Abstract: A solar powered air conditioning system includes an energy generating loop and a cooling loop. The energy loop includes a tank containing liquid refrigerant, a pump, a heat supply container including a coil, a magnifier lens and a turbine generator. The lens intensifies energy from the sun and directs it to the coil. When the pump is engaged, the refrigerant travels to the heat supply container where the sun heats and changes it from a liquid to a gas. The gas is conducted to the generator producing electricity. The cooling loop includes a shutoff valve, a fan disposed in an environment of interest, a separator, a condenser and an evaporator. In a cooling cycle, the gaseous refrigerant moves from the generator to the separator. The refrigerant is passed to the condenser. The fan directs air to the condenser where the refrigerant absorbs heat to cool the environment of interest.

Abstract: A trash bag for recyclable waste which will eliminate a second collection of recyclables and having color or another type of code thereon to permit the bag to be identified and separated from trash bags containing ordinary trash, and a system and method for collecting recyclable waste. The trash bag is designed to be placed in the normal trash collection stream along with bags of ordinary trash and to be delivered to an existing landfill or incinerator or to another separation location at which identification and separation of the bags from the bags of ordinary trash is accomplished. According to the invention, identification and separation of the bags of recyclable trash can be performed manually or in an automated manner at the landfill, incinerator, or other separation location.