Solar Panel 4.0

Have you ever wondered, won't solar panels just get dirty overtime and the sun moves so wont they not be as efficient? I have made a design to solve that exact problem using biomimicry. Biomimicry is where you take certain ideas from nature. I call it Solar Panel 4.0! I have used the louts leaf and the sunflower. I have used the "self-cleaning" of the lotus leaf by implying the triangular like things on the solar panels so dirt never stays on the solar panel and the solar panel can self clean itself which is extremely useful. I have also used how the sunflower follows the sun as the sun moves that way the solar panel can get the max amount of sunlight to improve the amount of energy it makes.

Tinkercad

Tinkercad experience

Step 1 :

Decided what plants to use as biomimicry and decide what to "take" from the plants

I choose to take the Lotus Effect from the Lotus leaf to clean the solar panel. I choose to take how the sunflower follows the sun that way the solar panels can be more efficient and follow the sun absorbing more sunlight which will produce more energy.

Step 2:

Open a new Tinkercad 3D design and have experience in using Tinkercad

Step 3:

Add a half sphere on the workspace to the desired color and desired size, to represent the sunflower following the sun. Then import a pre-made solar panel and place it right on top of the sphere and angel it to fit correctly on the sphere on the workspace and edit it to be the size you desire.

Take the "roof" block and make multiple of them and put them together to represent the triangles on the loutus leaf, that way the solar panel can self clean. Then add the loutus leaf pattern on the solar panel.

Add finishing touches like a sun or angle the solar panel to make it look like it is absorbing the maximum amount of the suns energy.

The last and final step would be the future. Where you physically make the Solar Panel 4.0 and make it function correctly in real life. That way clean energy can be improved which can help improve future technology that needs more electricity than we can produce now from solar panels.