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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Stretching zones allows... buildings of different shapes using the same kinds of components.

Zome Primer (1970)

We’ve built two greenhouses utilizing the beadwall, and our test results show... it will do much of the heating and cooling required by an average office building or home.

Steve Baer’s Beadwall Insulated Window Panels (1974)

The tendency is not to care about spending somebody else's money—so even at this time when we're supposed to be conserving energy we're instituting policies that make people conserve less.

Solar pioneer persists, without federal handout (1980)

Zomes can cluster together like soap bubbles. Their zones can be stretched, shrunk, or omitted completely to make the various zomes' different shapes and sizes. The zomes can also pack several layers deep.

Zome Primer (1970)

[W]ith its unique construction—there are never any air leaks.

Steve Baer’s Beadwall Insulated Window Panels (1974)

Why wouldn't it be fair to expand the slice—4% (1973—Bureau of Mines) given to hydroelectric power by a similar factor of efficiency—for the solar energy consumed in raising the water to its working head?

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

We've gone too far in letting the government into our affairs...

Solar pioneer persists, without federal handout (1980)

We started making playground climbers–using the 31–zone truss which is... explained in the Zome Primer –and... we were working on solar heating experiments.

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

Now that the experts have started this infantile accounting system, which evidently finds us... independent of the sun, solar energy will be admitted only so long as it has been properly collected, stored and transferred.

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

If you... ride and graze a horse... the horse's energy... does not appear on anyone's energy accounting.

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

The great problem with movable insulation is cracks. A door, shutter, or curtain is placed... The optimist notes the R value... but does not achieve it.

Movable Insulation (1976)

Zonohedra have bands of parallel edges. Any such band... can be stretched to alter the shape of the zonohedron. Stretching the band... does not alter any angles.

Zome Primer (1970)

At one time an individual could fix everything in his life with his thumb nail or his teeth. ...I believe the ground rules can be transformed so that technology simplifies life instead of continually complicating it.

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

Attribution

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