Topic: Solar Panel Tracking System using Plant Heliotropism
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Sabri, a team of MIT students recently invented a tracking device caled Heliotrope that was inspired by heliotropism, although the implemented used the differential expansion of different metals. A summary of their work will be published in the May issue of the BioInspired! Newsletter, due out May 31st.
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Hi, I found this article in a 1999 issue of Natural History, titled Sun Stalkers. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_4_108/ai_54574603/
We need lots of help getting more strategies like this one into AskNature. If you find a good scientific reference, we would love it if you could enter a new strategy page. Just fill in as much as you can, and we can fill in the rest. Then I can add the Heliotrope as a product. |
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Just discovered Zomework's Passive Tracker System, which uses the "sun's heat to move liquid from side to side, allowing gravity to turn the Track Rack™ and follow the sun – no motors, no gears and no controls to fail." Ref: http://zomeworks.com/products/pv-trackers/introduction
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Sabri,
Thanks for sharing the website for Zomework's Passive Tracker System. While it doesn't appear to be inspired by any particular organism, it does incorporate Life's Principles, particularly use of free energy. Nice. |
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Here is a new article about the MIT students:
http://www.robaid.com/bionics/biomimicry-of-heliotropic-plants-more-efficient-solar-panels.htm |
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I just added the MIT student's design as a product, with the status as "concept." See it at http://www.asknature.org/product/347aedb6508fed4c9a373bf3fc7eca65
Comments welcome on the write-up. |
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