{"id":183090,"date":"2024-02-19T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-design-sunflower-city-to-boost-solar-energy-in-countries-with-relatively-low-levels-of-sunlight"},"modified":"2024-02-19T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T23:25:00","slug":"scientists-design-sunflower-city-to-boost-solar-energy-in-countries-with-relatively-low-levels-of-sunlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-design-sunflower-city-to-boost-solar-energy-in-countries-with-relatively-low-levels-of-sunlight","title":{"rendered":"Scientists design \u2018sunflower\u2019 city to boost solar energy in countries with relatively low levels of sunlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-design-sunflower-city-to-boost-solar-energy-in-countries-with-relatively-low-levels-of-sunlight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the distribution of sunflower seeds, a group of scientists say they have developed a new city-pattern that ensures the best distribution of solar energy utilization \u201cin low solar radiation countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur new city-plan bears close resemblance to the distribution of seeds in sunflowers. This distribution ensures the best utilization of solar <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a>,\u201d says Dr. Ammar A. T. Alkhalidi, University of Sharjah\u2019s Associate Professor of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Alkhalidi is the lead author of a new study titled \u201cSunflower-inspired urban city pattern to improve solar energy utilization in low solar radiation countries.\u201d The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S1755008423001230\">published<\/a> in journal Renewable Energy Focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the distribution of sunflower seeds, a group of scientists say they have developed a new city-pattern that ensures the best distribution of solar energy utilization \u201cin low solar radiation countries.\u201d \u201cOur new city-plan bears close resemblance to the distribution of seeds in sunflowers. This distribution ensures the best utilization of solar energy,\u201d says [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}