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You are invited to review, with an eye to patent-license or purchase, several profoundly large clean energy technologies, offering many gigatons of greenhouse gas reductions and literally trillions
of dollars of global economic prosperity. We presently have over 150
issued and pending worldwide patents. We assert that the following
technologies set world records in macroscopic clean energy savings -
civilization's foundation of all products and thus, jobs. We speak not
of mere "renewable" or "supplemental energy" bandaids, but profound
globally applicable fundamental scientific energy breakthroughs. They
are not mere "incremental" improvements, but are startling quantum
leaps, typically 10-fold better, leading to global paradigm energy
transitions away from combustion and nuclear energy, and capable of
extending mankind's ascent not just decades, but centuries. The banner
flags above attempt to connote the global applicability of these
American innovations - beginning with:
2013-14 news. Patent pending in 148 countries, "Solar Traps" technology is reported in more detail in dozens of McClatchy American newspapers here, (and more background solar publicity here). Candidly stated, Solar Traps technology requires no expensive mirrors or tracking technology and is many times better than all previously known solar technologies - far superior to PV or CSP solar. It represents a new means to capture and store almost 100% of the available local solar energy per acre at very high temperatures (far in excess of 10000F) and also at over 90% efficiency at such temperature extremes - the combination of which has not been achieved beore. Mastering both high temperatures and high efficiencies at low costs has, until now, been the solar barrier to achieving ultimate and vital goal of super cheap very long term solar energy macro STORAGE. Pinnacle Products has shattered those barriers by 10-fold better than all before. High temperatures have always been a fundamental physics requirement of all efficient thermal engines (Carnot thermodynamics), such as thermoelectric power plant turbines. Higher collection temperatures also dramatically reduce the cost of compactly storing voluminous thermal energy - a second vital solar barrier of 24/7 reliability.
January 2014 super high efficiency solid state thermoelectricity (no turbines) patent has been filed and a new thermodynamics law of physics is presently undergoing final scientific review.
It was suggested above that very high electric power efficiencies are totally governed by employing the highest possible temperature "fuel," including high temperature SOLAR fuel. That remains the 190 year old law of physics. Global steam power plants do indeed demand very high temperatures and pressure steam to efficiently power rotary turbines. The weakness of such prior art steam power generation is not only the need of very high temperatures, but also the gross thermal waste energy after steam exits the turbines and condenses back to liquid. Typically massive amounts of river water is employed to condense the final low vapor pressure steam back to liquid water, so that it can be pumped back to very hot boilers to repeat the generating cycle. Typically, over 60% of conventional power plant input energy (from coal/gas/oil/nuclear/solar) is completely wasted to river heating. Thus, for more than a century, the power industry has sought ingenious means to somehow capture those literally trillions of dollars per year of waste heat. Such a discovery must not only be inexpensive, but must also be practical in all ways - a set of exceptional challenges, so far, un-achieved worldwide. Suddenly, a low-cost and practical proposed waste heat recovery solutions has popped up. This long overdue breakthrough has just been filed in the US Patent Office by Pinnacle Products. We must be candid: This waste heat recovery patent application must be validated by more than one impeccable independent review - which is underway, and is indeed being validated, as we speak. The next step will be prototyping for absolute validation. At this stage, Pinnacle has solicited several PhD and thermal engineering reviews of its breakthrough invention and no fatal flaw has been identified. Moreover, if fully validated, it will revise and repair a 190 year old chasm in the fundamental physics 2nd law of thermodynamics! By that, we mean, over 90% thermal-to-electricity conversion efficiency can be achieved - a goal that Lord Kelvin and James Joule tried to prove but failed to demonstrate between 1824 and 1889. Even today, the 2nd law is criticized and ridiculed for being based on "empirical deductions" and on "negative statements" (like "impossible" and "cannot") where, in scientific circles, a "negative" can not be proven. Only positives can be proven by demonstrations plus flawless theory(ies). Thus, with emphasis, if Pinnacle's thermoelectric generation patent pending invention is fully validated, it will finally repair the 2nd Law and open trillions of dollars of added prosperity. If, on the other hand, for reasons that Pinnacle and reviewers, cannot determine, the thermoelectric invention can "only" achieve a large fraction of waste heat recovery (i.e. not "over 90% recovery"), it is still expected to shatter 190 year old scientific barriers, while not in the slightest way defy the all-powerful 1st Law of thermodynamics. The breakthrough outcome will be fully determined in 2014. This American pending patent will then be filed in many other countries - all aimed at keeping America strong with high international exportation. Thermal waste energy prevention can profoundly alter land, sea and air transportation; power plants, and countless other energy demands. For example, if our thermoelectric breakthrough is successful, imagine battery-less electric cars achieving hundreds of miles per gallon, wherein with just 2 gallons of fuel on board, the combustion heat value of fuels can be directly converted to electricity to power 85% efficient electric cars to achieve hundreds of miles per gallon.
Pinnacle Products is ethically bound under a gentleman's embargo agreement to not publish more of these world record Solar Traps and high efficiency thermoelectricity technologies until McClatchy news breaks the full story, linked above, and of course, until the aforementioned patents are published.
For now, you should know the following background information. Solar energy - freely available to all nations - is, by far, the world's largest energy resource - in fact, 10,000 times greater than all of mankind's present daily energy demands. But, until now, solar technology has never been economically mastered. It's been far too expensive. The "cost of energy" has become the entire global energy barrier. "Energy" per se, is not scarce or getting scarce. It's progressively gotten far too expensive for our $70 trillion global economy to absorb it. The present global high-cost of energy is frequently cited as the root cause of economically failing nations. Thus, by discovering and rapidly implementing a far lower-cost and perfectly clean energy, we can not only preserve the dwindling low-cost carbon combustion resources for posterity, we can also abandon nuclear energy applications as well. These measures allow our treasured carbon reserves to be used and recycled forever for countless better uses instead of burning them. The "Solar Trap & Store" technology briefed here will be expanded after the above-mentioned embargo is lifted. You will learn why the Solar Traps breakthrough is such an ideal companion technology of our other energy-delivery technologies below. For now, you may click the above link to the newspaper release to learn more.
Here's H2OPE,
Pinnacle Products management.
Back to the former website announcements:
1). This royalty-free global warming solution - the only known fail-safe benign planetary cooling proposal powerful enough to overcome both human and earth's monstrously larger 18,000-year natural global warming phenomenon. This invention is considered too important to patent it. It is freely offered for use by anyone. This invention was mathematically modeled by Stanford University super computers and found to be credible. The novel invention can not only correct human greenhouse effects, but also the 12-times-larger and more certain "natural" ice-age oscillations confronting mankind (centuries of rising oceans), while also providing two free side benefits: a) refreshing a large percentage of earth's critical fresh water deficits and b) naturally sequestering gigatons of CO2 into the oceans with the proposed 1% additional cold rainwater (page 5 in the above global warming link). Moreover, Pinnacle's newest Solar Trap collectors can be employed to power the entire global cooling proposed apparatus, even if everything is located on a few hundred remote islands strategically located around the northern hemisphere;
2). A second macroscopic energy technology, "GeoSolar Technology," is a unique patented (in many countries) energy-delivery technology. It employs the world's existing multi-trillion dollar underground potable water infrastructure to effortlessly deliver essentially unlimited ice-cold potable water in steamy summer months to buildings for frigid space cooling or, in frigid winter months - deliver mildly warm potable water to entire communities for ultra low-cost winter space heating. The outstanding novelty of GeoSolar technology is that it does not waste a drop of precious potable water and it requires no plumbing excavation. Another spectacular feature of GeoSolar technology is its ability to deliver essentially unlimited quantities of solar energy collected by the Solar Trapping and inexpensive storage technology described above. As a reminder, once high temperature solar energy is economically mastered, as previously emphasized, such high temperature thermal energy may be easily transformed directly into other useful forms of energy - such as frigid cold energy, which can then be delivered to buildings, at almost no cost, for air conditioning. As such, almost all electricity demands for air conditioning are eliminated. Solar heating and cooling costs can both be dramatically reduced by 10-fold or more. Thus, the marriage of Solar Traps technology and GeoSolar technology can have a profound impact on up to 40% of the world's entire energy demand. No other technology comes close to matching this low-cost, and ultra clean energy - a potential $5 trillion marriage (200 x 1015 BTU annual energy savings)! Pre-warming potable water is easily accomplished by collecting free solar energy to warm potable water stored in ordinary water storage towers and then delivered by the novel GeoSolar technology. Likewise, pre-chilling potable water and storing frigid water as usual in water towers, allows GeoSolar technology to distribute space cooling energy to buildings throughout entire cities if desired, thereby eliminating the massive demand of high-cost summer electrically powered refrigeration cooling. To suggest that "Solar Traps and GeoSolar technologies are a perfect marriage" is a gross understatement;
3). A third "cold energy" Pinnacle Products pending invention also relates to the powerful "GeoSolar" technology invention above. This invention is too new to elaborate publicly. Patent applications have not yet been filed. Thus, some cryptic language is employed here. However, this "cold energy" invention involves a radically new means to extremely economically extract the phenomenally large cold energy stored in deep ocean/lake bodies of water, so that it can be employed even hundreds of miles away onshore by the above GeoSolar energy-distribution invention. All ocean water deeper than about 3000 feet is nearly ice-cold (4oC or lower). Such a huge cold thermal reservoir (about 250 million cubic miles) is an obvious resource for free summer space-conditioning if only a means to get the cold energy to shore and to deliver it to all buildings were known. GeoSolar potable water is the means to deliver it to buildings, but a means to capture deep cold energy was, until now, the gross economic barrier. The present invention has finally broken the economic barrier by a factor of about 100-fold lower cost. This invention can now convey deep "cold energy," without the use of long pipes, even hundreds of miles to inland cities at a typical cost of about 15 cents per day of residential space cooling (about 390,000 BTUs/day). Thus, southern and especially tropical climates (where space-cooling is the largest energy demand) can now tap the free cold energy of our frigid oceans to create 10-fold lower cost space-cooling. That, in turn, dramatically slashes local electric power generation by about 1kw (~24 kwhrs/day) per residence, which represents a profound electric power reduction, especially critical in energy-poor nations and high-priced island electricity. As sometimes occurs with new breakthroughs like this, other benefits become apparent. In this case, record-low-cost desalination is the benefit. Not only can extremely low-cost space-cooling be provided, but copious desalinated ocean water is a free byproduct of harvesting the deep cold energy. Thus, super low-cost and very clean space-cooling plus copious fresh water are the results of applying GeoSolar Technology to this new breakthrough invention which harvests the nearly unlimited resources of deep oceans (with no known oceanic environmental impacts). Even if all of humanity used deep oceans for space cooling, the ocean temperature would not change by even 0.0001 oC;
4). The above mentioned "Solar Traps" breakthrough energy technology can greatly enhance the above GeoSolar Technology. Solar Trapping provides a dramatically lower-cost means to optically concentrate and store macro quantities of very high temperature solar energy, the thermal energy of which can be delivered to homes and buildings at almost no cost with the above GeoSolar potable water energy-delivery technology. Prior arts to collect concentrated solar power with mirrors have made solar power several times more expensive than combustion energy. This new 10-times better optical collection method is physically smaller and much lower-cost and also produces much higher operating temperatures with exceptionally low thermal losses. All of that opens opportunities to store gargantuan quantities of super-high temperature thermal energy for many weeks of cloudy days and nights. The combined "solar block" invention plus the GeoSolar delivery invention can be employed in northern climates to overcome the exceptionally high costs of space-heating - thereby saving as much as thousands of dollars per home per winter. The same high temperature Solar Trap invention can also be employed to efficiently generate reliable electricity without need of conventional combustion or nuclear power plants as backup power systems. Many people are referring to "solar traps" as the gateway to mankind's multi-century "Solar Age" as we exit the "Combustion Age" and exhaust our nuclear fuels. Buttressing the "Solar Age" label is the fact that the solar flux befalling earth is 10,000 times greater than mankind's total energy consumption - sufficient to meet human energy needs for hundreds of years. If humanity does, in fact, make a full Solar Age transition to very cheap solar energy (thermal or electricity), only your imagination limits visions of clean air, abundant water, food, and industrial applications. Even super-clean, 85%-efficient electric cars are becoming popular because 10 times better automobile storage batteries are being produced. Thus, say goodbye to 20% efficient combustion engines.
5). This 5th deceptively simple low-cost infrared energy conservation invention is just one more of an arsenal of creative efforts at Pinnacle Products to dramatically slash man's energy consumption. This novel invention illustrates how macro space heating energy consumption can be slashed in a most unexpected way. This invention, called "Beamers," is a new optical means to flood a human body with a safe and warming mere 50 watt beam of infrared light about 10-20 times more efficiently than prior art 1500W infrared heaters, such as old parabolic reflector heaters or flood radiant heaters. By studying human physiology in cool ambient air plus indoor space-heating physics, "chilly" has been scientifically re-defined and the cost of human winter comfort-heating has led to an ability to greatly reduce indoor air temperatures without feeling "chilly". Very low cost Beamers demand exceptionally low input power (only 2-3 cents per month per person) and can be installed in multiple indoor or outdoor locations by novices within just seconds, and can reduce winter space-heating bills by as much as 50%. Beamers can even be combined with the above advanced GeoSolar space-heating technology to further reduce winter heating costs by about 50% below the already very low winter heating energy consumption of GeoSolar technology. Beamers take the concept of space-heating physics to the limit by collapsing "zone heating" from house-size heating to below room-size zone heating, and ultimately, to the mere size of heating just one human body. House and room thermostats can be dramatically lowered by 10s of degrees F in comfort without occupants having to wear outdoor winter clothing. Thus, it is surprising to see that it is still possible for inexpensive products, such as low powered Beamers, to have a profound impact on reducing tens of thousands of watts in space heating power - a simple way to reduce greenhouse gases from hundreds of millions of homes by gigatons while saving billions of energy dollars.
2013-14 news. Patent pending in 148 countries, "Solar Traps" technology is reported in more detail in dozens of McClatchy American newspapers here, (and more background solar publicity here). Candidly stated, Solar Traps technology requires no expensive mirrors or tracking technology and is many times better than all previously known solar technologies - far superior to PV or CSP solar. It represents a new means to capture and store almost 100% of the available local solar energy per acre at very high temperatures (far in excess of 10000F) and also at over 90% efficiency at such temperature extremes - the combination of which has not been achieved beore. Mastering both high temperatures and high efficiencies at low costs has, until now, been the solar barrier to achieving ultimate and vital goal of super cheap very long term solar energy macro STORAGE. Pinnacle Products has shattered those barriers by 10-fold better than all before. High temperatures have always been a fundamental physics requirement of all efficient thermal engines (Carnot thermodynamics), such as thermoelectric power plant turbines. Higher collection temperatures also dramatically reduce the cost of compactly storing voluminous thermal energy - a second vital solar barrier of 24/7 reliability.
January 2014 super high efficiency solid state thermoelectricity (no turbines) patent has been filed and a new thermodynamics law of physics is presently undergoing final scientific review.
It was suggested above that very high electric power efficiencies are totally governed by employing the highest possible temperature "fuel," including high temperature SOLAR fuel. That remains the 190 year old law of physics. Global steam power plants do indeed demand very high temperatures and pressure steam to efficiently power rotary turbines. The weakness of such prior art steam power generation is not only the need of very high temperatures, but also the gross thermal waste energy after steam exits the turbines and condenses back to liquid. Typically massive amounts of river water is employed to condense the final low vapor pressure steam back to liquid water, so that it can be pumped back to very hot boilers to repeat the generating cycle. Typically, over 60% of conventional power plant input energy (from coal/gas/oil/nuclear/solar) is completely wasted to river heating. Thus, for more than a century, the power industry has sought ingenious means to somehow capture those literally trillions of dollars per year of waste heat. Such a discovery must not only be inexpensive, but must also be practical in all ways - a set of exceptional challenges, so far, un-achieved worldwide. Suddenly, a low-cost and practical proposed waste heat recovery solutions has popped up. This long overdue breakthrough has just been filed in the US Patent Office by Pinnacle Products. We must be candid: This waste heat recovery patent application must be validated by more than one impeccable independent review - which is underway, and is indeed being validated, as we speak. The next step will be prototyping for absolute validation. At this stage, Pinnacle has solicited several PhD and thermal engineering reviews of its breakthrough invention and no fatal flaw has been identified. Moreover, if fully validated, it will revise and repair a 190 year old chasm in the fundamental physics 2nd law of thermodynamics! By that, we mean, over 90% thermal-to-electricity conversion efficiency can be achieved - a goal that Lord Kelvin and James Joule tried to prove but failed to demonstrate between 1824 and 1889. Even today, the 2nd law is criticized and ridiculed for being based on "empirical deductions" and on "negative statements" (like "impossible" and "cannot") where, in scientific circles, a "negative" can not be proven. Only positives can be proven by demonstrations plus flawless theory(ies). Thus, with emphasis, if Pinnacle's thermoelectric generation patent pending invention is fully validated, it will finally repair the 2nd Law and open trillions of dollars of added prosperity. If, on the other hand, for reasons that Pinnacle and reviewers, cannot determine, the thermoelectric invention can "only" achieve a large fraction of waste heat recovery (i.e. not "over 90% recovery"), it is still expected to shatter 190 year old scientific barriers, while not in the slightest way defy the all-powerful 1st Law of thermodynamics. The breakthrough outcome will be fully determined in 2014. This American pending patent will then be filed in many other countries - all aimed at keeping America strong with high international exportation. Thermal waste energy prevention can profoundly alter land, sea and air transportation; power plants, and countless other energy demands. For example, if our thermoelectric breakthrough is successful, imagine battery-less electric cars achieving hundreds of miles per gallon, wherein with just 2 gallons of fuel on board, the combustion heat value of fuels can be directly converted to electricity to power 85% efficient electric cars to achieve hundreds of miles per gallon.
Pinnacle Products is ethically bound under a gentleman's embargo agreement to not publish more of these world record Solar Traps and high efficiency thermoelectricity technologies until McClatchy news breaks the full story, linked above, and of course, until the aforementioned patents are published.
For now, you should know the following background information. Solar energy - freely available to all nations - is, by far, the world's largest energy resource - in fact, 10,000 times greater than all of mankind's present daily energy demands. But, until now, solar technology has never been economically mastered. It's been far too expensive. The "cost of energy" has become the entire global energy barrier. "Energy" per se, is not scarce or getting scarce. It's progressively gotten far too expensive for our $70 trillion global economy to absorb it. The present global high-cost of energy is frequently cited as the root cause of economically failing nations. Thus, by discovering and rapidly implementing a far lower-cost and perfectly clean energy, we can not only preserve the dwindling low-cost carbon combustion resources for posterity, we can also abandon nuclear energy applications as well. These measures allow our treasured carbon reserves to be used and recycled forever for countless better uses instead of burning them. The "Solar Trap & Store" technology briefed here will be expanded after the above-mentioned embargo is lifted. You will learn why the Solar Traps breakthrough is such an ideal companion technology of our other energy-delivery technologies below. For now, you may click the above link to the newspaper release to learn more.
Here's H2OPE,
Pinnacle Products management.
Back to the former website announcements:
1). This royalty-free global warming solution - the only known fail-safe benign planetary cooling proposal powerful enough to overcome both human and earth's monstrously larger 18,000-year natural global warming phenomenon. This invention is considered too important to patent it. It is freely offered for use by anyone. This invention was mathematically modeled by Stanford University super computers and found to be credible. The novel invention can not only correct human greenhouse effects, but also the 12-times-larger and more certain "natural" ice-age oscillations confronting mankind (centuries of rising oceans), while also providing two free side benefits: a) refreshing a large percentage of earth's critical fresh water deficits and b) naturally sequestering gigatons of CO2 into the oceans with the proposed 1% additional cold rainwater (page 5 in the above global warming link). Moreover, Pinnacle's newest Solar Trap collectors can be employed to power the entire global cooling proposed apparatus, even if everything is located on a few hundred remote islands strategically located around the northern hemisphere;
2). A second macroscopic energy technology, "GeoSolar Technology," is a unique patented (in many countries) energy-delivery technology. It employs the world's existing multi-trillion dollar underground potable water infrastructure to effortlessly deliver essentially unlimited ice-cold potable water in steamy summer months to buildings for frigid space cooling or, in frigid winter months - deliver mildly warm potable water to entire communities for ultra low-cost winter space heating. The outstanding novelty of GeoSolar technology is that it does not waste a drop of precious potable water and it requires no plumbing excavation. Another spectacular feature of GeoSolar technology is its ability to deliver essentially unlimited quantities of solar energy collected by the Solar Trapping and inexpensive storage technology described above. As a reminder, once high temperature solar energy is economically mastered, as previously emphasized, such high temperature thermal energy may be easily transformed directly into other useful forms of energy - such as frigid cold energy, which can then be delivered to buildings, at almost no cost, for air conditioning. As such, almost all electricity demands for air conditioning are eliminated. Solar heating and cooling costs can both be dramatically reduced by 10-fold or more. Thus, the marriage of Solar Traps technology and GeoSolar technology can have a profound impact on up to 40% of the world's entire energy demand. No other technology comes close to matching this low-cost, and ultra clean energy - a potential $5 trillion marriage (200 x 1015 BTU annual energy savings)! Pre-warming potable water is easily accomplished by collecting free solar energy to warm potable water stored in ordinary water storage towers and then delivered by the novel GeoSolar technology. Likewise, pre-chilling potable water and storing frigid water as usual in water towers, allows GeoSolar technology to distribute space cooling energy to buildings throughout entire cities if desired, thereby eliminating the massive demand of high-cost summer electrically powered refrigeration cooling. To suggest that "Solar Traps and GeoSolar technologies are a perfect marriage" is a gross understatement;
3). A third "cold energy" Pinnacle Products pending invention also relates to the powerful "GeoSolar" technology invention above. This invention is too new to elaborate publicly. Patent applications have not yet been filed. Thus, some cryptic language is employed here. However, this "cold energy" invention involves a radically new means to extremely economically extract the phenomenally large cold energy stored in deep ocean/lake bodies of water, so that it can be employed even hundreds of miles away onshore by the above GeoSolar energy-distribution invention. All ocean water deeper than about 3000 feet is nearly ice-cold (4oC or lower). Such a huge cold thermal reservoir (about 250 million cubic miles) is an obvious resource for free summer space-conditioning if only a means to get the cold energy to shore and to deliver it to all buildings were known. GeoSolar potable water is the means to deliver it to buildings, but a means to capture deep cold energy was, until now, the gross economic barrier. The present invention has finally broken the economic barrier by a factor of about 100-fold lower cost. This invention can now convey deep "cold energy," without the use of long pipes, even hundreds of miles to inland cities at a typical cost of about 15 cents per day of residential space cooling (about 390,000 BTUs/day). Thus, southern and especially tropical climates (where space-cooling is the largest energy demand) can now tap the free cold energy of our frigid oceans to create 10-fold lower cost space-cooling. That, in turn, dramatically slashes local electric power generation by about 1kw (~24 kwhrs/day) per residence, which represents a profound electric power reduction, especially critical in energy-poor nations and high-priced island electricity. As sometimes occurs with new breakthroughs like this, other benefits become apparent. In this case, record-low-cost desalination is the benefit. Not only can extremely low-cost space-cooling be provided, but copious desalinated ocean water is a free byproduct of harvesting the deep cold energy. Thus, super low-cost and very clean space-cooling plus copious fresh water are the results of applying GeoSolar Technology to this new breakthrough invention which harvests the nearly unlimited resources of deep oceans (with no known oceanic environmental impacts). Even if all of humanity used deep oceans for space cooling, the ocean temperature would not change by even 0.0001 oC;
4). The above mentioned "Solar Traps" breakthrough energy technology can greatly enhance the above GeoSolar Technology. Solar Trapping provides a dramatically lower-cost means to optically concentrate and store macro quantities of very high temperature solar energy, the thermal energy of which can be delivered to homes and buildings at almost no cost with the above GeoSolar potable water energy-delivery technology. Prior arts to collect concentrated solar power with mirrors have made solar power several times more expensive than combustion energy. This new 10-times better optical collection method is physically smaller and much lower-cost and also produces much higher operating temperatures with exceptionally low thermal losses. All of that opens opportunities to store gargantuan quantities of super-high temperature thermal energy for many weeks of cloudy days and nights. The combined "solar block" invention plus the GeoSolar delivery invention can be employed in northern climates to overcome the exceptionally high costs of space-heating - thereby saving as much as thousands of dollars per home per winter. The same high temperature Solar Trap invention can also be employed to efficiently generate reliable electricity without need of conventional combustion or nuclear power plants as backup power systems. Many people are referring to "solar traps" as the gateway to mankind's multi-century "Solar Age" as we exit the "Combustion Age" and exhaust our nuclear fuels. Buttressing the "Solar Age" label is the fact that the solar flux befalling earth is 10,000 times greater than mankind's total energy consumption - sufficient to meet human energy needs for hundreds of years. If humanity does, in fact, make a full Solar Age transition to very cheap solar energy (thermal or electricity), only your imagination limits visions of clean air, abundant water, food, and industrial applications. Even super-clean, 85%-efficient electric cars are becoming popular because 10 times better automobile storage batteries are being produced. Thus, say goodbye to 20% efficient combustion engines.
5). This 5th deceptively simple low-cost infrared energy conservation invention is just one more of an arsenal of creative efforts at Pinnacle Products to dramatically slash man's energy consumption. This novel invention illustrates how macro space heating energy consumption can be slashed in a most unexpected way. This invention, called "Beamers," is a new optical means to flood a human body with a safe and warming mere 50 watt beam of infrared light about 10-20 times more efficiently than prior art 1500W infrared heaters, such as old parabolic reflector heaters or flood radiant heaters. By studying human physiology in cool ambient air plus indoor space-heating physics, "chilly" has been scientifically re-defined and the cost of human winter comfort-heating has led to an ability to greatly reduce indoor air temperatures without feeling "chilly". Very low cost Beamers demand exceptionally low input power (only 2-3 cents per month per person) and can be installed in multiple indoor or outdoor locations by novices within just seconds, and can reduce winter space-heating bills by as much as 50%. Beamers can even be combined with the above advanced GeoSolar space-heating technology to further reduce winter heating costs by about 50% below the already very low winter heating energy consumption of GeoSolar technology. Beamers take the concept of space-heating physics to the limit by collapsing "zone heating" from house-size heating to below room-size zone heating, and ultimately, to the mere size of heating just one human body. House and room thermostats can be dramatically lowered by 10s of degrees F in comfort without occupants having to wear outdoor winter clothing. Thus, it is surprising to see that it is still possible for inexpensive products, such as low powered Beamers, to have a profound impact on reducing tens of thousands of watts in space heating power - a simple way to reduce greenhouse gases from hundreds of millions of homes by gigatons while saving billions of energy dollars.
Global Energy Facts
If you know a great deal about all of the many kinds of known global energy reserves -
the many kinds of carbon, various forms of nuclear, solar, kinetic energies, the molten
core thermal, and others - then you should also be worried, not for your grandchildren
but for your children. Energy, the very foundation of civilization, is nowhere near as
abundant as almost everyone thinks. Meticulous global surveys show that our
status quo energy days are ending. Low-cost energy sources are already over half
depleted and are vanishing at a pace of 5.2 x 1017 BTUs per year (equal to 17,000 billion watts 24/365) - with consumption still increasing. Rising energy prices threaten global economic failure. The rub is not 6-10 decades away. The economic brick wall is likely less than 3 decades away. New cheap and clean energy sources, far larger than anything in history, must be found.
Fortunately, there really IS "H2OPE". The laws of physics are on our side. The
innovative examples above illustrate that America does possess the talents,
the resources, and the creative spirit to avert global catastrophes. Complacency is not an option. Surely, we have many visionary leaders who crave a return to long term
prosperity, who see the opportunities to export macro energy products to other
nations, and who want to employ millions of Americans.
GeoSolar Technology represents a broad and powerful global opportunity to
usher in much higher prosperity by diverting trillions of dollars of current energy
expenditures to better uses. It is large enough to help U.S. potable water companies
pay the estimated $540 billion aging pipe-repair or face monstrous deficit funding.
Likewise, GeoSolar technology can dramatically slash electric power generation but,
without financially endangering electric utilities. Many incorrectly argue that if electric
demand is catastrophically reduced, utilities could go bankrupt. Not true. Utilities are
financially protected under national "Stranded Cost" laws even if their conventional fuel consumption drops to near zero. Ratepayers are required to still pay a small amount to avert financial ruination of utility companies. Ratepayers can still be the big beneficiaries. GeoSolar Technology energy savings posses a much larger continuous economic stimulus than ever contemplated by federal or state governments. GeoSolar offers stunning positive global impacts .
Pinnacle Products is but one of several macroscopic American innovators. Time
is not on our side and Mother Nature is quite unforgiving. When our well defined
conventional energy resources run low, it's literally decades too late! New transitional innovations take lots of time to mature. We at Pinnacle assert that no larger energy conservation technologies exist. Pinnacle's GeoSolar and Solar Traps technologies can impact as much as 92% of mankind's energy budget - enough time to propel mankind for centuries toward even higher H2OPES and aspirations. But one thing seems indisputable. Enormous clean energy is the enabler.
Mankind presently spends almost $10 trillion (13%) of our $70 trillion global annual economy directly on energy. However, the cost of raw energy drives the final prices of the world's products up by roughly 40-50%. Hypothetically, if energy costs were free, the cost of living could fall by about 50% (a whopping $35 trillion). Conversely, as the low-cost energy reserves dwindle (replaced by high priced energy), the economic impacts can decimate prosperity. A transition to a "Solar Age" will surely take several decades. Why wait even one year?
Energy consumption has evolved from a mere curiosity in ancient times, to the
lifeblood of civilization and it now governs the destiny and the ascent of man.
Macro conservation - no simple matter - is the first short term line of defense against
high-cost energy. But a long term survival strategy requires an entirely new
source of energy many times larger than the last few centuries of carbon
reserves. The alternatives reduce to one. It's solar energy.
We anxiously invite courageous patent licensees to
propel the ascent of man and save the environment.
If you know a great deal about all of the many kinds of known global energy reserves -
the many kinds of carbon, various forms of nuclear, solar, kinetic energies, the molten
core thermal, and others - then you should also be worried, not for your grandchildren
but for your children. Energy, the very foundation of civilization, is nowhere near as
abundant as almost everyone thinks. Meticulous global surveys show that our
status quo energy days are ending. Low-cost energy sources are already over half
depleted and are vanishing at a pace of 5.2 x 1017 BTUs per year (equal to 17,000 billion watts 24/365) - with consumption still increasing. Rising energy prices threaten global economic failure. The rub is not 6-10 decades away. The economic brick wall is likely less than 3 decades away. New cheap and clean energy sources, far larger than anything in history, must be found.
Fortunately, there really IS "H2OPE". The laws of physics are on our side. The
innovative examples above illustrate that America does possess the talents,
the resources, and the creative spirit to avert global catastrophes. Complacency is not an option. Surely, we have many visionary leaders who crave a return to long term
prosperity, who see the opportunities to export macro energy products to other
nations, and who want to employ millions of Americans.
GeoSolar Technology represents a broad and powerful global opportunity to
usher in much higher prosperity by diverting trillions of dollars of current energy
expenditures to better uses. It is large enough to help U.S. potable water companies
pay the estimated $540 billion aging pipe-repair or face monstrous deficit funding.
Likewise, GeoSolar technology can dramatically slash electric power generation but,
without financially endangering electric utilities. Many incorrectly argue that if electric
demand is catastrophically reduced, utilities could go bankrupt. Not true. Utilities are
financially protected under national "Stranded Cost" laws even if their conventional fuel consumption drops to near zero. Ratepayers are required to still pay a small amount to avert financial ruination of utility companies. Ratepayers can still be the big beneficiaries. GeoSolar Technology energy savings posses a much larger continuous economic stimulus than ever contemplated by federal or state governments. GeoSolar offers stunning positive global impacts .
Pinnacle Products is but one of several macroscopic American innovators. Time
is not on our side and Mother Nature is quite unforgiving. When our well defined
conventional energy resources run low, it's literally decades too late! New transitional innovations take lots of time to mature. We at Pinnacle assert that no larger energy conservation technologies exist. Pinnacle's GeoSolar and Solar Traps technologies can impact as much as 92% of mankind's energy budget - enough time to propel mankind for centuries toward even higher H2OPES and aspirations. But one thing seems indisputable. Enormous clean energy is the enabler.
Mankind presently spends almost $10 trillion (13%) of our $70 trillion global annual economy directly on energy. However, the cost of raw energy drives the final prices of the world's products up by roughly 40-50%. Hypothetically, if energy costs were free, the cost of living could fall by about 50% (a whopping $35 trillion). Conversely, as the low-cost energy reserves dwindle (replaced by high priced energy), the economic impacts can decimate prosperity. A transition to a "Solar Age" will surely take several decades. Why wait even one year?
Energy consumption has evolved from a mere curiosity in ancient times, to the
lifeblood of civilization and it now governs the destiny and the ascent of man.
Macro conservation - no simple matter - is the first short term line of defense against
high-cost energy. But a long term survival strategy requires an entirely new
source of energy many times larger than the last few centuries of carbon
reserves. The alternatives reduce to one. It's solar energy.
We anxiously invite courageous patent licensees to
propel the ascent of man and save the environment.
Factoid #1. .From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: ..."In particular, U.S. buildings account for about 40 percent of total U.S. energy consumption, including 72 percent of electricity generation. If current trends continue, by 2025, buildings worldwide will be the largest consumer of global energy, consuming as much energy as the transportation and industry sectors combined." And WINTER HEATING overwhelms all other building energy consumption.
Factoid #2: The ultra low cost "Beamer technology" below offers the possibility to decrease global greenhouse gas emissions by more than one gigaton - the lowest cost global greenhouse gas reduction initiative known. The "ACES" act on CO2 Cap & Trade has left Committee, headed for passage by the House and Senate in 2009 - a potential lucrative means for Beamers to generate very large greenhouse gas offset credits to large greenhouse gas emitters. The Beamer technology, discussed below, can be lucratively applied to European Cap & Trade exchanges right now and it also appears to be a high profit, ideal "Program Related Investment" (PRI) opportunity for large non-profit foundations.
What's a BEAMER?
This 20-fold quantum technological breakthrough achieving ~90% infrared radiant efficiency offers the world's least expensive means to slash winter space heating costs by 33% in frigid locations, to as high as 90% in other geographical regions, and about 50% in average America, and is therefore, by far, the lowest cost and most cost effective means to cut U.S. greenhouse emissions by hundreds of megatons. This is NOT another common extremely inefficient "space heater". It is a totally new incandescent technology.This extremely efficient long-distance infrared beaming technology applies to HOMES, RETAIL STORES, CROWED CLASSROOMS, THEATERS, LARGE INDOOR MALLS, WAREHOUSES, OFFICES, and even INDOOR/OUTDOOR STADIUMS. It is patent pending worldwide and will soon be published here. GERMAN & FRENCH PATENTS plus a partnership ARE FOR SALE (below).
And yet. about 100 million old style super-low efficiency radiant space heaters and infrared comfort heaters similar to the one below are used worldwide simply because they really do work by warming only one person instead of entire buildings. However, operating more than one old style radiant heater per home is prohibitively expensive and represent significant fire hazards.
These old radiant heaters really do offer significant winter-heating savings. But, until NOW, they've all been huge energy guzzlers and extremely energy inefficient - typically less than 5% of 1000-1500 input watts is actually received by people at up to ~6 feet. The rest becomes simple electrically heated expensive hot air. Pinnacle's Beamer breakthrough in infrared technology now brings about greater than 13 times higher energy efficiency and at NEAR ZERO DOLLARS NET COST OF ELECTRICITY! These low powered beamers allow thermostats to be turned down, which causes the central heating furnaces to be on less and consume much less electricity. Thus, the actual small power input to Beamers is completely offset by lower furnace electrical consumption. Beamers bill at no net electric consumption.
The profound winter heating energy saving benefits of the following unique "Beamer" radiant heating technologies are better-understood by reviewing the human physiological explanations on the home page. This unique winter heating breakthrough stems from one major discovery - the revolutionary ability to efficiently beam infrared radiant power very long distances through air - across rooms, from retail store ceilings to isles, and even across outdoor sports stadiums to completely benignly warm people, not objects. Radiant heated people cannot detect when indoor winter thermostats have been turned down by 12 to 20 degrees. Turning thermostats down that much can save 30% to over 90% of winter heating costs while still providing complete human comfort. This is a truly unique and remarkably inexpensive remedy for record high energy savings.
It might surprise many that some heating is required about 7 months of each year, with the exception of Florida - 3 months per year. The outdoor winter temperature in northern states averages about 30oF during a 120-day winter period; middle states average 40oF, and; southern states average about 50oF over the 120-day winter heating period. From that, it is clear that northern homes must ADD about 40 degrees of heat to be comfortable, middle states must ADD 30oF to be comfortable, and southern states central heating systems must ADD about 20oF to achieve comfort. So much heat is very expensive, amounting to thousands of dollars per year - by far, the largest home energy expense, far above cooling and lighting combined.
Thus, every 1oF reduction in thermostat central heating can save 2.5%, 3.3% or, 5% of winter heating costs, depending on northern or southern locations. A 12oF thermostat reduction leads to a 30% northern winter heating bill reduction; a 40% savings in middle states, and; a 60% winter savings in southern states. But, slightly more intense infrared radiant Beamers (which allows a 20oF thermostat reduction - with Beamers set on "High"), can reduce northern heating energy by 50%; 66% in middle states, and; over 90% in southern states. In other words, Beamers will conserve about the same amount of energy, in absolute dollars, in all states. Beamers in southern states save a much higher percentage of a smaller heating expense, and northern state Beamers save a smaller percent of a much larger heating expense.
In all cases, very low cost residential infrared radiant heating devices can produce enormous energy savings by consuming as little as 65 watts per person (but near ZERO net electricity cost per month because central heating systems are OFF longer each month) - for a annual heating energy savings, averaging about $600 to $1200 (depending on size of the house). Such beamed radiant heating offers such impressive energy savings that a "Beamered house" can instantly revalue homes about 20 times higher than the savings (roughly $12,000-$24,000 per home, depending on the home size). Moreover, it's such a simple and inexpensive home-retrofit that a credit card purchase of one Beamer can pay for itself in energy savings before the credit card bill is due (30 days). The word "retrofit" means "one screwdriver for 2 minutes". The energy savings during just one winter, can offset the modest cost to upgrade an entire house with Beamers in many rooms. The instant increase in home value alone is a free bonus on top of real cash savings (plus large State and federal energy conservation tax benefits too). Average heating expenses in each state from Maine to Florida are listed here. But please understand that these tabulated average heating costs include small 500 sq feet apartments and larger than 2500 sq feet houses. The actual average home winter heating expenses for 2000 sq ft homes are at least 50% higher than the reported averages (of homes + apartments).
Large retail stores can enjoy massive winter heating cost savings similar to homeowners, but with comparatively higher real estate valuations. For example, a 100,000 square foot retail store is approximately 67 times larger than an average residential home and demands about 67 times higher winter heating energy. But if these nearly 100% efficient radiant Beamers are attached to ceilings and are beamed to bathe people in the shopping isles from their front and back sides (e.g. at ~60 degree angles), people would not even know, and cannot detect, that the store thermostats were turned down 12-20 degrees. People would literally feel like they were bathed in completely natural room temperature infra radiant heat. Artificial radiant heat produces very surprising, all-natural physiological effects. But retail store heating bills can be slashed by an amazing 30% to over 90% (depending on northern or southern locations... average = 60%) - thereby, saving many tens to even hundreds of thousands of dollars in heating bills each year. And, similar to home applications, the electricity consumed by the Beamers themselves is completely offset by the reduced "on-time" of central heating plants. The NET electricity consumed by high-efficiency Beamers is essentially ZERO. Such impressive energy savings over the life of a mortgage, in turn, instantly revalues commercial buildings by hundreds of thousands to even millions of dollars. All of this is possible because of one pivotal innovation - the super efficient infrared radiant beaming technology invented by Pinnacle Products - the unique ability to beam enormous, totally benign, infrared energy over very long distances - not possible by any prior technology. All cost-ineffective prior art infrared technology is just a few percent efficient and none can efficiently project radiant heat more than a few feet. Pinnacle's breakthrough long distance Beamers can transmit warming radiant energy hundreds of feet, with no known limit - even across football stadiums. ALL other radiant heating technologies lose radiant power, non linearly with distance, but as the distance squared ! (That prior technology defect applies to all industrial "tubular infrared ceiling fixtures" which only "claim" efficient beaming. Even cylinder heating elements with parabolic reflectors extinguish as 1/d2).
Please note why the above illustration of prior art ceiling infrared heating is so deceptive and extremely inefficient, and why 95% of the input power ultimately ends as simple air-heating - a very expensive form of winter electric heating. This popular illustration is promoted by all prior art manufacturers but what is NOT shown is the vast bulk of the infrared energy which does NOT radiate perpendicular from the center radiant (pipe) source. Infrared light actually radiates from every microscopic point along the entire surface of the radiator pipe in tiny 180 degree hemispheres, NOT perpendicular as erroneously illustrated! It is all this non-perpendicular (into and out of the page) radiated energy which is not collimated by the deceptive arrows illustration. The vast majority of radiant energy, in truth, scatters in useless directions. In the simplest terms of optics, "line sources" absolutely do not work as depicted by others above. The over-simplified drawing also does not show the enormous plume of hot air generated by such large surface pipe radiators. These are the real reasons why all prior art infrared heaters are horribly inefficient. Pinnacle's Beamers are 13-20 times (or more) efficient and are the ONLY infrared generators which can project large infrared power over long distances in retail stores, warehouses, and many other applications.
Special Beamer applications in
classrooms and crowded areas
Classrooms filled with many people might seem inappropriate for many Beamers. After all, each person requires about 100 watts of supplemental radiant heating and a classroom with, for example, 33 students, at first glance, would appear to demand up to 3300 watts of electrical power (11,270 BTU/hr) in cold northern climates. After generating and bathing people in comfortable radiant Beamer-heat, 100% of the input power eventually heats the air - an apparent expensive proposition, as previously discussed. It's one thing to provide a mere 100 watts of warmed air in one room with one person (only 1000 BTUs/hr), but a crowd in one room is another matter. However, something pleasantly unexpected arises in such a crowded Beamer-application. The end-product of 3300 watts of Beamer radiation (after warming people), is warm air. The resulting warm air allows thermostats to be lowered even below the previously recommended "52oF" residential settings. The addition of about 3300 watts of expensive electricity (11,270 BTUs) allows thermostats to be reduced far below 52oF - at about 42oF or less! Here's why: In this classroom example, we are assuming 33 students present - each radiating their own 100 watts of heat (essential to all metabolism). That alone is equal to 3300 watts of body heat supplied to the classroom. If an additional 3300 watts of infrared radiant heat is added (total = 6600 watts or, 22,540 BTUs/hr) to a typical 1000 square foot classroom, that's more than enough total heating to maintain the room above 52oF even in cold northern climates. Thus, the supplemental radiant Beamers can be set on "low power" while still maintaining human comfort at thermostat settings of about 42oF. The central heating system would switch itself on very seldom with Beamer supplemental heat. This surprising classroom Beamer effect is possible because each Beamer consumes so little input power per person. High powered (inefficient) prior art radiant heaters would demand extremely high power to provide very little radiant heat. Thus, prior art heaters would only serve to electrically heat the entire classroom to a comfortable 72oF - a prohibitively expensive prior art heating system.classrooms and crowded areas
The same classroom radiant heating concept applies to crowded movie theaters, convention centers, shopping centers, retail stores, and the like. Beamers have wide indoor and outdoor applications because they can uniquely beam intense radiant heat over very long distances from ceilings. And Beamers consume zero power unless people are present. Thus, most of time, (nights, weekends, etc), such very low thermostat settings demand very little space-heating, and Beamers switch on to rapidly raise the effective temperature by 12-20oF only when people arrive.
But if all the above is only "impressive", then you might be pleased to learn how eager the federal government is to offer you even more impressive Tax deductions of up to $1.80 per square foot for upgrading to conserve heating energy in commercial buildings. These tax benefits offer incentives to almost pay for entire Beamer system installations. Moreover, most States offer additional generous energy-conservation tax incentives. All this, while dramatically adding real estate value, plus the huge perpetual cash savings, dropping straight to the bottom line. Super low-cost commercial infrared opportunities are endless. That's why Pinnacle emphasizes that there are no known lower cost methods capable of such macro energy savings or any simpler way to dramatically increase the real estate value of buildings.
Likewise, the same technology can be extended to heretofore unimaginable applications such as huge enclosed or even outdoor winter stadiums, where spectators can be bathed in warming infrared heat transmitted to people from high up on the light poles on the opposite side of the stadium. Not only can the bitter cold of outdoor winter stadiums be mitigated significantly by 10-20oF, stadium managers can count on higher attendance and higher winter revenues. Of course, fully enclosed stadiums can benefit by turning down the thermostats to save the enormous winter heating costs. Unlike all prior art radiant heating, Pinnacle's radiant heaters can be concentrated on the spectators, not 95% broadcast into space. The energy consumption to warm just one $100 winter spectator seat can cost only a few cents per game. Therefore, the return on investment of Pinnacle's radiant heaters can be measured in just hours or days, not years.
Similar applications of super efficient infrared beamers abound. Spring and fall residential patios and restaurant patios can be made comfortable. Open air warehouses, construction sites, workshops, and other outdoor activities can all be comfortably warmed many times less expensively and safer than any other known prior technology. And it must be emphasized that so little hot air is generated by Pinnacle's super efficient 'beamers' that they can be safely mounted on walls and ceilings, far away from underfoot and with essentially no fire hazards. Firefighters know all too well how important that is.
There are over 100 million residential Beamer applications in just the USA. Even more than one Beamer in each room can be easily justified because of their low purchase cost (under $100) and their very high financial gains (i.e. hundreds of millions of residential applications if used in each room). They are so physically small and draw less power than one light bulb per person, but only power-up if a person is in the room, and also only if the room temperature is below 65 degrees. They draw no power when the rooms are unoccupied. There are far more numerous applications in retail stores than homes. Office applications also abound. The potential national heating energy savings in just one American winter is so large, the potential re-valuations of buildings so great, and the cost to renovate so small, that there simply is no known energy-conservation technology comparable to Pinnacle's Beamers.
The science of "Weatherization"
All of the above infrared physiological energy effects relate to advanced forms of "weatherization", e.g. "reducing heat losses", which absolutely includes infrared heat energy losses. Weatherization is a very broad term which includes many measures such as home insulation, sealing air leaks, installing very costly thermally insulating windows, and even treating exterior surfaces of buildings with low infrared emissivity paints. State-of-the-art luxurious energy efficient windows, like gold-coated IR windows and low-emissivity coated windows retain the intense infrared radiant energy naturally ricocheting inside of warm rooms. All "retention of heat" programs are supported by Congress, States, and Tribes. But, luxury windows and the like are far too expensive retrofits, especially for low-income energy assistance weatherization programs - which seek large and immediate cost-effective cash relief. Thousands of dollars of weatherization to save mere hundreds of dollars per winter is not "cost effective". However, one Beamer per person costing less than $100 and can save $600-$1200 every heating season (the exact amount depends on house size).
Beamers actually create exactly the same effects as high-end expensive infrared weatherizing windows by drastically cutting infrared losses through windows. By simply turning down a thermostat by 12-20 degrees, the difference in temperature between the room and outdoors decreases, which reduces the flow of infrared heat through glass windows (as well as heat conducted through walls). The scientific side of this is that the intense infrared flux - normally trapped and ricocheting between walls and ceilings in 72-degree warm rooms - drastically decreases by the temperature-reduction to the forth power when room temperatures are lowered. That ultra simple action of turning down a thermostat, simulates the most costly and energy efficient "low emissivity windows" or even gold-reflecting, infrared luxury windows, by leaking far LESS infrared heat energy through windows to the outdoors. The low-powered Beamers merely restore the missing human body infrared energy to maintain the bath of infrared energy which a human body needs to feel physiologically "comfortable". The word "comfortable" can actually be defined as a specific balance of emitted infrared power by a person, versus the infrared flux in a room intercepted by a person. This - NOT AIR TEMPERATURE - defines real "comfort". Thus, there is no scientific doubt whatsoever that very low powered Beamers (as low as 65 watts) are a super low cost form of weatherization offering far higher residential energy savings than even the most costly alternative options available. Again, "weatherization" is legislatively defined as any measure which reduces heat losses, and Beamers uniquely provide that by way of a simple thermostat reduction. Lowered thermostat settings not only dramatically lower infrared losses through windows (by a temperature-to-the forth power law), but also reduce conductive thermal energy losses through the walls (a linear indoor-to-outdoor delta-T reduction). Therefore, Beamers actually achieve double weatherization (double "reduction of heat loss") - infrared plus thermal insulation weatherization. These scientific explanations can be rigorously supported academically and legally.
State and federal agencies are presently authorized to assist low income households to cover cost-effective weatherization. Low-cost Beamers can be installed without tools, and such a small one-time expense is typically 60 or more times less expensive than the current annual energy-assistance grants. In fact, more than one Beamer per family would be the ideal solution for most low income families - and, of course, high income families too.
Pinnacle is presently working with States, Indian Nations, and the Federal Government to establish a one-time Beamer "weatherization" voucher for low income families instead of perpetual annual energy-assistance. One goal of the Beamer-vouchers for the approximate 16 million qualified families is the ability to conveniently acquire Beamers at nearby retail stores or, via internet voucher-purchases. Most states and Indian Nations have their own low income energy assistance programs and also administer the above federal grant programs. The Beamer program is aimed at reducing many billions of state and federal expenses while providing even larger on-going family energy savings, far larger than any "stimulus" to date, which can be redirected toward food and well being. Please email us below to explore how we might implement this for you. We welcome your input and want to overcome obstacles, if any.
Beamers actually create exactly the same effects as high-end expensive infrared weatherizing windows by drastically cutting infrared losses through windows. By simply turning down a thermostat by 12-20 degrees, the difference in temperature between the room and outdoors decreases, which reduces the flow of infrared heat through glass windows (as well as heat conducted through walls). The scientific side of this is that the intense infrared flux - normally trapped and ricocheting between walls and ceilings in 72-degree warm rooms - drastically decreases by the temperature-reduction to the forth power when room temperatures are lowered. That ultra simple action of turning down a thermostat, simulates the most costly and energy efficient "low emissivity windows" or even gold-reflecting, infrared luxury windows, by leaking far LESS infrared heat energy through windows to the outdoors. The low-powered Beamers merely restore the missing human body infrared energy to maintain the bath of infrared energy which a human body needs to feel physiologically "comfortable". The word "comfortable" can actually be defined as a specific balance of emitted infrared power by a person, versus the infrared flux in a room intercepted by a person. This - NOT AIR TEMPERATURE - defines real "comfort". Thus, there is no scientific doubt whatsoever that very low powered Beamers (as low as 65 watts) are a super low cost form of weatherization offering far higher residential energy savings than even the most costly alternative options available. Again, "weatherization" is legislatively defined as any measure which reduces heat losses, and Beamers uniquely provide that by way of a simple thermostat reduction. Lowered thermostat settings not only dramatically lower infrared losses through windows (by a temperature-to-the forth power law), but also reduce conductive thermal energy losses through the walls (a linear indoor-to-outdoor delta-T reduction). Therefore, Beamers actually achieve double weatherization (double "reduction of heat loss") - infrared plus thermal insulation weatherization. These scientific explanations can be rigorously supported academically and legally.
State and federal agencies are presently authorized to assist low income households to cover cost-effective weatherization. Low-cost Beamers can be installed without tools, and such a small one-time expense is typically 60 or more times less expensive than the current annual energy-assistance grants. In fact, more than one Beamer per family would be the ideal solution for most low income families - and, of course, high income families too.
Pinnacle is presently working with States, Indian Nations, and the Federal Government to establish a one-time Beamer "weatherization" voucher for low income families instead of perpetual annual energy-assistance. One goal of the Beamer-vouchers for the approximate 16 million qualified families is the ability to conveniently acquire Beamers at nearby retail stores or, via internet voucher-purchases. Most states and Indian Nations have their own low income energy assistance programs and also administer the above federal grant programs. The Beamer program is aimed at reducing many billions of state and federal expenses while providing even larger on-going family energy savings, far larger than any "stimulus" to date, which can be redirected toward food and well being. Please email us below to explore how we might implement this for you. We welcome your input and want to overcome obstacles, if any.
GERMAN and FRENCH PATENTS FOR SALE
(not patent "licensing")
(not patent "licensing")
If you are entrepreneurial minded and would like to monopolize these two countries with IR Beamer sales (population 150 million, $40,000 per capita), please use the email form below to express your interest in negotiating such a purchase. Licensing retail stores (above) and outright sales of patents are ways to fund mass production of Beamers. The European patent sale encompasses a multi-billion dollar opportunity (please demonstrate that understanding, if we talk). Pinnacle's concept of such an alliance is this: 1). A royalty-free sale of these two patents has tax benefits. 2). The sale would allow Pinnacle to rapidly create automated IR Beamer mass production facilities, which can be shared in the early stages. 3). Pinnacle would allow the German/French patent holder to "copy exactly" our automated production facilities, or, 4). alternatively, the new patent owner could have Pinnacle's manufacturing facilities manufacture for them (purchase the Beamers from Pinnacle at a low mark up). Conceptually, the European patent holder can even use Pinnacle's storage fulfillment facilities to deliver Beamers almost anywhere in the world - thereby allowing all operations to be run from U.S. offices. Before contacting Pinnacle, it is recommended that you perform the preliminary math to illustrate that you grasp the potential magnitude of the multiple applications in both households and commercial buildings. Without that minimal appreciation, there would be little to discuss. Pinnacle would certainly appreciate being presented your financial credentials to avoid un-credentialed opportunists. Funds greater than ~$12 million would indicate a high potential of carrying out a European business plan. Beyond the foregoing, the European patent holder would also be free to sell Beamers in about 203 other countries - without the patent-monopoly protection afforded in Germany and France. The way we see it, Pinnacle can largely set up the new European patent holder with a nearly worldwide turn-key business launch. Please contact us below.
Note: Rewrite and incorporate below into the above 11/2010
Continuous gift #3 - also to all U.S. real estate owners
Every free GeoSolar central heating & cooling installation gift #2 above, will be given free of charge at least one of the the following patent pending, energy saving, infrared "Beamer" heating systems described below. These miniature beaming infrared heaters use less than 1/10th to 1/20th of the electricity than previous "space heaters". It's now possible to produce comfort heating even if you chose to turn your home thermostats down by 12 degrees - which would definitely save a whopping 40% on winter heating. Even if you already have a GeoSolar energy saver above [heating AND cooling], this super efficient radiant heater can still save 40% of the greatly reduced winter heating of GeoSolar technology in gift #2 above. These miniature extremely advanced infrared beaming heaters will also be commercially sold as a fund-raiser to help install (for free) millions more of the above residential GeoSolar central space conditioners.
Part of the reasoning behind providing extra winter energy savings is because it is common knowledge that winter heating costs are usually much higher than summer cooling costs in most parts of the world. Thus, these highly advanced infrared Beamer comfort heaters can go a long way to making cooling and heating energy consumption more equal. In addition, infrared Beamers also add to instantly raising home values.
Pinnacle has invented a >10 times more efficient infrared-emission technology, capable of producing rapid cozy living conditions within seconds instead of taking hours to heat whole houses or whole rooms. Rooms bathed in instant infrared warmth allow home-thermostats to be turned down from 72oF to about 60oF or even 52oF with no discomfort, thereby saving about 40-66% of average home-winter-heating costs. Savings of more than $1000 per winter are now possible with Pinnacle's low-powered and 90% efficient infrared generator technology. It might surprise many to learn that conventional infrared heating technology offers only 3% to 7% infrared energy generating efficiency. About 95% of old conventional infrared heater input power is wasted on heating the AIR, which is a horribly expensive means to electrically heat homes. Ordinarily, hot air first heats literally tons of furniture and walls before people start feeling warm. Infrared heating technology would be extremely popular if not for the utter gross inefficiency of old-style infrared technology. The moment has finally arrived. Radiant technology has just been made extremely efficient, costing 10-20 times less to create instant warmth. And Pinnacle is willing to "put its money where its mouth is" by giving at least one unit for free with every free GeoSolar installation simply because the more energy (fuel and electricity!) each GeoSolar home saves, the more Pinnacle can share in your savings and the faster the nation can become energy independent. Like we said, there's no gimmicks, no games. You can use the cozy infrared technology or not. It's free. The more you save, the more cash in your pocket too. You save cold cash, incur no indebtedness, and instantly receive a much more valuable home.This is all solid science and common sense, not hype sales.
According to government-sponsored ICF national studies, for every dollar of energy savings, homes or buildings are typically and instantly increased in value by more than $20. That is, people are actually willing to pay $20 for every $1 of savings!
Why is Pinnacle offering radiant heating for free? Let's be realistic. How many people would normally go out of their way, take the time, or spend thousands of dollars on radiant home heating, on the uncertainty of truly saving lots of money? "Very few" is the correct answer. Frankly, America cannot wait for word-of-mouth believers or a slow evolutionary transition to energy independence. Pinnacle asks no up front cash or indebtedness. We only ask you to share a portion of your energy savings so that Pinnacle can afford to give millions more of its radiant technology away for free to the rest of the nation. How much more fair can anything be? No one can say that they "can't afford" to share some of the energy savings because the cash savings will instantly be pocketed. Every home or apartment owner will already have pocketed real cash money and will have already increased the property value by literally thousands of dollars while enabling the entire country to do the same. If that's not utterly irresistible, then nothing can convince you. If money means something to you; if national energy independence is important to you, and if you care about saving the environment, then join in. A philanthropic donation to these three causes will jump you to the front of what will surely be a long line to receive these free technologies. But don't feel obligated to make a donation. No donations are required. But do not expect millions of homes to all be equipped at once. It will take many years to manufacture so many units.
Here's how prior infrared heating technology works. Check out the well known science and engineering behind it. Then imagine how Pinnacle's ~10-20 times better technology will improve everything:
The theory backing infrared radiant heating rests on the fact that house or room thermostats can be turned way down by at least 12oF to 20oF if your clothing and your body is comfortably warmed by safe infrared radiant heat. It's like comfortably sunbathing on a bright 60oF day. It is also very well known that each one-degree lower thermostat setting saves at least 3.3% home energy consumption and 3.3% lower heating bills. Thus, a mere 12oF thermostat reduction from 72oF to 60oF can save at least 40% of an average $2000 winter heating bill (i.e. at least $720 per winter savings). But commonly available infrared heaters are typically only 3% to 7% efficient at generating infrared radiant heat and they end up producing ~95% hot air - which is a horribly costly means to heat homes. Now imagine a dramatically efficient infrared generator which can produce about 15 times more radiant heat with no extra input power. [Conversely, this new technology consumes roughly 1/15th as much input power for the same infrared radiant heat]. It's equivalent to placing 15 old style 1000-watt infrared heaters in one room. Obviously, that would be far too hot and uncomfortable. Pinnacle's new low powered infrared generators can flood an entire room with intense radiant heat while consuming a fraction of the normal electrical input power. Thus, with such intense radiant infrared heating, thermostats can be turned down even lower than 60oFand still be comfortable. Home thermostats turned down from 72oF to 52oF can save a whopping 66% of an ordinary $2000 winter heating bill - a savings of about $1,320 per winter! Even if one state-of-the-art Pinnacle radiant heater is placed in five rooms and each person switched theirs on for 12 hours a day, the net energy savings can still approach $1270 per winter by setting the thermostat way down. However, under normal conditions, only one to three rooms are occupied at the same time. Thus, energy savings will likely exceed $1200 per winter with instant radiant heating at your fingertips. And such energy savings can instantly make a home about $24,000 more valuable according to the above ICF national study on what people actually PAY for more energy efficient homes. Radiant heat can even supplement the super efficient GeoSolar space-conditioning technology above.
Special Beamer applications in classrooms and crowded areas
Classrooms filled with many people might seem inappropriate for many Beamers. After all, each person requires about 100 watts of supplemental radiant heating and a classroom with, for example, 33 students, at first glance, would appear to demand up to 3300 watts of electrical power (11,270 BTU/hr) in cold northern climates. After generating and bathing people in comfortable radiant heat, all of the input power eventually heats the air - an apparent expensive proposition, as discussed previously. It's one thing to provide a mere 100 watts of warmed air in one room with one person (only 1000 BTUs/hr), but a crowd in one room is another matter. However, something pleasantly unexpected arises in such a crowded Beamer-application. The end-product of 3300 watts of Beamer radiation (after warming people), is warm air.The resulting warm air allows thermostats to be lowered even below the previously recommended "52oF" residential settings. The addition of about 3300 watts of expensive electricity (11,270 BTUs) allows thermostats to be reduced far below 52oF - at about 42oF or less! Here's why: In this classroom example, we are assuming 33 students present - each radiating their own 100 watts of heat (essential to all metabolisms). That alone is equal to 3300 watts of body heat supplied to the classroom. If an additional 3300 watts of infrared radiant heat is added (total = 6600 watts or, 22,540 BTUs/hr) to a typical 1000 square foot classroom, that's more than enough total heating to maintain the room above 52oF even in cold norther climates. Thus, the supplemental radiant Beamers can be set on "low power" while still maintaining human comfort at thermostat settings of about 42oF. The central heating system would switch itself on very seldom with Beamer supplemental heat. This surprising classroom Beamer effect is possible because each Beamer consumes so little input power per person. High powered (inefficient) prior art radiant heaters would demand extremely high power to provide very little radiant heat. Thus, prior art heaters would only serve to electrically heat the entire classroom to a comfortable 72oF - a prohibitively expensive prior art heating system.The same classroom radiant heating concept applies to crowded shopping centers, retail stores, movie theaters, convention centers, and the like. Beamers have wide indoor and outdoor applications because they can uniquely beam intense radiant heat over very long distances. And Beamers consume zero power unless people are present. Thus, most of time, (nights, weekends, etc), such very low thermostat settings demand very little space-heating, and Beamers will rapidly switch on to raise the effective temperature by 12-20oF when people arrive.
ULTRA HIGH LEVERAGE PHILANTHROPY
PLEASE do not consider cash donations to the above causes. There's a 100 times better option for you than just being a one-time conscientious philanthropist. Please PURCHASE* a large number of the above infrared radiant heaters and donate them to your favorite charity and require the charity to distribute them to the most needy who want to save an extra $1000 (or more) every winter on heating. Your one-time gift of one to five infrared heaters per home will be greatly leveraged 100-fold and your gift will keep on giving for a decade or more! How on earth can you do better than a 100-fold leverage? Your one time gift - which earns you tax benefits - ends up saving the most needy people literally 10's OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS!! So, if indeed you wish to be super-philanthropic, this is the best way with the highest leverage we have ever seen. Not only do you save people so much cash, you actually add perhaps $10,000-$20,000 higher resale value to their homes to boot. Can you imagine more leverage than that? (PS: Seriously, if you can imagine a better leverage by or with any other method, we'd love to hear from you!) If all that is still not enough for you, then know this: All of the proceeds from your infrared purchases will go to our Global Warming Solution (gift) and toward installing millions of free GeoSolar systems above. Thus, philanthropists get several times higher leverage than 100-fold! They get the immediate tax benefits, help to clean the air/environment, put cash in people's pockets, and stimulate the economy many times more than any government stimulus has, while also helping to overcome REAL global warming! There simply is no other greater philanthropic leverage. The goal is to equip 100 million homes with super low cost supplemental radiant heat - a $10 billion cause which produces a trillion dollar high-leverage philanthropic impact on America. No donation is too large. Please think "big".
*You can also donate cash directly to your favorite charity with the stipulation that they purchase and distribute the super low power radiant heaters to the most needy (to save on winter heating).
You'll be:
- Gifting radiant heating units to save thousands (gift #3)
- Installing free GeoSolar heating and cooling units (gift #2)
- Developing the benign global warming solution (gift #1)
