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Steve Baer
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“This booklet had first an elementary explanation of the geometry of Zonohedra, then a more difficult account of the growths of the thirty-one zone star. This system, based on the 31 lines that pass through the center of an and either a vertex, edge midpoint of face midpoint is new and unusual.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have applied for a patent on this structural system. The patent is assigned to Zomeworks Corporation. The predecessors of this system are the octet truss and the MERO space grid system. The relative potentials of these systems are discussed briefly by a comparison of their geometric possibilities.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The forms possible using this system are limitless; there is no attempt here to explore these possibilities—the examples shown are small probings. The booklet describes the mathematics of the process that creates these limitless forms.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Zomes can cluster together like soap bubbles. Their zones can be stretched, shrunk, or omitted completely to make the various zomes' different shapes and sizes. The zomes can also pack several layers deep.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The , because of its shape and the arrangement of its structural members is extremely strong, but its uses are limited because of the inflexibility of its shape. It is always part of a sphere... any variation would destroy the structural properties... It is complicated in structure and simple in shape. Zomes are simple in structure and complicated in shape.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The regular polyhedra are like seeds from which growths may appear. They are the connecting joints for the zonohedra.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Zonohedra have bands of parallel edges. Any such band... can be stretched to alter the shape of the zonohedron. Stretching the band... does not alter any angles.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Stretching zones allows... buildings of different shapes using the same kinds of components.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The and the are duals of each other—the vertices of one match the face midpoints of the other and vice versa.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The icosahedron and the dodecahedron have five fold symmetry. They cannot occur as crystals.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Five fold symmetry does appear among other symmetries in nature.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[[w:Recursion|[R]ecursive]] growth... In the case of... five fold symmetry there isn't uniformity. ...Instead of reproducing itself... it becomes steadily more intricate.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The coherence proof demonstrates that if one builds a structure using the A and B lines of the 31 zone star (...C lines ...used only within ...forms defined by ...A and B lines) and always follow the rule... no matter how far or intricately one builds, two extensions of two entirely different limbs of the same structure can always be locked back together in a perfect fit with a combination of our simple parts.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have associated the thirty-one zone star throughout with the icosahedron and... dodecahedron. It also fits perfectly with the three smaller regular polyhedra. The , the and the fit inside the icosahedron and... dodecahedron. Their vertices touch a vertex, an edge midpoint or a face midpoint of the larger figure. This regular match... positions the smaller figure so that regular patterns on the large figure project inwards as regular patterns on the small figure. In each case either five or ten small figures fit at once within the larger...”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each of the regular polyhedra is thus a convenient core from which to define the regular thirty-one zone star. The geometric regularities insure simplicity in the connections. Any one of the regular polyhedra can be used with the same pattern of flanges or holes on each of its faces as a connector for the thirty-one zone structural system.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The joint must... be strong and inexpensive. If the joint is a ball and the A, B and C connections are... holes which the members screw into... holes of the same type... and the ends of all structural members are identical. ...[Y]ou can't make mistakes...”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a mistake-proof flange joint for both A and C connections if one hierarchy is introduced. You must always orient the joint to suit A lines.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I went to in Massachusetts for a couple of years and I went to UCLA for a year or two and then I went back to Amherst... I never quite fit... that... college thing. ...I joined the Army in 1960 and got married and Holly and I went to Germany... after I got out of the Army, I went to school in .”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Holly had... toys made from polyhedra and she built one of these things and... it... blew my mind... I... found some mathematics books that described the geometry of polyhedra and convex figures. This wasn't too difficult since I had always been fascinated by math. It was the subject I had spent the most time on in school and... was studying at the time.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[W]e left and... moved to Albuquerque where I worked as a surveyor and... welding trailer frames for Fruehof and Holly had a job and we didn’t spend much... I began to experiment more and more with structures.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I found out that the people at were building domes and I went up there and helped... Then they came down and helped me. ...We built the first structures from car tops. We chopped the tops out of over a thousand cars... ...[W]e paid 25 cents apiece for them. ...They’re a good building material ...except that getting stuff from junkyards ...is ...bad for your ...mentality. You... become a parasite on something you criticize... You’re feeding on something you hate.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We built and did solar heating experiments... solar heated a dome in 1967 with a big chimney—a rock storage bin—down the side of a hill. Many of those first things didn’t... work... well. I didn’t know what I was doing.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I read this book of ’, Direct Use of the Sun’s Energy, and it just lit up my brain.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you start experimenting with, say, solar heating by covering collectors with glass or plastic and feeling the warm air blow out of them... well, it’s so exciting that you just get hooked and can’t stop.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[W]e started Zomeworks. Barry Hickman and Ed Heinz and I issued stock like a corporation and got a lawyer... [I]t was quite an abrupt change from just casually working together on a project the way we had before.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We started making playground climbers–using the 31–zone truss which is... explained in the Zome Primer –and... we were working on solar heating experiments.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Right after we started Zomeworks, Day Chahroudi came out from California. He’d read the Dome Cookbook and he came walking up the road one afternoon with a rucksack on his back. ...[W]hen he started telling me his ideas about how things worked—physics ...I was so impressed by his ...approach to engineering problems that I persuaded him to stay ...He did and ...soon he developed a solar tracker... very simple and easy to build.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So many... good ideas... worked... but they couldn’t keep working. Some of the first buildings we put up weren’t good buildings because they leaked. Many of those first solar heaters weren’t... very good...”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[W]e haven’t had the money... to tool up to manufacture the parts for the playground climbers on a competitive basis. The people... simply can’t afford to buy them. ...[T]hey just can’t hold their own in the market and so we’re not building them anymore.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to build buildings and design systems that are beautiful and simple and that really work. ...It’s not ...exotic or earthshaking to fill 55-gallon drums with water, paint them black and place them in the walls of a home for use as solar collectors ...but it works.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he philosophical tactics and... approach taken by the giant corporations and... power groups miss the point... A pencil can break on you and you can sharpen it with your thumbnail and go right on... but if a circuit board or a resistor or condenser quits somewhere inside this recorder, we’re stopped and there’s probably not a lot we can do about it. ...[Y]et we increasingly use tape recorders instead of pencils.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At one time an individual could fix everything in his life with his thumb nail or his teeth. ...I believe the ground rules can be transformed so that technology simplifies life instead of continually complicating it.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't think that building everything out of stones and living in animal skins is necessarily... healthier... I'm saying... life can be much more satisfying for an individual if he feels that he is in control of his destiny... Society and the tools of society, should be organized to give each one of us that feeling.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[W]hen I was... 18 I... read... Lewis Mumford and... [saw] that... we could have a science and technology... understood and controlled by the individual instead of the other way around. ...I've been trying to crack the crap in science for 15 or 16 years now.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[W]hen you're experimenting, about 80% of the ideas you try are failures... But we put all these concepts together and they performed the first time. ...[W]e had pretested most of the ideas we incorporated into this [our] home. We'd never used aluminum-skinned, honeycomb-cored structural sandwiches and... no one had... fabricated a complete building from the material... but every architectural and engineering book mentions the possibility... The 55-gallon, water-filled drums... [W]e... knew the amounts of energy... such... could pick up.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he beadwall insulated window panels... this wonderful invention of David C. Harrison’s... a kind of super curtain that... transform[s] a clear dual-panel of glass into an opaque, well-insulated wall and back again.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We’ve built two greenhouses utilizing the beadwall, and our test results show... it will do much of the heating and cooling required by an average office building or home.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[W]ith its unique construction—there are never any air leaks.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[I]f folks don’t like the idea once they’ve given it the once-over, we’ll be glad to buy the plans back at the full $15.00 purchase price.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A few years ago Peter Van Dresser mentioned the Clothesline Paradox.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Solar energy advocates are continuously humiliated by being shown "energy pies." Slices are assigned to coal, gas, oil, hydroelectric and even nuclear. but is evidently too small to appear.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you... remove the electric clothes dryer and install a clothesline the consumption of electricity drops slightly, but there is no credit given anywhere on the charts and graphs to solar energy which is now drying clothes.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[C]oal, oil and natural gas are all solar energy products... and hydroelectric power is solar energy...”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The graphs which demonstrate a huge dependence on fossil fuels are fine in one respect. They are alarming. But they are... [m]isleading... [in] that they blind people to obvious answers and prime them to a frenzy of effort in poor directions. Attention... to such... trains people to attempt to deliver what is shown in these accounting systems rather than what is needed.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you... ride and graze a horse... the horse's energy... does not appear on anyone's energy accounting.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you install interior greenhouse lights the electricity... is faithfully recorded. If you grow the plants outside no attempt is made at an accounting.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you drive to... buy a newspaper the gasoline consumption appears. If you walk—using food energy—the event has disappeared from sight...”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The 's energy study shows the U.S.'s energy consumption in 1968 at... 62 quadrillion BTU ...[T]he average daily caloric intake is... 10,000 BTU/day/person—about 1.2% of the total consumption listed by the Bureau of Mines. But this... doesn't appear... on the graphs. Nuclear energy with 1% does... The food is solar energy. Why is it not included?”
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