<strong>Concentrated solar plants</strong> -- where rows of mirrors reflect the suns rays into a central generator tower -- already work a lot like a field of flowers. As the sun tracks across the sky, the shining mirrors rotate to follow it. But researchers at MIT have found that plants have more to offer -- and the secret is in the center of a <strong>sunflower</strong>. They tried to find the most efficient layout for a field full of mirrors and found their strange spiral-shaped answer<a href='http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/11/solar-biomimicry' target='_blank'> matched the arrangement of sunflower seeds in the head of the plant</a>.
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