How Bees Helped Engineers Solve a Flaw Regarded as Solar Panels' Biggest Shortcoming The world of engineering often looks to nature for inspiration, and recent breakthroughs in solar panel design are no exception.
Researchers have developed a new solar panel design that mimics the honeycomb architecture built by bees, tackling one of the technology's biggest limitations: energy loss when sunlight strikes at an angle.
Conventional flat solar panels generate electricity most effectively when sunlight falls directly on them.