Thursday, January 12, 2012

Sunflower spiral solar power

  • Perhaps we shouldnt be surprised that the fast-growing, brilliantly bright sunflower offers guidance on how best to gather solar energy.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Perhaps we shouldnt be surprised that the fast-growing, brilliantly bright sunflower offers guidance on how best to gather solar energy. 
Power tower CSP plants It had some spiral elements similar to layouts in nature.
  • (TG Daily)
  • Concentrated Solar Power pattern is the Fermat spiral, which is found in the spiraling pattern of florets in daisies and - fittingly - sunflowers.
  • (Gizmag)
  • The sprawling site, named PS10, is among a handful of concentrated solar had some spiral elements similar to layouts in nature. So the MIT team, working with Torrilhon, looked to nature for inspiration — specifically, to the sunflower.
  • (Product Design & Development)
  • Weve all seen concentrated solar power building a spiral-like pattern that reduces land by ten percent without affecting efficiency. Next they looked to nature to improve the design further.
  • (Wired.co.uk)

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