SOLAR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATIVE

Lighting the Way With Creation's Original Remedy

Lt. Colonel Richard T. Headrick

United States Air Force (ret)

Inventor of the Headrick Solar-Voltaic Dome(TM) Power Station

Solar-Voltaic Dome(TM) 21,000 SF PV Surface On One Acre

Dinner With Lt. Colonel Richard T. Headrick
Ritz Carlton on the Country Club Plaza 1995
Local Businessman, Eileen M. Smith, Allied Signal Associates
Colonel Headrick Front & Center With WWII Buddy On Left

Summary of biographical events:
  • Child Actor In The 1930s
  • Commercial Aviation Pilot's License At Age 16 In 1930s
  • Inducted Into Canadian Airforce At Age 23 To Fly B17 In WWII
  • Inducted Into United States Airforce 1941 To Fly B17 In WWII
  • Only known WWII Pilot to have completed 96 missions without losing one crewperson
  • Developed Numerous Inventions For Defense, Aviation, etc.
  • Designed Long Beach Spruce Goose Dome
  • Spirit of St. Louis flown by Charles Augustus Lindberg whom Colonel Headrick knew
  • Patented Headrick Solar-Voltaic Dome(TM) Power Station 1986
  • Wrote and Published w/Combat Air Museum: A MIGHTY FORTRESS 1994

  • A Speaker - Historian - Inventor - Pilot - Writer - Engineer - Humanitarian

For those of you who are plane experts -you know the above flying plane is not a B17.

Founder & CEO Eileen M. Smith, M.Arch.

Waving Hello From Cockpit of B-17
Photo Taken By Sam Elias 1997
47th and Last El Toro Air Show

Lt. Colonel Headrick did not fly the Memphis Belle pictured here.
This cockpit is the best photo available to get us in B17 where he lived for nearly two years in WWII.

B-17 Flying Fortress - A Panoramic Virtual Tour With Quicktime VR

Still want to explore the B17 further -try out these websites:

B-17 Veterans Salute Tour B-17 Crewmen B-17 Sites B-17 Specifications

0-1-10-100-1000 Approach to Mainstream Deployment

Advent of the Headrick Solar-Voltaic Dome(TM) Power Station

Three International BI-PV Deployment Programs

Compare Advanced PV Central Power Station -remote field site with Solar-Voltaic Dome(TM)

Power Station
Land Area
Leasable Area
Type PV
Field/BI-PV
Daily Output
#Homes
$Millions
PVIncomeYR
Advanced PV
5 Acres
No
TF
Field
2.876 MWh
150
$1.96
86,100
Solar-Voltaic Dome(TM)
1 Acre
34,000 SF
PL
BI-PV
2 MWh
150
$1.6
60,000
5 Solar-Voltaic Domes(TM)
5 Acres
170,000 SF
PL
BI-PV
10 MWh
750
$7.6
$300,000

Eileen M. Smith, M.Arch. our Founder & CEO

Our CEO relocated to Corona del Mar near to Colonel Headrick's hometown of Irvine, California in 1996 to put together a development plan to build a prototype of the Headrick Solar-Voltaic Dome(TM) Power Station in the inventor's hometown, and to open a BI-PV Design Studio(R) in Newport Beach, California. After marketing the Solar-Voltaic Dome(TM) internationally for three years, finding numerous interested parties, including the World Bank; the need for a prototype has become our priority in the marketing process. In the Irvine area, the mid-size power station will serve as a distribution feeder support. It will create approximately 2 MWh+ of clean sustainable photovoltaic electricity around three hundred days a year. In the table above, we provide a comparison of the cost and output of a Solar-Voltaic Dome(TM) with the CADDET field PV project Advanced PV Central Power Station recently completed in Southern California. The Sustainable Village(R) Developments have been designed to exploit the Headrick Solar-Voltaic Dome(TM) Power Station as a manufacturing facility and a solar electric car rental facility. The Millennium Dome(R) project includes a 60,000 SF PV manufacturing facility designed as a walk-through museum. June 1997

Eileen M. Smith, M.Arch.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory