MIT Making Super Efficient Origami Solar Panels 140
ByronScott writes "Could the next solar panels be in the shapes of origami cranes? They could be if MIT power engineering professor Jeffrey Grossman has his say. Standard flat solar panels are only optimized to capture sunlight at one point of the sun's trajectory — otherwise they need automated tracking systems to follow the sun. But Grossman found that folded solar cell systems could produce constant power throughout the day sans tracking and his new designs are up to two and a half times more efficient per comparative length and width than traditional flat arrays."
Folding@home? (Score:4, Funny)
Useless approximation (Score:4, Funny)
Folded Solar Cells (Score:5, Funny)
Capturing sunlight all day
It's been done before
Re:Go get some culture (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Tired of hearing about super efficient.. (Score:1, Funny)
as a solar panel researcher, i will outline the problem:
every startup that i work for makes super efficient solar cells and panels. we generate so much energy in the R&D phase that we have to pay people to take it off of our hands. we eventually spend all of our VC paying people to take all that extra energy off our hands and we collapse financially.
my most recent solar cell array is so efficient, it burns down most houses only minutes after installation.