1. Like others said this is in comparison to a flat non tracking solar panel, the tree configuration would lose out significantly against a tracking panel.
2. Fairly disingenuous graph on the second page, but then again professionals in business and science do this all the time as well.
3. With the current state of solar technology this patent is useless. But if someone invents solar cells who are so cheap that they cost less than the solar tracking equipment, this could become quite a lucrative patent.
4. I wasn't aware you could patent things which are this directly copied from nature. I was under the impression that you could say patent a mechanism which emulates the motion of a specific fish but not the motion itself, or can you ?
1. Like others said this is in comparison to a flat non tracking solar panel, the tree configuration would lose out significantly against a tracking panel.
2. Fairly disingenuous graph on the second page, but then again professionals in business and science do this all the time as well.
3. With the current state of solar technology this patent is useless. But if someone invents solar cells who are so cheap that they cost less than the solar tracking equipment, this could become quite a lucrative patent.
4. I wasn't aware you could patent things which are this directly copied from nature. I was under the impression that you could say patent a mechanism which emulates the motion of a specific fish but not the motion itself, or can you ?