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13-Year-Old Replicates Fibonacci Sequence in Trees to Produce Solar Power

 
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13-Year-Old Replicates Fibonacci Sequence in Trees to Produce Solar Power
It was the artist Vincent Van Gogh that wisely spoke the words, “It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one’s youth”. As the mind of a young individual molds to see the world in a new way, something changes; the child-ness that belongs in every human spirit tends to become lost, replaced by limited thinking.

However, that is all changing, especially as generations older reflect on the importance of assisting brilliant, young minds to create the ‘impossible’ only the uninhibited could dream up.

An example is shared in Aidan Dywer, a 13-year-old that uncovered the mystery of how trees get enough sunlight in a crowded forest.

While walking through the forest of Long Island, New York, Aidan pondered how all the leaves get enough sunlight. His conclusion was that trees spiral up using the Fibonacci sequence.

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Anybody care?
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True Activist? Wtf? You are a Marxist.
Fuck Off Marxist Shill Borg Brain
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Re: 13-Year-Old Replicates Fibonacci Sequence in Trees to Produce Solar Power
Interesting thread OP. I have both solar and wind power. When there is sun and no wind my batteries charge, when there is wind and no sun my batteries charge, when there is both wind and sun my batteries charge.

This is an interesting concept in any event.
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Thank you OP - just watched the video with my 10 year old son. We were both fascinated.
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Why would someone give this one star?

I give this 5 stars, very interesting.
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awesomeness

Last Edited by woowoochic on 11/23/2013 10:15 PM
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this is really old. i remember reading this about 6 years ago.
but its a great concept, and the design is more efficient.
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I give this 5 stars, very interesting.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 45288267


bump
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The golden mean ratio is seen in the unfolding of every seed, plant and animal alike!
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Yes, very much so this is the type of pioneering out if the box thinking we need to save us from ourselves an get us out of the mess we are in from corporate gods having a monopoly on energy thus power, this kid gives me hope for his generation that there are not all rap jerk off brained washed, shootem up game addict idiots with not enough since to even pull there pants up ;)
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If nature could build all its leafs on the south side of the trunk, and cause them to follow the sun, why wouldn't it? Since nature doesn't do that, presumably, nature can't do that.
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Interesting. Thank you OP.

I was pondering with a friend as to why we could not get power from natural solar collectors,....Tree leaves.

Maybe someday.



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True Activist? Wtf? You are a Marxist.
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Huh? Someone sent me the link. I read the story but don't know anything about the website it's on.
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Thank you OP - just watched the video with my 10 year old son. We were both fascinated.
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Cool! I'm going to watch it with my step daughter when she comes over. It's so great to see kids interested in science.
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posting this two years too late
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Anybody care?
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Yes, very much so this is the type of pioneering out if the box thinking we need to save us from ourselves an get us out of the mess we are in from corporate gods having a monopoly on energy thus power, this kid gives me hope for his generation that there are not all rap jerk off brained washed, shootem up game addict idiots with not enough since to even pull there pants up ;)
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Yay, people care!! hf

It gives me hope for the new generation, too.
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Very interesting, considering that trees move their leaves, I wonder if a tree composed of smaller panels would be more efficient than a motorized rotating panel of the same surface area.hmm
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Smart kid for noticing how clever nature is. The leaves and branches on a tree also act as a rain catchment guiding water and nutrients from the dust they collect down to their roots.
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Interesting! Thanks OP for posting this. 5* and green karma. Brilliant to see the up and coming generations using their minds and creativity to create things like this!

hf
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Stupid 2 years ago and stupid now.

It is not an efficient design at all because the panels aren't aligned optimally.

Of course, the real stupidity of the design is that it is much more complex than a normal solar panel, which makes it both more expensive to manufacture and more fragile.

But hey, some retarded kid built it and he made it sort of look like a small tree - people go ga-ga over that shit.
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Now if only we could figure out how electricity bettered life on earth.
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Photosynthesis combined with solar power.

We'll need something to counteract the chemtrails and the intentional "global dimming" per the ongoing geo-engineering operation world-wide.....
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In the video where they showed Barry, he clearly had no idea what the kid was talking about.
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Anybody care?
 Quoting: Isobella


No.

Everyone already knows a spiral is better then a square.


Stop posting old news.
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Have you known many children? Most of them are quite limited. Geniuses are not deterred today at all.
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Anybody care?
 Quoting: Isobella


No.

Everyone already knows a spiral is better then a square.


Stop posting old news.
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It was new to me and I didn't see that it had ever been posted on the site, so I posted it. Why do you care if it's old or not? Kids thinking instead of playing video games = awesome.
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hmm

Lovely story.... but.... isn't the conclusion sorta dead-obvious?


[link to io9.com]
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In the video where they showed Barry, he clearly had no idea what the kid was talking about.
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he doesn't know what many people are talking about, though, including himself
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hmm

Lovely story.... but.... isn't the conclusion sorta dead-obvious?


[link to io9.com]
 Quoting: pi


The cool thing about the story is that akid is interested in science and nature and doesn't have his head up his ass. The conclusion is not dead obvious to everyone.





GLP