JPL Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:41:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 NASA’s Origami Solar Panels https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-panels-origami-NASA/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-panels-origami-NASA/#respond Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:41:43 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=54309 NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers engineered solar panels inspired by the Japanese paper folding art, Origami. They are light, foldable and easily deployable. As far as I remember, a paper girl made out of a chocolate wrapper was my first origami artwork (though I came to know of the name ‘Origami’ only in my late teens). […]

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