SOLAR WINDOW FURNACE, AN INNOVATIVE HOME FUEL SAVER

Washington, MA resident, innovator, entrepreneur and also local Pittsfield merchant, owner of Berkshire Fine Hand Crafts on North Street has come up with a brilliant fuel saving solution to help keep folks warm and cozy this winter – a SOLAR FURNACE that easily installs into a south facing window. 

In a Berkshire Eagle article today the invention was revealed to the world.
John Yates, Inventor with the assistance of Gary Rodd, a Middlefield carpenter has developed a prototype furnace.  According to Scott Stafford’s Eagle article. “…furnace that weighs less than 15 pounds and uses no electricity.  The simple dual-chamber gizmo uses simple convection to pump heat into the house and suck cooler air out.  A slab of black corrugated metal collects the heat, heats the air in the upper chamber, which rises and passes into the house while the cooler air in the house passes out through the lower chamber.”

While the furnace won’t replace the boiler, it will reduce the amount of heat it needs to generate.

In talking with Yates later in the day he mentioned, he is producing a few prototypes for Beta testing immediately and hopes a manufacturer he is contracting with will have finished product available within 6 to 8 weeks.

He is taking names secured with a credit card for a waiting list of folks interested in the product that he expects to deliver for about $250.00 a unit. Customers will be contacted when the furnaces are ready and before the charge is processed.
If you are interested in learning more or want to jump in line on the waiting list, then John can be reached at 413-623-8899.  Let us know how you make out.

We had a convection fireplace insert after the first gas crisis back in the seventies that worked just fine. In fact when we moved, we passed it along to my father-in-law who beefed it up with a blower and it continues to work.

While the solar window furnace is a simple and easy to use, electricity free heating unit, John might want to consider adding a blower to the system as he evolves the product.  It enables the air-flow to more deeply penetrate the heated space.  Off grid solar or wind could drive the blower as well as grid-sourced electricity.

For early adopters the solar furnace appears to be a product one would want to acquire.

We like convection technology since our experience suggests that it works,
We are on the wait list for a couple; we thought we would give innovative solar furnace a go.

We will let you know what we discover!!!

A solar updraft tower (also known as a solar chimney or solar tower) consists of a large greenhouse that funnels into a central tower. As sunlight shines on the greenhouse, the air inside is heated, and expands. The expanding air flows toward the central tower, where a turbine converts the air flow into electricity.

Greetings!

By contrast, Republican Senator Jim Inhofe seems to be making a career out of global warming, and most of the deniers cite mainly political blogs and conservative newspaper reports for support.