Fibonacci Tree Solar Panel

Solar tree on the basis of fibonacci ratios such as 1 3 2 5 3 8 and 5 13.

Fibonacci tree solar panel. But the most interesting results were in december when the sun was at its lowest point in the sky. At that point the tree design generated 50 percent more power without any adjustments to its declination angle. Solar trees offer more than just energy output from their panels. Aidan reports the results.

A solar tree is a different take on ground mounted panels. The fibonacci tree design performed better than the flat panel model. It is observed from the. 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.

Solar tree systems elevate panels high into the air and support them with a single free standing structure. The american museum of natural history rewarded him with a young naturalist award. So he came up with his little invention to generate the maximum amount of energy using the fractal principals of nature. Aidan explained my design is like a tree but instead of having leaves it has solar panels at the ends of the branches.

He determined the tree s fibonacci pattern allowed some solar panels to collect. The tree design made 20 more electricity and collected 2 1 2 more hours of sunlight during the day. The tree design made 20 more electricity and collected 2 1 2 more hours of sunlight during the. Like a real tree solar trees can offer shade making them ideal for integration into an open park or property.

And unlike a flat solar panel which must be mechanically readjusted to follow the sun s moving path a fibonacci sequence tree can still absorb light when the sun sits low in the sky. 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. Looking at the fibonacci series which describes spirals he also noticed that tree leaves adhered to the spiral sequence. Plus i observed that the fibonacci pattern helped the branches and leaves on a tree to avoid shading each other.

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. The fibonacci pattern allowed some solar panels to collect sunlight even if others were in shade. 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.