Solar panel

[Kaigen]

My sister sent me a link and I found it interesting enough to put it here in the forum. I searched the topic but could not find anything similar to this.
A young Man, Aidan wrote in American Museum of Natural History, young naturalist Awards 2011:

People see winter as a cold and gloomy time in nature. The days are short. Snow blankets the ground. Lakes and ponds freeze, and animals scurry to burrows to wait for spring. The rainbow of red, yellow and orange autumn leaves has been blown away by the wind turning trees into black skeletons that stretch bony fingers of branches into the sky. It seems like nature has disappeared.


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But when I went on a winter hiking trip in the Catskill Mountains in New York, I noticed something strange about the shape of the tree branches. I thought trees were a mess of tangled branches, but I saw a pattern in the way the tree branches grew. I took photos of the branches on different types of trees, and the pattern became clearer.

The branches seemed to have a spiral pattern that reached up into the sky. I had a hunch that the trees had a secret to tell about this shape. Investigating this secret led me on an expedition from the Catskill Mountains to the ancient Sanskrit poetry of India; from the 13th-century streets of Pisa, Italy, and a mysterious mathematical formula called the "divine number" to an 18th-century naturalist who saw this mathematical formula in nature; and, finally, to experimenting with the trees in my own backyard.

_http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/youngnaturalistawards/2011/aidan.html

Very interesting, I thought why scientists didn't came to this conclusion earlier. Probably the size of such panels would be a problem?

 

[Mr.Anderson]

Yes the spiral or tracking of the panels is a great idea however the additional cost of setting them up that way delays the 'all important' payback time. Also, a tracking system uses additional energy, ie more panels. But is does show the infinate wisdom of nature.