{"id":1836,"date":"2011-08-22T07:59:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T11:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2011-08-22T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T12:00:29","slug":"cool-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=1836","title":{"rendered":"Cool Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The website <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\"><em>Watts Up With That?<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2011\/08\/19\/novel-idea-arrange-solar-panels-like-nature-designed-it\/#more-45416\">shows us something novel and cool<\/a> where science is concerned.  In particular, it involves a solar panel array and how best to arrange it.<\/p>\n<p>A 7th grader designed a 5V solar array based on the arrangement of leaves on an oak tree.  It outperformed a typical flat array in overall output as well as the length of time the panel generated electricity.  The results and original link are all in the above link.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;d of thought that something that depends on sunlight for it&#8217;s existence would be well designed for the situation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website Watts Up With That? shows us something novel and cool where science is concerned. In particular, it involves a solar panel array and how best to arrange it. A 7th grader designed a 5V solar array based on the arrangement of leaves on an oak tree. It outperformed a typical flat array in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}