Shown in the photo on the left is our tough, reflective Thermal barrier fabric that can be used in both summer and winter to restrict the natural flow of heat into or out of a building. On hot summer days as window screens or above windows or patio covers as a sun shade, it will reflect most of the solar generated heat away from the building before it enters through windows or roofs. 45% diffused light still enters, but 70% of the heat is blocked. The best winter use is hanging it on the inside of windows, patio doors or skylights, where about 50% of your room's warmth is lost to the cold. Read more about Thermal Barrier Fabric and Solar Heating Drapes below.

And to stop nearly all direct solar generated heat, we now have a durable material even more reflective than Thermal Barrier Fabric. It's the world's coolest, most reflective (97.4%) solar tarp made: SolaReflex CoolTarp (click for details), shown on the right keeping a 135 degree F roof cool--to only 62 degrees. It's now available for limited beta testing. We call it "passive solar cooling by reflection."

Attention home owners, contractors, green builders and designers, click here to view our new web page with updated information and photos of our industrial grade, nearly 80% efficient Building Integrated Solar Forced Air heating panels for roof, wall or awnings mounting (preferred), seen on the left. You can now purchase these durable air heating panels using safe and secure PayPal order links on the BISFA web page. And have look at our prototype companion BISWH panel for solar water heating.

We've just posted a short PowerPoint presentation about the BISFA panel with new photos and more details that's 2.4 MB large, and easy for most computers to view. Once you've downloaded the first page that starts with "focus", use your right and left arrows and page up and down, home and end, to move through the program. When finished, use your back button to come back to your last web page.

Click here to see the informative BISFA PowerPoint presentation.

Our new Solar Still Water Purifier, left, is now available in two sizes. It's taken over seven years of innovation and trial and error to make many improvements to the traditional solar still. The new still design is much more efficient, unbreakable, and easy to set up and use. And it has an automatic foul water feeding system and pure water drain to a drinking water container included.

To read more about the most advanced solar distiller made, click here and you'll see more photos and read about all the benefits of drinking delicious ultra purified water using only the evaporative power of the sun. The total dissolved solids (TDS) in solar purified water averages 0-5 parts per million, while tap water ranges from 350-600, and filtered bottle water is around 20-50 TDS. It's the purest, best tasting water you'll every drink. Also check below for our newest and best solar cooker ever: the Octagon Parabolic Cooker that browns meat, bakes bread and can also distill any fould water source.

You can place your order for any of our products by using safe and secure PayPal order links on each of the product information pages. For more information on how to use and signon to PayPal please click on the links below. We also accept money orders through the mail. Most orders are processed in 1-3 weeks, depending on the type of product, and if any pre-assembly is required by us before shipment. For example, our solar forced air heaters and new solar stills are not fully assembled until the order is confirmed, and when we are overwhelmed with orders, it could take as many as 5 weeks to process the order. To check on current processing and delivery times, click on the email links on any page.
Click to learn more about PayPal online ordering

Thermal Barrier Fabric can cover an open beam patio cover or awning, which in summer reduces downward heat transmission.  It can be also as a temporary thermal shade cloth above a roof or greenhouse to reduce solar heat gain by 35 or more degrees. It can be attached to existing window coverings or hung from included suction cup hooks. Use it on camping trips or outings as a lightweight sunshade. As an added benefit, 15 mph winds will slow to only 2-3 mph  behind either fabric outdoors on your next outing, which nearly eliminates the wind chill effect on cool days.

Sunlit windows can now be turned into giant solar radiators with our new interior black Radiant solar heating drapes (photo on right). If you choose to not block the view outdoors, you can even lay them flat on the sunlit floor near windows. And to speed snow or ice melting on sunlit driveways or walkways, lay the fabric over the snow or ice and weigh down the corners with rocks or bricks. Instead of being highly reflective like the thermal barrier fabric, it is a deep black, heat and UV resistant HDPE (high density polyethylene)weatherproof plastic cloth and specially designed to absorb solar energy and efficiently convert it to heat.  It's not a total black out curtain because the outside can be seen on a sunny day.

Positioned near a clear glass surface, temperatures well over 130 F degrees can be generated and radiated back into the room on cold, sunny winter days. In numerous tests in Missouri and New York, on sunny days with 0-20 temperatures outdoors, heating fabric morning temps rose up to 115-125 degrees F behind clear double glazed glass. By heating the fabric and glass above the ambient room temperature, heat can't escape and the windows become thermal barriers to reduce further heat loss. That's because hot always travels to cold, and not the opposite.

Another type of behind-the-glass solar heating product is now available to purchase. It also hangs from sunlit windows using suction cup hooks. It's called our interior window Radiant solar heating panel, and it follows the ClearDome style of heating, where the clear window glass passes sunlight and helps trap the heat to raise the temperature as it's radiated into the room. It measures 2' x 4', weighs only one pound, and can be trimmed with scissors to fit smaller windows. Because of it's excellent solar absorption (94%), thermal mass, and close proximity to the glass, it generates much more heat than any other object in the room touched by the sun.

Panel temperatures can reach 130-140 degrees F, nearly as warm as baseboard heaters. Like the other products, it's safe and free to operate and at $59 it's the lowest priced and only radiant solar room heater made.  Both heaters and the barrier fabric don't stink or off-gas, and require no additional power to generate up to 2,000 BTU per panel on a sunny day. Please check our radiant heating and thermal barrier web page for prices, and updates for all of these unique radiant heating products.

Here's the most efficient way to stay cozy this winter and feel the warmth of pure, safe active solar heat...  at home, at play, and at work.  Our solar forced air heaters work at any elevation, at any temperature and even on light cloudy days.

50 - 70% of your yearly utility costs are spent on heating during winter months so you'll find this to be another affordable way to reduce expensive heating bills. They heat faster and warm larger spaces better than our Solar Heating Drapes mentioned above. When south facing sunlit windows aren't available for solar heating, our solar forced air panels can be wall or roof mounted so the warm air can be ducted into living spaces below. You can heat just an enclosed room or an entire home or office, depending on how many of our  high quality solar air heating collectors you install, even during power outages!

We are one of only a handful of renewable energy companies in the world that design and sell high quality active solar forced air heaters for both residential and commercial use.

Our 6th generation Building Integrated Solar Forced Air heating panels, left, are designed for sunlit south facing wall mounts, in existing 16" standing seam metal roofs, and stand-alone installations as in this photo. Since they only weigh 3.5 pounds per linear foot, they are also ideal for RV's, boats, campers and remote uses.

We've combined the strength, durability and great looks of the metal framed Exterior panel and the affordability of the previous generation Low Profile panel into the new BISFA heating panel, which comes in three sizes. It's 30% hotter, and more efficient so you get more usable heat per dollar, since each 8' panel generates over 800 watts of heat energy using only the power of the sun.  The internal solar heat absorber has been upgraded with a superior quality "selective surface" sheet of our new Ultra Blackflex solar heat collector that provides 95% solar absorption and .05 emissivity.

Mammoth Mountain Ski area in the California High Sierras has been using seven of our 4th generation Exterior forced air heating panels, seen in this photo, on their remote ski lift shacks on 10,000 foot high mountain ridges to increase warmth inside and reduce expensive heating costs. Each small building is subject to extreme temperatures (as low as -25 degrees F), high wind (110 mph+) and heavy hail and snow conditions unlike most other places on earth. After over four years of frequent use, we're confident they, and our newest, more durable BISFA panels can also withstand the most severe weather conditions.  

The Building Integrated Solar Forced Air heat collectors are so affordable ($395-$695 each), you won't need a government tax rebate program to afford one of the most efficient (estimated 80%), least costly types of solar renewable energy products available for domestic use.

Generate off-the-gird,  free hot air for your home when our optional custom 20 watt solar electric PV panel is used to power the fan that circulates the warm air.. . . even in extremely cold temperatures high in the mountains. They can also be mounted on RV's boats and trailor homes.  Click for more details on our BISFA heating panels.

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Lightweight, unbreakable ClearDome SolaReflex
Parabolic Cooking Reflectors Are the Fastest & Hottest!

The popular SolaReflex 900 on the left is shown cooking in the snow on a freezing day.
And here's a look at our top-rated SolaReflex AA Octagon Parabolic cooker
on the right that's so hot, fast, and easy to use, that it has replaced our older
Pyramid solar cooker. Click on the right photo for more details.

Here are two of at  the hottest, fastest cooking 24" parabolic cookers made - the SolaReflex 900 shown above and on the right is our new Octagon Parabolic solar cooker, which cooks nearly as fast as the 900, but once set, needs no sun adjustment, has a number of unique cooking attachments and costs only $189. Both are all-weather, extremely durable, top quality solar cookers that will cook family meals and Pasteurize water in only 45-90 minutes on sunny days. Also have a look at our 900X Parabolic and SolaReflex 2500SA, our scientific/education parabolic heat generators that can reach 1400-2800 degress F and melt metals! Sorry, they are too hot for solar cooking food and not available to everyone.  The 24", 2500SA is a mirror surface, Spun Aluminum center focus parabolic designed for special applications.

Many experienced solar cookers use plastic bags to trap heat around pots, but our new unbreakable polycarbonate  ClearDome Clear Dome Pot cover  won't leak and can be used for many years to bake bread and to cook on cold and windy days with our 900 parabolic cooker and new Octagon Parabolic cooker.

And when the sun goes down, or it's a cloudy and cold day, here's the perfect alternative fuel cooker that uses a waste product--compressed sawdust-- for very fast, clean, and hot cooking. It's called a Wood Pellet Camp and Survival Stove seen on the left, and you can read more about it and see photos of it own our new webpage by clicking here. It's actually a very efficient multi-biofuel stove that can burn a variety of dried plants, or small tree parts with very little smoke. Besides wood pellets, our second favorite fuel is dried and cut bamboo, the fastest growing plant on earth.

Solar cooking is by far the healthiest way to cook your food and to find out how to stay healthier with whole food nutrition, please click on the link below to contact wellness consultant Sky Jeannette in San Diego, California.

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Juice Plus + ® Provides the nutritional essence of 17 different fruits, vegetables and grains in a convenient capsule form.
Click here to learn how to give your family the nutrition it needs.

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Hot Tub/Spa Water Heating Pads help keep
your spa hot and lower heating bills

Our unique spa water heating pads now available to purchase from our product order pages. To see if your exterior, sun exposed hot tub can use only the free power of the sun to stay hot in spring, summer and early fall,  click here for more information. They are a completely new type of lightweight, passive inexpensive solar water heating panels designed for sun exposed home spas and small pools smaller than eight feet across in above freezing temperatures. The clear unbreakable polycarbonate pads float on top of the water and allow solar energy to pass through and warm the water 10-15 degrees or more every sunny day while trapping the heat and preventing evaporation. It turns the water into a giant solar heat absorber and reduces heating costs by up to 95% in summer months.

They are custom fit and cut for all shapes of spas. Numerous beta testers from around the US including Hawaii, Mexico, Florida and California have confirmed hot tub water heating temps often rising to over 105 degrees F nearly every sunny day in late spring and summer without using their expensive electric heater. One happy user in Mexico uses them during winter months at their retreat with suprisingly good results. Some owners had to add shade or cool water to reduce the water temperature before soaking.(Inside tip: To see if your spa will work with these new easy-to-use solar water heating pads please click on the photo below for more details. We also have the first generation twin-wall floating solar water heating pads for animal troughs in remote areas that melts icy water.

 

Click for more photos and details

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Two outstanding solar heating products you won't find anywhere else: ClearDome SolaReflex Foil & AA Panels

 and BlackFlex Solar Absorption Foil
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Improved SolaReflex reflects an amazing 97.4% of all solar energy!

Click photo for more SolaReflex details

You can get the fastest, hottest solar heating or cooking possible with our SolaReflex diffused reflective foil (above photo), using your own solar cooker design made with this remarkably lightweight, nearly untearable, waterproof, flexible material. Please note: we've improved upgraded our well-known SolaReflex diffused heavy duty diffused reflective foil and made it stronger, lighter and slightly thinner so it's even easier to use with the same extremely high level of reflectance for maximum radiant energy reflectivity. As a result, it and our super hot parabolic cookers are now called SolaReflex reflectors.

It works so well that NASA has been using this same type of material for years to protect the astronauts and their equipment while in outer space. It's very tough and refoldable many times. There are many uses for this durable foil at home, at work, and even for your pets! We're now testing a protoype solar and self heating pet enclosure that uses SolaReflex foil inside to keep all your pets warmer outdoors or indoors on cold nights.

For even brighter and more directional solar reflections take a look at our SolaReflex AA reflector and daylighting panels , available now. We've found an innovative way to eliminate the need to laminate SolaReflex foil to flat surfaces or parabolics, which improves the reflective surface to a near-mirror and mirror surface. And we're now using a patented process to bond this tough, highly reflective metal surface directly to the surface of flat, bendable polished anodized aluminun 2'x4' sheets, called SolaReflex AA reflectors. We're also using this process on our new 900+ degree SolaReflex 900 and 900X (1300+ degree) parabolic reflectors. As an added benefit, it has a hard invisible protective surface to better protect the surface from scratches, foul weather, UV and salt air.

Combine it with ClearDome's BlackFlex thick aluminum foil below, to design your own very inexpensive, very lightweight, very hot solar oven or solar air heating unit. Discounted bulk sizes of both products are now available.

ClearDome Solar Blackflex Absorption foil

ClearDome Solar Blackflex is the ideal flexible, thick flat black (both sides) aluminum foil for absorbing solar energy and directly converting it into heat. It absorbs 88% of sunlight and instantly converts it to heat. Use it for solar air heater and solar oven construction or for any experimental solar heating project where very fast heat generation from the sun is desired.  We used it in our older ClearDome Solar forced air heaters and for heating demonstrations. It can be formed and folded many times, survives direct flames to over 1,000 degrees F, and while it is non-toxic and non gassing, we suggest not cooking food directly on the surface. Standard size is 2' X 4', shipped rolled in a durable cardboard tube. Discounted prices are available for bulk orders.   Price is only $18 plus S & H. (up to 4 sheets can be shipped for the same shipping fee) Click for questions

Click here to order $18- 2x4' Blackflex foil sheet using PayPal.
Up to four sheets can be shipped for the same shipping fee.

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Click to order $75 Blackflex heat absorber foil-2x25' roll.
Two rolls can be shipped with no additional shipping fee. Overseas shipping will cost more.

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ClearDome quicklinks:  Ultra Black Solar Forced Air Heaters|Hot tub/spa solar water heating pads
 Mylar $10 Cooking Reflector |SolaReflex 97.4% reflector foil & panels  |Answer your solar questions 

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