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Much of Asia spends more energy cooling buildings than it spends
on lighting and heating combined. Not just Asia, but that is where our
story begins. SolarSnow has developed a line of inexpensive and efficient, organic chemical appliances for air cooling, air conditioning and refrigeration that exploit the heat of the sun or the ultraviolet rays of overcast skies. Instead of using electricity or expensive photovoltaic cells that convert solar energy into electricity to run conventional motor-driven compressor-system cooling appliances*, SolarSnow uses the sun's energy to activate organic compounds that create cold directly -- more economically and in a much more environmentally friendly way.** SolarSnow is an environmentally-conscious commercial effort to enter and compete in the over $250 billion per year (wholesale) cooling equipment market -- with attention to Asia, Africa and the South Pacific, where too many buildings, businesses and homes use more energy for cooling and air conditioning than they use for lighting and water heating combined. Also in sight for immediate attention are the North American and European markets, where rising summer temperatures result in large numbers of people swiching on conventional air condition units, the natural consequent being power outages, leaving homes without cooling alternatives. SolarSnow is also an attempt to create a highly identifiable and popular environmentally-conscious commercial brand name in the cooling industry, where even one-tenth of one percent of the annual wholesale market is over a quarter of a billion dollars. Under the corporate plan to diversely subcontract manufacture multi-nationally, exploiting regional energy conservation and environmental conservation programs, the target is obviously much greater. SolarSnow represents the first major re-introduction of heat-generated catalytic refrigeration technology into the consumer market in 80 years. Patents for heat-generated refrigeration appeared before 1870 and dozens of unique variations had appeared by the end of the 1930s. The technology is available custom-order to industrial or specialty users, but not since the 1930s has this technology been manufactured and promoted for general residential or small business use. Previous 'intermittent absorption refrigeration' systems used various heat sources from candles to wood or kerosene. Cheap electricity removed them from the market. High energy prices will bring them back. SolarSnow improves upon the technology, then replaces general heat sources with the energy of the sun. The Thai-Canadian combination presents a formidable opportunity. Canada has significant experience in cooling technologies due to recreational activities requiring ice and snow year-round. Calgary, home of solar-snow's creator and host to the 1988 Winter Olympics, boasts some of the largest and most sophisticated ammonia ice-making systems in the world. Thailand -- a major manufacturer and exporter of high quality appliances -- is geographically central to the major Asian markets that are the primary target for SolarSnow products, since those markets have the largest natural demand. When you are in Bangkok you are not only in a hot and sunny region, you are within 5 hours travel of most of the population of the world. |
