grass, with solar trees, and solar squirrels
The squirrels would power themselves and just be for show and entertainment purposes, but I don't think that's a good reason to not do it
[QUOTE=Sanius;31825673]It took a 13 year-old kid to figure this out?[/QUOTE]
I don't see you making any spectacular scientific breakthroughs here...
This was [url=bit.ly/oIPRnX]debunked[/url], apparently.
[QUOTE=WaLLy3K;31850835]This was [url=bit.ly/oIPRnX]debunked[/url], apparently.[/QUOTE]
Oh, well then. Might be that this failed experiment leads up into an actual new and improved solar panel, you never know.
Also the kid looks like a douche in his picture in the write-up.
[QUOTE=WaLLy3K;31850835]This was [url=bit.ly/oIPRnX]debunked[/url], apparently.[/QUOTE]
Did I not say this was bullshit on page 2?
FP needs to listen to its resident engies, saves time. Interesting to see somebody actually went through the effort of explaining why its nonsense in detail, though, that looks like it was painfully boring to write.
[QUOTE=WaLLy3K;31850835]This was [url=bit.ly/oIPRnX]debunked[/url], apparently.[/QUOTE]
Fuck you PopSci, I trusted you.
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