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Steve Baer
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Inventor, author, and Zomeworks co-founder (died May 2024) whose passive solar work — Dome Cookbook, Sunspots, the Baer House, DrumWall, Skylid, Cool Cell, and the double-play thermosiphon — is the central subject of the archive.
Inventor, author, and Zomeworks co-founder (died May 2024) whose passive solar work — Dome Cookbook, Sunspots, the Baer House, DrumWall, Skylid, Cool Cell, and the double-play thermosiphon — is the central subject of the archive.
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See also
- Ken Kern — owner-built-home author who shared Baer’s DIY construction ethos
- Oscar Tuazon — artist whose ZOME ALLOY reproduction of the Baer house brought Baer’s work into contemporary art discourse
- Hoyt Hottel — MIT solar researcher representing the institutional tradition Baer’s independent work stood apart from
- J. Douglas Balcomb — LANL passive solar researcher who brought scientific rigor to the field Baer helped found