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Publication whose 2006 forum thread provides the archive's only long-term real-world Beadwall performance data, from a 1983 superinsulated home.
Magazine that profiled Harold Hay, published a 1974 Beadwall article, and ran the 1970s 'Living Off the Grid with Steve Baer' feature documenting Baer's Zomeworks compound.
Michigan State University museum that hosted Oscar Tuazon's Water School exhibition in 2019.
One of the developers, with Dick Henry and Baer, who brought the Skylid to its documented state.
One of the developers, with David Boyd and Baer, who brought the Skylid to its documented state.
Collaborator who ran the February 1974 reflector tests with Baer showing skylight reflectors increase heat gain by more than 30%.
Beadwall house in Placitas, NM (1980) designed by Dave Harrison, shown in the 2009 AIA passive solar slideshow.
Albuquerque school with a 1973 Dave Harrison/Zomeworks greenhouse; its Beadwall greenhouse is photographed in Sunspots.
David Wright's own 1974 Santa Fe adobe direct-gain house and office, the building the Karen Terry House was a variation of.
Movable-insulation invention (US Patent 3,903,665, Harrison, filed 1973) that blows polystyrene beads between window panes, covered by Mother Earth News in 1974.
Tuazon's 2013 glass-pane work whose cavity fills with polystyrene beads at night for insulation — functionally a Beadwall, though the article does not name Harrison's system.
Baer's 1975 window insulation approach using rigid foam pressed against glass, the simplest of the three Zomeworks window-insulation systems.
Dave Harrison's 1975 Beadwall patent ('Heat energy transmission control panel'), assigned personally rather than to Zomeworks.