#thermosiphon
11 articles · 14 raw sources · 1 inventory
Maker of the unglazed selective-surface stainless steel absorber Baer tested on his shower system and used in the Zomeworks container prototype schematic.
Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology, which published Kayatekin's 2025 paper on Steve Baer and the double-play thermosiphon.
Zomeworks' passive climate-control system connecting ceiling water reservoirs to roof-mounted radiator/absorbers by thermosiphon, cooling buildings without electricity, refrigerant…
Zomeworks' thermosiphon-based passive heating/cooling product line — the subject of Baer's 2004 shareholder pitch, Davis's studio installation, the Los Ranchos container proposal, …
Zomeworks' unglazed collector panel product, used by Bruce Davis in Double Play installations and cited in Baer's 2003 unglazed collectors article for delivering warm showers throu…
Kayatekin's 2025 ICON paper — the first academic work to establish the Baer House and Zomeworks in international scholarship, calling the thermosiphon Baer's broadly overlooked cen…
Baer's patented closed-loop convective device (US 3,618,569) that keeps an ice hole open for livestock — the conceptual seed of the double-play thermosiphon lineage.
NMSEA's newsletter, a recurring venue for Baer's late-career writing including the unglazed-collectors article (March/April 2003) and the thermosiphon shower field test.
Baer's March 2003 SunPaper article arguing that unglazed collectors beat glazed ones near ambient temperature and introducing the parking-lot IR thermometer lesson.
Rambach/Ormat Turbines 1981 patent documenting a pure passive dual-thermosiphon loop cooling a ~2 cubic meter telecom shelter — the closest real precedent for miniature thermosipho…
1994 Passive Cooling System patent that moved the radiator to the roof with symmetric parallel conduits for balanced thermosiphon flow.
Inventory
The team needs to know whether water moves freely enough through Duxberry tank internal spaces to support passive thermosiphon circulation — Jose thinks probably yes, but this is u…
Raw sources
- Sunspots: Collected Facts and Solar Fiction — Steve Baer (1975) · 2026-07-18
- US5513696A — Passive Temperature Regulating System for a Building (Baer, 1995) · 2026-07-18
- Double Plays — Old and New · 2026-07-18
- It's Not Rocket Science #5: Night Sky Radiant Cooling · 2026-07-19
- Double Play Container — Follow-up Photos and Zomeworks Schematic · 2026-07-18
- Zomeworks-Baer Double Play Container Shelter — Description (David Harrison) · 2026-10-18
- Double Play Container — As-Built Design Drawings (David Harrison, 10 sheets) · 2026-10-18
- Simple evaporative+radiation cooling panel · 2026-07-19
- Double Play Installation — Photos · 2025-01-01
- Thermosiphon plumbing practicalities (check valves, pipe sizing, air locks) · 2026-07-19
- 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
- Heat and mass transfer for a small diameter thermosyphon with low fill ratio · 2026-07-19
- On the Impact of Aspect Ratio and Other Geometric Effects on the Stability of Rectangular Thermosiphons · 2026-07-19