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[I]t is very important to examine what the limits of an accounting system are—to know what the numbers and quantities... really mean. - Steve Baer
" "[I]t is very important to examine what the limits of an accounting system are—to know what the numbers and quantities... really mean.
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(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. He took a number of solar power patents, wrote a number of books and publicized his work. Baer served on the board of directors of the U.S. Section of the , and on the board of the New Mexico Association. He was the founder, chairman of the board, president, and director of research at Zomeworks Corporation. He was the creator of Zome architecture as well as one of creators of , a construction set educational toy or device that had evolved from playground climbers and other structures that had been created by Zomeworks.
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Steve C. Baer
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S.C. Baer
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Peter Van Dresser... built a solar heater here in New Mexico in 1956 or '58. We published his book, Landscape for Humans. One of the greatest forces... has been Harold Hay from California. ...I ...heard him in ’68 at the Solar Energy Conference. I had... a design and... modest success... Harold showed everyone... dead simple methods of doing the same job. He... completely changed my head around on how to attack these problems. ...[W]e’ve worked together a lot since then trying to bring some reforms into the Solar Society.
Some of our hardware is getting pretty good, but it... doesn’t make economic sense for most people. ...[O]ur zomes and heaters and so forth do not yet compete on a dollar basis with... conventional counterparts. It’s very exciting intellectually to work with these ideas but their validity will not really be proven until they start to replace... things they’re meant to replace.
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