Fractal Solar Panels

Copyright Carl Janssen 2018 May 14

I was thinking about if we had no roads and used helicopter landing pads if that could be done without fuel such as gasoline or whatever helicopters use that is similar to how cars use gasoline.  I then thought maybe an electric helicopter but solar power might not work on a cloudy day leading to a fall from a very high height that is much more dangerous than a solar powered car running out of fuel of course they could be electrically charged on the ground and receive additional energy through solar power.

But the weight of the solar panels might be too heavy to produce enough electricity to enable the vehicle with solar panels to fly.  Then I thought the human body has a lot of parts with a very high surface area to volume ratio and fractals allegedly can have a unlimited surface area for a finite volume.  Changing the shape of solar panels might enable solar panels to get more power or energy from sunlight per volume and hence more power per weight or mass given a constant density.  I thought particularly about pine tree leaves because unlike human internal organs that work by diffusion of liquids the light tends to come in from a particular direction so creating extra surface area has limitations if some parts of the solar panel block other parts from receiving light in a way that is different then the way water diffuses thus requiring a different shape and being closer to cross sectional area than surface area mathematically but not necessarily exactly either one but probably a quantity in between those two types of areas based on the angle light hits the object being unable to use the extra portions of the surface area that are blocked by other parts of the panels but also having a higher area hit by light than the cross sectional area of a simpler shape of the same volume.

I then googled fractal solar panels to see if someone already came up with this idea so people would not say I stole it from a previous person's idea even though I came up with it on my own and found out other people had this idea before me.  And someone else already came up with a similar idea.

https://www.zmescience.com/research/tiny-tree-fractal-silver-solar-cells-043934/

 http://web.archive.org/web/20180514195748/https://www.zmescience.com/research/tiny-tree-fractal-silver-solar-cells-043934/