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2002 thermal development bundle
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This bundle is the densest part of the archive. It contains the development notes for Cool Cell, Di-thermal roofs, storage, pool-heater cooling, plate testing, double play, and related experiments. Ma
This bundle is the densest part of the archive. It contains the development notes for Cool Cell, Di-thermal roofs, storage, pool-heater cooling, plate testing, double play, and related experiments. Many of the later concept pages come directly out of this year.
What is in this bundle
| Family | Files | What they contribute |
|---|---|---|
| Cool Cell / di-thermal roof development | 10 files | Core system evolution: roll-formed aluminum roof diagram, operating-modes schematic, “Work Leading Up” pages, Di-thermal roof text (with Ed Allen’s radiant-systems quote) and 3 figure scans. |
| Storage and cloudy-day notes | 6 files | Baer’s May 2002 “Storage” essay (4 copies/page scans) plus the shutter-controlled ceiling-storage note (2 copies). |
| ”Night and Day” essay | 2 files | Radiant framing of night-sky cooling (two copies of the same text). |
| Pool-heater cooling | 3 files | Retrofit cooling path (2 pages + 1 alternate-copy stub). |
| Plate tests | 2 files | Numerical grounding: Stickney/Baer heated-vs-unheated plate U-values (two copies). |
| Double play / list attendees | 2 files | Conference attendee list and John Solso’s “Double Plays: Old and New” article. |
Several families contain alternate copies of the same document rather than distinct texts, and the “Work Leading Up (Page 1)” scan is mislabeled — it actually carries a continuation of “Night and Day.”
Why it matters
hardware experiments + storage variants + measurement notes = the engineering core
The bundle is a raw-source summary, not a conclusion page. It preserves provenance for the file family and points to the compiled concept pages that already distill the ideas.