Patent ID: 8191547

Claim:
A system, comprising: a housing having an air-intake register and an air-exhaust register; and an inflatable solar collector operatively connectable to the housing, wherein: the housing comprises an air blower configured to draw air through the air-intake register and direct the drawn air into a tube connectable to the inflatable solar collector; the inflatable solar collector comprises a first chamber and a second chamber separated by a flexible permeable membrane; in operation, air pressure generated by the air blower causes the drawn air to flow through the tube into the first chamber, percolate through the permeable membrane into the second chamber, and exhaust from the second chamber through the air-exhaust register; the inflatable solar collector comprises a plurality of tubular chambers, each divided by the permeable membrane into a respective first sub-chamber and a respective second sub-chamber; the first sub-chamber is part of the first chamber; and the second sub-chamber is part of the second chamber.