#radiative-cooling

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ETH Zurich 2026-08-01

Swiss technical university where Baer studied engineering and metal welding after his US Army service in Germany.

i2Cool 2026-08-01

Commercial radiative-cooling company named by MIT Technology Review (Dec 2025) as an active player.

National lab whose radiative-cooling-panel example was covered by EESI in August 2025.

Publication whose December 2025 article on radiative cooling coatings names active commercial players and cites 15-20% AC energy reductions from pilot coatings.

Planck Energies 2026-08-01

Commercial radiative-cooling company named by MIT Technology Review (Dec 2025) as an active player.

SkyCool Systems 2026-08-01

Commercial radiative-cooling company named by MIT Technology Review (Dec 2025) as an active player in the current passive-cooling wave.

Spacecool 2026-08-01

Commercial radiative-cooling company named by MIT Technology Review (Dec 2025) as an active player.

Carolina Dayer 2026-08-01

Co-editor of Activism in Architecture: Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design (Routledge, 2018).

Margot McDonald 2026-08-01

Co-editor of Activism in Architecture: Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design (Routledge, 2018), which contains Baer's chapter on Harold Hay's influence.

Rio Grande Valley 2026-08-01

South Texas region about 220 miles from San Antonio, hotter and more humid on average, on which the cat-shelter experiment's initial climate research was mistakenly based.

2018 Routledge volume (eds. McDonald & Dayer) for which Baer wrote the chapter 'Harold Hay's influence and the Zomeworks Corporation', formally acknowledging Hay as an upstream inf…

Night and Day 2026-08-01

Baer's 2002 essay arguing that surfaces, not air, do the real work of nighttime cooling by radiating heat directly to space — the foundational text for the archive's thermal vision…

Raspberry Pi Zero 2026-08-01

Low-cost single-board computer at the heart of the archive's reusable off-grid sensor and logging rig for small passive-thermal experiments.

US Patent 4,913,985 2026-08-01

1990 Battery Temperature Regulation System patent, the first in the Cool Cell lineage, which commercially proved night-sky radiative cooling in telephone-company battery cabinets.

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