Sometimes wonders can happen if we only spent some time looking around and wondering. But it's another question who has the time 'to stand and stare'?
Check out what this 7th grade boy did as he stared at trees and wondered.
Aidan Dwyer puxzzled about the way trees branch out and the angles at which they did so. He found a pattern in the Fibanocci series 1,2,3,5, 8, 13,... and accordingly designed his tree with solar panels set at those angles. He then compared the energy output from his solar tree to a flat panel row and found the tree gave almsot 20-50 percent more!
He also saw the maximum output was in December with the sun at its lowest point in the sky. He got 50 percent more energy.
Sure is going to have some manufacturers build trees!
Meanwhile, more solar news. Berthed at Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong is a ship with a difference. The Tûranor PlanetSolar is a vessel that is circumnavigating the globe to prove that solar energy can power water transportation.
Designed in New Zealand, built in Germany and flying a Swiss flag, the 102-foot boat has completed about two-thirds of a voyage that began in Monaco last September. So far it has sailed nearly 24,000 miles.
With its upper deck covered with over 5,300 square feet of photovoltaic solar panels, the Tûranor PlanetSolar uses lithium batteries that store solar energy and allow the ship to continue sailing through the night, or when the sky is overcast, at a speed of up to about 15 miles per hour.
Sun God Ra is for surely smiling as the wise species finally have recognised his might.
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