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13-Year-Old Has a Solar Power Breakthrough

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The tree design made 20% more electricity and collected 2 1/2 more hours of sunlight during the day. But the most interesting results were in December, when the Sun was at its lowest point in the sky. The tree design made 50% more electricity, and the collection time of sunlight was up to 50% longer!"

Did you hear that? All of the smart-guys in the country who spent their time trying to make solar power more efficient were just outsmarted by a thirteen-year-old and a tree.

Genius 13-Year-Old Has a Solar Power Breakthrough

Wow, this is awesome. :mrgreen:
 
Clearly the kid is the devil, and he needs to be purged to prevent his evil from spreading
 
Wow, this is awesome. :mrgreen:

It will be interesting to see in 20-50 years from now if scientist take his crude solar panel tree there and make a realistic looking tree (that looks like a real tree)that draws in more power. Hopefully the kid gets rich off this, innovation should be rewarded.
 
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<Meanwhile, Big Energy is plotting to have the boy expelled from school on trumped up charges. Soon after he will manned off to a "special school" and never heard from again.>

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This kid may have seen programs like this:

 
Wow, this is awesome. :mrgreen:

With kids like this, it's obvious that America is finished. I'll bet the Chinese just imprisoned a couple hundred kids for not thinking of this.
 
*shakes head*


Kid does something absolutely awesome and the knee jerk reaction is to start throwing out politically-charged insults and accusations?

We should all hold hands and sing some kumbaya or something. Too much bitter division on the board lately.
 
Wow, this is awesome. :mrgreen:

I totally thought about this concept when I was around 13...though not quite as technically inclined at the time. I asked a teacher why we didn't just make solar panels that looked like trees. She said they all had to face the sun in order to produce electricity. WTF did I know, I shrugged my shoulders and went back to life. Gratz to this kid for all his hard work.

I can't wait to have a solar tree on top of my electric car once libs inevitably legislate more retarded green-laws (oh, but we can't have blue-laws, wtf).
 
*shakes head*


Kid does something absolutely awesome and the knee jerk reaction is to start throwing out politically-charged insults and accusations?

We should all hold hands and sing some kumbaya or something. Too much bitter division on the board lately.
Just making the point to those that think America is over, are just clueless about what America is really all about. There are plenty of China worshippers out there rubbing their hands together of the demise of the US. This great story and the one about DARPA's Mach 20 aircraft just show how false this kind of thinking is.
 
Hats off to that young genius :) people like him is what made the world what it is
 
*shakes head*


Kid does something absolutely awesome and the knee jerk reaction is to start throwing out politically-charged insults and accusations?

We should all hold hands and sing some kumbaya or something. Too much bitter division on the board lately.

Harsh criticism is part of the process. Nothing is sacred. This is a good learning experience for him.

We should make a concentrated effort to attack him personally on his age so that we can get the "ignore the bull **** and let it roll off your shoulders" lesson out of the way and get back to exploring new ways to apply technology.
 
Harsh criticism is part of the process. Nothing is sacred. This is a good learning experience for him.

We should make a concentrated effort to attack him personally on his age so that we can get the "ignore the bull **** and let it roll off your shoulders" lesson out of the way and get back to exploring new ways to apply technology.

Perhaps we should challenge his sexuality or accuse him of illicit sexual proclivities.
 
Awesome, and very intersting potential. Find a way to mask these by making them actually appear like real tree's and you could overcome one of the issue with solar panels and their "eyesore" type look.
 
Awesome, and very intersting potential. Find a way to mask these by making them actually appear like real tree's and you could overcome one of the issue with solar panels and their "eyesore" type look.

I'm sure we could call in cell-phone companies to consult how to hid technology in plane sight:

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Outstanding!!! Universities should be scooping that boy up like they would an outstanding athlete!

It is great to see the breakthroughs that are being made in solar power! Here is another recent one:

"The breakthrough – unveiled Friday in a scientific paper in the Journal of Applied Physics – shows that if light is intense enough, it can, when traveling through nonconductive material, generate voltage from magnetic effects 100 million times stronger than earlier expected. Such magnetic effects produce a strong electric field that can be harnessed for electric power production, Dr. Rand and Mr. Fisher say.

“This could lead to a new kind of solar cell without semiconductors and without absorption to produce charge separation,” Rand said in a statement. “In solar cells, the light goes into a material, gets absorbed and creates heat. Here, we expect to have a very low heat load. Instead of the light being absorbed, energy is stored in the magnetic moment.”

Solar power: breakthrough could herald big drop in costs - CSMonitor.com

It will even better for us, and our economy, when we learn to apply what we already know about solar power, increased efficiency, and conservation! :sun
 
Someone pointed this story out to me the other day. It's a really interesting discovery and innovation. I'm just hoping they can make them look better than the cell tower trees that we've got in a couple places around New England. I'll be interested to see what becomes of it.
 
Someone pointed this story out to me the other day. It's a really interesting discovery and innovation. I'm just hoping they can make them look better than the cell tower trees that we've got in a couple places around New England. I'll be interested to see what becomes of it.

I wish the article went into a little more detail of the formula and what recurring patterns trees make depending on their species and location.
 
I wish the article went into a little more detail of the formula and what recurring patterns trees make depending on their species and location.

It is actually based on the Fibonacci sequence, worth looking up. Its one of those "divine mathematics" things. Math that shows up in natural systems everywhere. Nautilus shells and the temple of the Ark of the Covenant, right?
 
Clearly the kid is the devil, and he needs to be purged to prevent his evil from spreading

Rick Perry would agree with that, since he believes electricity comes from God, not from solar cells.
 
Rick Perry would agree with that, since he believes electricity comes from God, not from solar cells.

To those who believe in God, all things come from God as he created all things. Literally he knows electricity is generated by solar cells which convert photons into electrons but the ability for solar cells to exist at all are of man and man of God. See how it works or are you just trying to be cheeky?
 
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