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Brand New Day

Brand New Day

3D Printed Trees. From Little Ideas
Bigger Ones Grow.

These mini-solar panels have
been in development and
application for the past 5 years.
They are the brainchild of VIT
Technical Research Centre of
Finland.

The 3D printed stems & leaves
are organic solar cells. The leaves, are also solar panels,
which harvest energy.The trunks are made from a wood-
based bio composites.

The solar energy from these trees is used for running
various applications around the house that include:
humidifiers, mobile devices, LED light bulbs, thermometers,
and other household appliances. They are not designed
for larger industrial power generation requirements.

But the idea behind these litle gems is one that is
already starting to spawn a new generation of solar tree
thinking.

In India, for example researchers
have developed a solar power tree
they claim can produce 5 kilowatts
of electricity while using only 4
square feet of land.
This idea, developed by India’s
Central Mechanical Engineering
Research Institute captures rays
from the sun using an innovative
8 arrangement of solar cells. The solar
tree uses steel “branches” to hold multiple solar panels high
off the ground. The array can be also reoriented during the
day to stay facing the sun, which increases output by an
additional 10%.

Info Source Steve Hanley

The Ideas Powering
Our Sustainable Future
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