Sunflowers Inspire More Efficient Solar Power System
From Energy Harvesting Journal
A field of young sunflowers will slowly rotate from east to west during the course of a sunny day, each leaf seeking out as much sunlight as possible as the sun moves across the sky through an adaptation called heliotropism.
It”s a clever bit of natural engineering that inspired imitation from a University of Wisconson-Madison electrical and computer engineer, who has found a way to mimic the passive heliotropism seen in sunflowers for use in the next crop of solar power systems.
