The most economical and most practical way to reduce your utility bills by 50-75% is
by using free solar thermal energy to warm the air inside of your home or business.
It's also the most practical way for your family to personally reduce global
warming and air pollution by reducing the amount of non-renewable fossil
fuel consumption like gas, wood, coal or oil.
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Are you aware that you'll
spend more money heating your home or office each year than heating the
water or using electricity? It's true, check your annual bills.
(Of course this assumes
you haven't already turned off your gas, electric, oil or coal heater in
winter like many of our customers because it's become too expensive to
stay comfortable in your own home.)
Generating hot air from
the sun's energy is the most efficient, least costly way of transforming
solar energy to domestic energy uses. After designing five previous generations
of high quality solar space heating collectors, ClearDome Solar Thermal
has finally perfected the art of making free hot air from sunshine.
Each linear foot of our
new Building Integrated Solar Forced Air (BISFA) Ultra Black heating panels
will produce over 100 peak watts of heat energy, or 300 BTU's at nearly
80% efficiency on a sunny day. This means that our eight foot long, 16"
wide panel like the one shown above on the garage roof edge will produce well over 800 watts, or over 2500 BTU per hour of pure peak heat
energy from the sun.
$1 per BISFA watt vs $9 per
PV watt
BISFA Ultra Black panels can
generate hot air for less than $1 per usable watt, based on the purchase
price of the installed heating system. Once you've received payback of
your solar air heating system in a few years or less your annual solar heating
savings will increase each year as conventional energy becomes more scarce, causing
it to rise more and more. The price of using the sun as a fuel source will
always be free and abundant.
Browse the Internet and
compare the price and efficiency of our 80% efficient hot air panels to
typical 13% efficient solar electric (PV) panels that cost an average of
$9 per installed watt, and you'll see why taxpayer funding and mounds of
government red tape is needed to be able to afford a $20,000 rooftop PV
array that makes enough electricity to power a hair dryer.
Now you know why solar
PV electric is impractical for heating your home. It's just too expensive.
Each of our 8 foot long
large BISFA heating panels will increase room temperatures by 10-15 degrees
F or more, on all sunny days in well-insulated 500 square foot rooms with
8' ceilings. So to make a 1,000 square foot home feel much more comfortable,
even on partly cloudy days, you would normally only need two panels, or
add another to boost the heat even more--especially if you live in a less
sunny or sub-zero location. The more air heating panels you install, the
faster heating and warmer your home will be, and will remain warm well
into the night. For smaller rooms or limited wall space, use our 4' or
6' panels. Each 4' panel adds ample warmth to 100-150 square foot room, and the 6' panel is perfect for
250-300 sqare foot rooms, both with 8' ceilings.
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 get back to your last web page.
Click here to see the BISFA PowerPoint.
And if the price of our
panels seems too high for your present budget, here's a more affordable
way to help keep your home warm, using south facing sunlit windows. Have
a look at our popular $85
Solar Heating Drapes and Thermal Barrier Fabric.
All day solar warmth that's
been absorbed by the furniture, walls, floor and ceiling, is radiated back
into the room long after the sun sets, helping you save lots on conventional
heating costs. Our solar forced air heating system is not designed to be
connected to existing heating systems. When enough panels are installed on south facing walls or roofs,
you'll normally only need to add conventional heat late at night and early
in the morning, unless you experience consecutive overcast days. Cold outside
air has very little effect on solar heating with our panels.
Durable weather and heat resistant
panel construction
Our standard
4, 6 or 8 foot long panels are industrial grade and made of sturdy custom-formed
16 (about 1/16" thick) gauge aluminum with a tough, baked-on black powder coating. We suggest using a contractor, solar installer, qualified handyman or HVAC installer to mount your panels.
They cost between 395 and $749 per panel plus shipping/handling,
depending on the length. Purchase two panels and we'll pay the extra shipping cost. This is quite a savings over our previous panels,
since our fourth generation metal framed exterior 8' panels were a few
hundred dollars more and generated 25% less heat per square foot. 
The clear front side glazing
is unbreakable heat and UV resistant 1/8" thick, non toxic clear polycarbonate
plastic and our top-rated selective surface Ultra Blackflex 95% absorption, .05
emissive solar heat absorber is the same as our previous Low Profile UB
panels seen on the right (now replaced by the BISFA heating panels). And
we've been able to squeeze out a few more degrees of heat by further improving
the current design.
They are lightweight, at
only about 3.25 lbs per linear foot, only 2-1/4" thick and 15-1/2" wide
at the base, with a 1" lip on each top side, and can be connected connect
together to increase the heating temperatures, or they wil sit in the channels
of existing metal standing seam roofs like the UniSolar Smartroof PV installation,
or mounted directly on walls. If you already have a UniSolar Standing Seam
PV electric roof installed, you can reduce or nearly eliminate heating
costs by adding these unique solar thermal air panels.
Each panel comes with a
standard 100 CFM, 12 volt DC fan housed inside a sturdy metal enclosure
that attaches to the intake 4" vent.
It also includes a plug-in 12 volt power supply,
and for off the grid use, you can also power the fan with our custom designed optional 12 volt,
15 watt PV electric panel for $195, left photo, that plugs directly into the fan for off the
grid use. Using the PV panel insures sunny daytime heating even during grid power outages. This fan is designed for close mounting use with ducts less than
three feet long. For longer ducts, and more air flow with the 8' or multiple connected panels,
we suggest considering a low noise bathroom fan, available at most home
supply stores. An internally mounted on/off thermostat turns the fan on
automatically when the heat absorber reaches about 100 degrees F, and off around 70 degrees F so cold air can't be blown in at night.
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Incoming and outgoing 4"
vents are normally mounted on opposite ends of the back side of the panel,
but air flow can also pass through the opposite ends of the sides of the
panel for some types of special roof installations, especially when a mixture
of fresh outside air is added to the air circulation.
Heat in summer, cool in winter
Cover south
facing sunlit roofs seen in the top photo, or walls (seen in photo on the left) of your house or business
with as many panels needed to heat the entire interior space--even in
work spaces or animal enclosures.
In summer, you can even vent the panels
to the outdoors for solar cooling on the roof suface area covered by the
panels. This happens because nearly all of the solar heat that otherwise
saturates roofs or walls is absorbed inside the panels and carried back
to the sky by moving air from the low powered fan away from the surface.
More and more
people around the world are shivering on freezing cold winter days --
not outdoors,
but inside their own home!
Why?
They can't afford the increasingly
high cost of keeping their home warm because it's getting so expensive. Non-renewable fuel sources
like gas, oil and coal are getting so expensive that living comfort has
taken a back seat to other necessities like health care and food. Sadly,
the cost for staying comfortable at home using conventional fuel will never
go down. It will continue to rise through the years as heating fuel becomes
more scarce and too expensive for the majority of the population.
ClearDome Solar Themal has found
a simple way to maximize the sun's free energy to reduce heating costs
by at least 50-75%. Transforming sunshine into warm air is presently
one of the most efficient uses (75-80% efficient) of solar energy if you have
the right componants.
Expensive Solar electric panels
are about 12-15% efficient, while solar water heating panels average 40%.
Neither are normally used for home heating because of the high product
and installation costs.
Our durable, proven heat collectors
are called solar forced air heaters because cool air is forced by a fan
through a specially designed solar heating panel that absorbs heat energy
generated by the sun. The solar energy to heat conversion is instant and
constant as long as the sun shines--even on light cloudy days. That heat that exits the panel is what
will warm your home, office, RV, boat, camper, or animal enclosure.
The only expense for sending
the solar heated air inside is the cost to power the 12 volt, .6 amp fan.
When using the included plug-in power supply, we estimate it will cost
less than 18 cents per month to run 6 hours a day. Add an optional 21 watt
solar electric panel, and the warm air will be free!
And if you send outside fresh
air through the panels, the inside of your house will lose the stale, toxin-filled
smells so common during winter months.
Consider the many uses of solar hot air
- Here's customer Terry holding
one of his pampered chickens after he installed one of our older 2x8 Exterior
air heating panels on a well-constructed A-frame animal enclosure that
houses dozens of chickens. Chickens won't lay eggs when it gets too cold,
but by adding lots of free heat from the sun, Terry's probably got the
happiest, best winter producing chickens in the midwest!
- In early 2001, we started
testing our metal framed Exterior solar forced air heater on ski lift shacks in the
high sierra mountains. As a result of these successful tests, Mammoth
Mountain and June Mountain are now the first USA Ski resorts to use our
solar forced air heating panels to help keep their hardy workers warm.
They have seven of our 2x4 Exterior hot air collectors. The first two were
installed at the top of Chair lift 3 and 14, at nearly 11,000 foot elevation.
-The Los Angeles, California
lifeguard department received a 2x4 Exterior air heating panel,
and one of our first 2x4 water heating panels to install on one of their
lifeguard towers in Venice Beach for testing. They require guard service
even in winter months when the towers stay very cold, and since most of
the towers have no grid power, solar energy will make like more comfortable
for them and the people they rescue.
- US Park Service Rangers
ordered two of our Exterior heating panels that are now installed on a
liquid waste dehumidifyer installation near a 10,000 foot trail junction
in Mt. Ranier National Park, Washington. It's likely the
first solar waste dehumidifying installation in active service.
-The US Forest service is our first customer to use four of the Low Profile UltraBlack solar
forced air heaters (shown above) on remote off-grid changing/rest rooms
high in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in the Gunnison National Forest.
The left photo below shows
one of our earlier air heating panels mounted on a remote ski building
in Mammoth Mountain, California. Cold air and wind have only minimal impact
on solar air heating.
A wall mounted 2X4 Exterior heating panel warms the Tamarack ski rental
building in Mammoth Mountain on the left,
and three
connected Low Profile heating panels are roof mounted in the right
photo for a 60+ degree heat gain.
Our fifth generation
Low
Profile solar forced air heating panels, seen on the right, have been replaced by the BISFA heating panels,, and were designed
to be connected in a series to increase incoming fresh air cold air temps by an average of 22-25 degrees
F for each additional panel.
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The first
US ski area installation of a solar forced air heating panel took place
at
the top of 10,400 foot chair lift 14 on the remote lift operator building
at Mammoth
Mtn. See more photos and details of the panel mounting below.
Our solar thermal air
products are among the most efficient, least expensive type of renewable
energy home appliances available today. In fact, they are so efficient,
we've recorded five degree temperature increases in the shade or on overcast
days!
That means that for the solar
energy absorbed, far less energy is lost in the heat conversion, so you'll
spend far less money to enjoy the benefits of the sun.
Even solar water heating
is less efficient (30-40%), more expensive and most systems are more complicated
than our solar air thermal panels. A typical home installation complete
with tanks, heating panels, piping and professional installation can cost
the homeowner $3,000-$5,000, plus upkeep.
So if you're fed up with the
expensive fees of living "on the grid" and are considering clean renewable
energy for quick and cheap air heating, our high quality active solar thermal
air collectors are an excellent way to start enjoying the savings and satisfaction
of preserving the environment without the high initial startup costs. For
absolutely free solar heat, your can order our optional 15 watt Direct DC
solar electric panels or use the included 12 volt power supply to power the fan.
Our fourth generation exterior mount ClearDome
Solar Forced Air Heaters were made to survive nearly any type of weather and temperature extremes, just like the BISFA panels.
(One survived a tornado in the South). Our newest panels are even more durable. Incoming
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These are photos of
our first 2x4 Exterior panel permanent installation at the top of chair
14 ski operator's building at Mammoth Mountain in the High Sierras. Mounted
above it is a 21 watt Unisolar PV electric panel that powers the 12 volt
used to circulate and warm solar heated air through the panel and back
into the upper room of the building where the lift operator works during
daylight hours. The building is uninsulated cinder block and the windows
are only single pane, so it does not provide optimum heating conditions
in the extreme weather.
Since there is no electrical
grid power to this building, the PV panel was necessary for fan power.
On/off operation of heating panel fan is automatic because of the internal
heat absorber thermostat. After the first snow falls, the existing propane
wall heater is turned on to provide early morning and backup heating for
cloudy days when the lifts re-open. On the first full day of operation
after
30+ degree F overnight temperatures, our heating panel warmed the inside
to 68 degrees. The previous day's unheated room temperatures stayed in
the low 50's (about the same as the outdoor temperature) inside before
our heating panel was installed.
It is the first of seven of our solar forced
air heaters that were installed at Mammoth Mountain, nearby Tamarack cross
country ski area (upper photo) and June Mountain ski area. The cost savings
where the panels are mounted is substantial during the winter,
since most daytime solar air heating will offset expensive electric or
gas heating. Even with the extreme weather and high snow packs, Mammoth
averages over 300 sunny days per year, so it's ideal for solar energy usage.
Our 2' x 8' metal exterior
forced air heating panel for larger 500+ square foot rooms is
no longer available (shown above) since being replaced by BISFA panels. As with
all solar products, the more panels you use, the more heat or power you
will generate.
Questions? Email
Deris for more current details about this or any of our other top quality
solar heating and cooling products.
We can
suggest an excellent low noise, ceiling mount bathroom fan for permanent
panel installations. One example is this Panasonic low noise fan avaiable
from many home supply stores or online. Air is pulled from the room
through the square vent opening, and is pushed out the 4" vent on the top
left. Other air flows can be used if rated at 80-125 CFM. For inexpensive
automatic on/off operation of the Indoor/outdoor panel using house current,
add an inexpensive appliance plug-in 
wall
timer to start the fan when the sun hits the panel, and stop the fan when
the sun has left. Wall mounted digital timer/thermostats can also be used
to regulate on/off control.
Home
heating bills can be slashed even when using house current to power the
fan on the 2X4 heater. It costs less than 25 cents per month to operate
six hours every day! Compare that to a standard 800-1000 watt space heater,
which costs about $22-$50 per month for the same usage. In numerous test
comparisons, our 2' X 4' solar space heaters out-performed the typical 1,000
watt electric/fan portable room heaters set on low or medium.
Imagine spending less than one
cent per day to keep your bedroom warm. Our 2x4 exterior panel or a single
Low Profile panel can be indoors used to heat rooms about 150-250 square
feet (8' ceilings), behind to a large sunlit window or sliding glass door,
on RV's, boats or campers, or outdoors for temporary use outside to warm
your hands or face.
Only a very small amount of
heat is absorbed by the glass when positioned inside the widow. Use other
power sources such as PV's or car power for the 12 volt, .6 amp fan for
free solar heating.
By constantly solar heating
a room during the day, little or no conventional heating will be required
for 3-5 hours after sunset, or on cold days, resulting in lower heating
costs with higher room temperatures. Well insulated spaces stay hotter
and retain heat for a longer period of time. Smaller spaces will
heat faster and hotter than larger spaces. None of our heaters will pollute
the environment or your lungs. And they are carefully constructed
of the finest materials, designed to withstand daily use, indoors and outdoors.
All of our solar air heaters
are reasonably priced and can pay for themselves in one to two years with
today's inflated utility costs.
Our solar heat
collectors should be installed by a capable handyman, contractor or professional solar
installer. We provide tips, suggestions and technical support, but because
every installation is different, detailed instructions to install in your
home are not included.
Please visit our Internet
home page at: www.cleardomesolar.com
or call and ask for Deris to get prices or further information about this
or any of our unique solar heating and cooking products. All of our products
are sold on the Internet by using PayPal.com and come with a
one year warranty and 30 day, 100% satisfaction return guarantee.
It's time to start using the
clean power source the utility companies will never be able to control...the
sun.
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