Sunflower Shaped Solar Panel and Water Collector.

I love this clever design. We keep coming up with newer and better ways to live clean and not kill the planet! I wonder what other clever shapes and designs people will come up with!

Snipped from Inhabit News: IBM Research and Swiss solar technology company Airlight Energy just unveiled a cutting-edge solar system that resembles a 10-meter-high sunflower! The High Concentration PhotoVoltaic Thermal (HCPVT) system can concentrate the sun’s radiation 2,000 times and convert 80 percent of it into useful energy, generating up to 12 kilowatts of electrical power and 20 kilowatts of heat on a sunny day—enough to power several average homes. Oh, and it can also produce clean, fresh water as a result of the process used to cool the solar cells!

Read more here..... 
http://inhabitat.com/ibms-new-sunflower-shaped-solar-concentrators-produce-energy-and-fresh-water/