Solar-Breeze - Robotic Solar Pool Skimmer

Entrepreneurs who have business concepts based on sustainability and other environmental ideals will compete for as much as $5,000 at the Great Green Business Search on May 10.

Solar Pool Technologies is one of 15 companies selected by The Green Chamber to pitch their big Green idea.

One of the prizes is a People's Choice Award.

The event will start at 9am and run until 3pm May 10, 2012 at ASU's SkySong Scottsdale Innovation Center.  This is at the corner of Scottsdale and McDowell Roads in south Scottsdale.

Come on down.  Listen to all 15 great ideas and vote for us! For a list of the contestants, visit the Green Chamber of Greater Phoenix.

If you don't own one of these great pool skimmers already, get one immediately!

For big pools or small pools, you won't regret it, it saves you time and money and it's fun to watch it work. And wait until you see how efficiently it catches all the dirt, that swims around on the surface of your pool.

I was surprised to see how brave this  little machine is.  Sometimes I find even long pieces of palm tree leaves curled up in its collecting tray.  More than this, the machine's fine mesh filter catches all the tiny unwanted things such as dust, pollen, little bugs and other very small stuff, which you normally cannot even see, how much of it is in your pool and probably causes you allergies, irritations or just contributes massively to the pool's contamination.

And it will last you a long time, because of its sturdy construction and the super friendly and generous customer service, which is really willing to help, no matter what part of the globe you're calling from.

Aloha from Hawaii!  Dan, in the Hawaiian Islands

We love to hear from our customers.  Thank you for your kind words Dan.

A few years ago, the Riley family was gathered by the pool, talking science in general and physics in particular.  Braden and Kristin were 9 and 10 at the time when they asked, “Why do people heat a pool from the top when heat rises?”  Great question!

Sun warms the surface of the water but that heat is easily lost to the air.  Instead of recirculating the warm water from the top 12 inches of the pool, there had to be a way of taking that warm water down to the bottom.  They invented a simple device called the Heat Snorkel.

With this system, the warmed water is pulled through the filter and reintroduced towards the bottom of the pool.  As it rises, it circulates and warms the pool.

Here we are in the holidays.  There are goodies on every desk and special offers in every other email.  Our diets are out the window and our wallets have come unlatched.  What are some ways we can live the 5 Rs and still celebrate the season? 

The first R stands for Reduce -- but who wants to!  Pour a glass of eggnog  and ponder how to make this season a green celebration.