#passive-cooling
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Magazine that published the December 2020 in-depth article on Harold Hay, Skytherm, and the quest for passive cooling.
Commercial radiative-cooling company named by MIT Technology Review (Dec 2025) as an active player in the current passive-cooling wave.
Military branch whose circa-1985 Passive Solar Handbook defined passive cooling as air-based ventilation only, omitting Hay, Baer, Zomeworks, and water-based night-sky cooling acro…
1994 Passive Cooling System patent that moved the radiator to the roof with symmetric parallel conduits for balanced thermosiphon flow.
Circa-1985 multi-volume USAF engineering guide (Architectural Energy Corp.) whose air-only definition of passive cooling documents the institutional mainstream that excluded water-…
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- Cooling with Night Air — Steve Baer (SUNPAPER, 1984) · 2026-07-18
- US5513696A — Passive Temperature Regulating System for a Building (Baer, 1995) · 2026-07-18
- Zomeworks-Baer Double Play Container Shelter — Description (David Harrison) · 2026-10-18
- SolarFool Marketing Media (CoolSky / Cool Cell) · 2026-07-18
- US Patent 4,293,030A — Method of and means for passively cooling a shelter containing a heat source · 2026-07-19
- Baer Battery Cabinet Patent Series (1989–1997) · 2026-07-18
- Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems: 35 Years of Serious Commotion · 2026-10-05
- Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems: 50 Years of Serious Commotion · 2026-10-05