Steve Baer Quotes

1965–2024 United States

Steve Baer (October 13th, 1938 to May 17th, 2024) was an American inventor and pioneer of passive solar technology. Baer pioneered and helped popularize the use of zomes.

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Skylid, internally louvered skylight operates automatically with no external power source.

The effect of clothes and blankets on heat loss is naturally investigated by everyone.

Movable Insulation (1976)

Five fold symmetry does appear among other symmetries in nature.

Zome Primer (1970)

Treat a glass area like a ship—break it into separate compartments so that a leak in one place won't be fatal.

Movable Insulation (1976)

The Beadwall seems to be the perfect answer for superior insulation against heat loss.

Movable Insulation (1976)

The dodecahedron and the icosahedron are duals of each other—the vertices of one match the face midpoints of the other and vice versa.

Zome Primer (1970)

The design of houses can be stilted by such graphs.

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

There is a mistake-proof flange joint for both A and C connections if one hierarchy is introduced. You must always orient the joint to suit A lines.

Zome Primer (1970)

The forms possible using this system are limitless; there is no attempt here to explore these possibilities—the examples shown are small probings. The booklet describes the mathematics of the process that creates these limitless forms.

Zome Primer (1970)

The icosahedron and the dodecahedron have five fold symmetry. They cannot occur as crystals.

Zome Primer (1970)

The regular polyhedra are like seeds from which growths may appear. They are the connecting joints for the zonohedra.

Zome Primer (1970)

ZW is a privately owned corporation. We are not supported by federal grants. We depend on your business for support.

Solar pioneer persists, without federal handout (1980)

Tests done by thermal decay of a glass aquarium show a U factor of the naked glass of about 1 1/3 and of the glass covered with Nightwall, of about 1/3.

Movable Insulation (1976)

A few years ago Peter Van Dresser mentioned the Clothesline Paradox.

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

Legislation aimed at encouraging the use of solar energy equipment by subsidizing... certain hardware must end by being pathetic and blundering.

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

Solar energy advocates are continuously humiliated by being shown "energy pies." Slices are assigned to coal, gas, oil, hydroelectric and even nuclear. but solar energy is evidently too small to appear.

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

I read this book of Farrington Daniels’, Direct Use of the Sun’s Energy, and it just lit up my brain.

Steve Baer and Holly Baer: Dome Home Enthusiasts (1973)

Movable insulation can... be used to prevent heat gain. ...[T]he best position ...is outside the glass rather than inside.

Movable Insulation (1976)

If you drive to... buy a newspaper the gasoline consumption appears. If you walk—using food energy—the event has disappeared from sight...

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

If you install interior greenhouse lights the electricity... is faithfully recorded. If you grow the plants outside no attempt is made at an accounting.

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Steve Baer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.