Our team has worked with energy saving paints for three years. We have tested a variety of paints and paint combinations and we have set up large projects on buildings with this type of paint. Our evaluation of this type of paint is that it does save energy and it offers some new options for people who are serious about reducing the cost of heating and air conditioning.

One major concern about the paint has been the cost. This problem has been mitigated with the New Energy Paint that we are now bringing to the market place. This New Energy Paint Additive is both very effective in reducing energy consumption and it is very cost effective.

About two years ago BioTech Research (makers of the edenpure heaters) test marketed a paint made by Thermo-Shield and we think that the reason it did not succeed was the high price of Thermo-Shield... but now we have found a much more cost effective way to get the same energy saving results that interested BioTech Research in the first place.

We have now found a money saving paint additive that can make any paint (interior, exterior, roof coat) into a energy saving paint as good as or better than the expensive ceramic paints that are now on the market.

In this report we will share information about our initial testing of the paint and make some observations about how the paint can help owners of homes and buildings reduce the cost of energy and add value to their buildings.

Origin Of The Paint

The NASA Space Program created a special Energy Paint to protect space craft from extreme temperatures in outer space. Energy Paints have used this technology to emulate the paint used in the space program. The most effective paints are a combination of a high quality paint and additives that provide a barrier to the passage of heat through the surface the paint is painted on. As with most cutting edge technologies, this New Energy Paint requires a paradigm shift to understand why and how it will save on the energy bill. People are used to thinking about insulation as the tool to conserve energy in a building.

Obviously the space program did not use insulation as we think of it, as a primary protector of space craft. The space craft did not have large amounts of puffy pink insulation wrapped around it to protect from the extreme temperatures as it hurled through space at high speeds. What it had was a high quality paint with an additive that had a major resistance to heat. The energy paints that have been developed, resist the heat by reflecting and by emitting the heat. Insulation is different. It slows the passage of heat passing through the insulation mass. It is measured in R-value whereas the energy paint does not have an R-value. The paint is thin and it does not have enough mass to have an R-value.

To understand how Energy Paint has some benefits that insulation does not have, we can evaluate what happens in a bedroom on a hot summer day without Energy Paint and with Energy Paint. During the day the heat penetrates the roof and walls of the home and the insulation in the attic and walls slowly heats up as the heat passes from the outside to the inside. At night the sun shuts down, but the heat in the insulation is now stored up in what has become thermal mass. From the insulation, the heat continues to seek cooler temperatures and it moves from the insulation into the walls and the ceiling and continues to heat the home long after the sun has gone down. Many people can remember being frustrated as they try to cool off and sleep in a room that is still hot even after the sun is no longer providing heat. In the wee hours of the morning there is a cooling of the room and blissful sleep comes;but there is a nagging feeling that somehow it is not right that the bedroom should be so hot for such a long time even when the evening has turned cooler.

With Energy Paint in strategic parts of the home, there is reflection and rejection of heat. The thermal mass storage is greatly reduced and coolness comes much faster when the sun goes down. Insulation does have value and it is in the code. We are not suggesting that it should be eliminated. Instead we are suggesting there are major benefits to be gained by adding Energy Paint to the building.

The New Energy Paint that we are introducing is a product that emulates the original paint used in the space program. It is a paint that benefits from the time and the learning that has taken place since then. It uses an effective heat barrier additive and it uses up to date modern paint resins that are very high quality. It is put together by a scientific team with extensive paint experience and a good track record. It is an entirely new formulation and it is expected to be a very high quality and cost effective paint. At the time of this report, there are two types of paint that are ready to be used. One is the Interior Paint and the other is the Exterior Paint. Coming soon will be paint designed to cover the roof and serve as a roof coating.

Preliminary Test Results

Based on where the paint is coming from, we are predisposed to assume that it will work. But as we take it to the world, there will be a host of questions and there will be a need to have tests that show that it will work. Our experience with introducing people to Energy Paint is that there are a large number of people who are hands on tire kicking type people. They want to prove that it works by testing it themselves. Many resist reading large amounts of scientific data, but most find do it yourself testing to be fun and credible. With this in mind, we have designed some simple persuasive tests that can be duplicated by most people who are interested. Over time we will evolve from simple to sophisticated testing. In time there will be third party testing, but in the beginning, we are building three party table top test kits that most people can use to test the paint for themselves. At this point we have built and tested a Test Board and a Test Box. These simple test kits show that the paint does stop the passage of heat and this means that the paint, when it is properly used, will help save money on the cost of energy to heat and cool a home.

Testing With The Test Board

We purchased a display board at Staples. It folds out and stands up and it is made of white cardboard. We painted a section with Exterior Paint and a section with Interior Paint. The rest of the board is blank with white cardboard on both sides. We are measuring the temperature with a laser temperature gun that allows us to pull the trigger and get temperatures via a laser so that we can be distant from the heated section and still get a temperature. We are using a 250 watt infrared heat lamp to provide heat that is hot, constant, and repeatable. We know that if we paint the white board with darker paint, there will be more heat that passes through, but we have left the white intact to provide a good test comparison with the Energy Paint.

In the preliminary and exploratory testing, we are using a three party testing team consisting of : Bryan Anderson PhD., and two or more students. We have tested together and separately. Thus far we have done about twenty tests and it is clear to us that the paint works. In the following there will be a description of some preliminary conclusions and observations that come from our testing and analysis thus far:

A. The paint works at reducing the heat that passes through the painted surface.

B. When the light is shining at a close distance on the paint, there is a major amount of the heat that is reflected off and that does not get into the surface of the paint.

C. Once the heat is in the paint, it runs into a Heat Maze and it is routed around inside the paint and much of the heat is emitted or rejected out of the paint surface back in the direction it came from. Some heat gets through the paint and goes out the opposite side from where it enters, but the amount is greatly reduced. When the light is shining on the paint, there is a reduction coming from reflection and from the Heat Maze. When the light is shining on the back side of the paint, so that it enters the cardboard first and comes to the painted surface from there, we find that there is a major reduction of heat passage because of the Heat Maze. So the paint stops the heat from the front and from the back.

E. As evidence of the Heat Maze, we have observed that the heat stays in the painted surface for a while after the light is turned off.

F. The amount of heat that passes through the unpainted surfaces is much greater than that which passes through the painted surfaces, which suggests that the paint will provide significant savings in both heating and cooling.

G. The paint protects against heat damage compared to the unpainted surface and is much less prone to catch on fire.

Since the Energy Paint stops and slows down the penetration of heat, lets consider some ways this paint could be used to solve the problem of the hot bedroom. The roof and the exterior walls could have an application of Exterior Paint or of a paint designed to cover the roof to reflect back the heat of the sun. Interior Paint could be placed under the roof from the attic. Interior walls and ceilings could be painted with Interior Paint.

Testing With The Test Box

We purchased two identical file boxes from the UPS store. Both had a lid and were made of cardboard. Both were largely white except for brown on the inside bottom. We left one in the original state and painted the other on all the inside surfaces with Interior Paint and on all the outside surfaces with Exterior Paint. This left us with a box to do base line tests to show what heat does in an unpainted surface and with a painted box to demonstrate the difference that Energy Paint makes as a heat barrier. Both boxes were tilted on the side and the lid was put on the exterior of the exposed side that we were planning to shine the heat lamp on. The lamp was attached to the table and both boxes were placed equal distance from the lamp so that the open interior of the boxes would receive equal amounts of light and heat from the lamp. This test was conducted by Bryan Anderson PhD and observed by three college students who passed through and got a briefing on the test. Later an owner of a heating and air conditioning company observed the test and did a few measurements. Two white bowls were placed in the middle of each box. The idea was to heat both boxes and have a simple simulation of what happens when a building is heated with and without Energy Paint. Efforts were made to make the conditions on the boxes the same so that the variable would be surfaces that were painted and unpainted. After about an hour, measurements were taken on the temperatures of the two boxes. We report these measurements in the following:

A. In the unpainted box, in the middle where the lamp was shining, the temperature was 132.1 F .

B. In the same section of the painted box, the temperature was 97.8 F .

C. On the back side of the lid which covered the side that the light was shining on in the unpainted box the temperature was 78.4 F .

D. In the same section of the painted box the temperature was 71.6 F .

E. On the top of the unpainted box on the outside. the temperature was 77.8 F .

F.In the same section of the painted box the temperature was 74 F .

G. The side of the bowl the most distant from the lamp measured a temperature of 67 F with the unpainted box.

H. The same side of the bowl in the painted box measured a temperature of 70 F .

I. Both bowls had equal amounts of ice in them.

K. The pre test temperature of both boxes was 68 F .

Analysis Of The Test

What we are simulating here is a home painted on the inside with Interior Paint and on the outside, with Exterior Paint. The results show that at the point where the light is striking the box on the inside there is more heat being reflected off of the painted surface since it is 34.3 degrees cooler.In the back there are 6.8 degrees more heat that get out of the unpainted box on the back side. At the top there are 3.8 more degrees that get out of the unpainted box. The higher temperature of the bowl in the painted box shows that heat being reflected on the inside moves around and get picked up by the bowl which is in the middle of the box.

The conclusion we can draw from this test is that heat in a room painted with the Energy Paint will stay in the room longer than heat in an unpainted room. This will translate into lower consumption of energy for heating and a lower cost for the utility bill. One way to translate this data into something that most people who pay utility bills will understand, is to think of heat degrees escaping from the back of the box as dollars per day escaping from the family or business bank account. If seven dollars is being burned per day because heat is escaping from a home or building, that means that the monthly utility bill is costing $210.00 a month more to heat the home when Energy Paint is not being used. With Energy Paint, the bill will be greatly reduced because the heat escaping from the home that is fueled by burning cash will be greatly reduced. In a six month winter, the savings on heating might add up to $1260.00. Over a ten year period these savings could add up to $12,600.00 or more depending on the utility rates. With Energy Paint, these savings are projected to last a long time because the quality of the paint is high which will make it last a long time. Because the paint reflects and rejects the heat, that will also make the paint last much longer than ordinary paint. So an additional conclusion is that not only will the Energy Paint provide savings on the cost of utilities, it will do so for a very long time.

Another way to think about these results is to think about how much heat is stopped by the paint compared to how much is not. The boxes started with a temperature of 68 F. Where the light was striking in the back, the unpainted box gained 64 degrees and the painted box gained 29.8 degrees. Where heat was escaping in the back, there is a loss of 10.4 degrees in the unpainted box compared to a loss of 3.6 degrees in the painted box. In the top the unpainted box lost 9.8 degrees and the painted box lost 6 degrees. This shows that with more protection, there is a smaller percent of heat loss. It also shows that claims of savings of 20 to 40 percent on heating and cooling, could be realistic. Obviously, conditions and savings will vary.

In a multi story home or building, it will be possible to have more layers of protection. Paint could be on the roof, under the roof, in two or more ceilings and on the walls. Each coating of paint will provide some protection. The best protection will be with reflection followed by the Heat Maze. In this system one could have a number of important layers of protection and provide major savings on heating and cooling.

Another benefit of this paint is that it looks like normal paint. It can be tinted to any of the colors that other paints can be tinted to and it will look attractive. It is a flat paint and if there is a need, some gloss can be added on top; but for the most part, it will look normal and attractive.

Testing For And Explaining The Heat Maze

With our simple measuring tools, we started by testing the temperatures on the front and on the back. In both cases, the temperatures were higher in the unpainted surface. As we continued testing, we noticed that the painted surface retained heat for a time even after the lamp was turned off. By contrast, the unpainted surface cooled down quickly. We did some more testing and found that it took several moments for the painted surface to cool down although it started at a lower temperature than the unpainted surface. We call this property of the Energy Paint, the Heat Maze. Here is a brief explanation of how we think it works:

A. The first line of defense against the heat is reflection. The Energy Paint is white which causes some of the reflection. It also has a large number of additive bits that are in the paint. These additive bits stop the heat and send it in another direction.

B. The heat enters the paint with energy. Some of the heat is reflected off the front where it has entered. Another group of heat rays penetrates the outer surface of the paint and hits the additive bits and recoils in another direction while still inside the paint. The heat we are measuring in the paint shows this activity. After bouncing around in the paint, much of the heat energy goes back out the way that it came in.

C. Some of the heat energy avoids the reflection and gets all the way through the Heat Maze to get out the other side. The fact that this is a smaller amount of heat than the heat that gets out of the unpainted surface, supports this analysis.

Since the paint is thin, it takes some thinking to understand how this complex heat universe actually works. Here is a word picture we came up with.

A. First we need to think at the microscopic level. Microscopes reveal great complexity that normal vision does not see.

B. Now think of a billiard table with three times the normal amount of balls glued randomly on the table top. Into this maze we send ten energized white balls from one side aimed for the other side. Some balls are bounced back to where they started and they leave the game. Some balls bounce around on the table until they bounce back in a few minutes to where they started, whereupon they are eliminated.

C. Some of the white balls keep on bouncing around and moving forward until they get all the way through the maze. As they penetrate through the paint, the heat can be measured on the other side.

D. The key to this concept is to understand that the additive bits are immersed in the paint. They provide many barriers to the heat rays. The fact that the paint retains heat, shows us that the Heat Maze is working.

Conclusion

Both the Exterior and Interior Paint demonstrate a capacity to stop heat from passing through. In the winter this means that more heat will stay in a building and the cost of heating will go down if the Energy Paint is being used. In the summer the Energy Paint will keep heat out of the building and the cost of air conditioning will go down. Since the combination of heating and cooling represent the major part of the utility bill in most buildings; the capacity of the Energy Paint to provide savings on the use of energy in buildings is very significant. Since this New Energy Paint is both high quality and cost effective, it can become a useful tool for anyone who is serious about reducing the cost of energy in their home or building.

Action

We are interested in finding distributors to market this New Energy Paint. We are also interested in finding show case customers who can get the paint at a low cost and demonstrate how the paint works on their buildings.

Follow Up

For more information you are welcome to contact Dr. Bryan Anderson
@ "New Energy Solutions" - Email: DrBryanEAnderson@aol.com
Phone Dr. Bryan Anderson: 435-787-1567