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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

FamilyFilesWhat they contribute
Cool Cell / di-thermal roof development10 filesCore 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 notes6 filesBaer’s May 2002 “Storage” essay (4 copies/page scans) plus the shutter-controlled ceiling-storage note (2 copies).
”Night and Day” essay2 filesRadiant framing of night-sky cooling (two copies of the same text).
Pool-heater cooling3 filesRetrofit cooling path (2 pages + 1 alternate-copy stub).
Plate tests2 filesNumerical grounding: Stickney/Baer heated-vs-unheated plate U-values (two copies).
Double play / list attendees2 filesConference 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.

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