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Jesse Rodefer
confidence: low volatility: cold
Zomeworks spokesman and Architectural Cool Cell division figure. Quoted in a 2000 Albuquerque Journal article explaining the Cool Cell's water-pipe ceiling system, and credited in a 2002 source with suggesting that existing swimming-pool solar heaters be repurposed as night-time building coolers.
Zomeworks spokesman quoted in a 2000 Albuquerque Journal article (“Cool pipes chill room naturally”) explaining the Cool Cell as “a climate-control system consisting of water pipes located in a structure’s ceiling” that air-conditions large buildings “without using 1 kilowatt of electricity.” See Albuquerque Journal on Baer.
Credited in the archive’s 2002 pool-heater cooling source with the idea that seeded that project: use the tens of thousands of existing swimming-pool solar heaters already installed nationwide as night-time building coolers, since running pool collectors at night to cool pools in hot climates was already a familiar technique. See Pool heater cooling.
Possible relationship to Benjamin Rodefer
Zomeworks passed to sole ownership of Benjamin Rodefer following Steve Baer’s 2024 death (per Wikipedia). Whether Benjamin and Jesse Rodefer are related is not documented anywhere found in this archive or in web research conducted 2026-07-19 — flagged as an open question, not assumed.
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Full name, professional background, and current role (if any) at Zomeworks are not documented beyond these two appearances as company spokesman, roughly two years apart (2000, 2002).