A 2006 state-funded report by Mark Chalom Architect (with Bristol Stickney and Kate Snider) for Governor Richardson's Water Innovation Fund. The report quantifies the potential of night sky radiant cooling (NSRC) to replace evaporative coolers and air conditioners across New Mexico's 11 climate zones.
The baseline system uses:
This is essentially the same architecture described in the archive's pool-heater cooling and radiant cooling design brief pages — the report provides independent field data supporting Baer's claims.
The report explicitly cites Steve Baer and Zomeworks:
"Steve Baer of Zomeworks, inspired by Harold Hay's Skytherm Designs, has been [developing] technologies as the Cool Cell as well as the Double Play Solar Heating and Cooling System."
It includes thermal performance data for Baer's Double Play system and references the 2002 Albuquerque conference where Baer discussed heating and cooling with unglazed radiator/absorbers. The NSRC presentation (.ppt) and worksheet (.xls) are companion files — the presentation summarizes the findings and the worksheet is a calculator for projecting savings by climate zone.
The study tested panels of various materials (aluminum, copper, plastic) and configurations. Key variables:
This is the only source in the archive that provides government-funded, independently measured field data for the night-sky radiative cooling principle. It validates the claims made in the archive's concept pages with two summers of actual radiator testing and statewide projections. It also demonstrates that the pool-heater-as-radiator idea works at scale — not just as a Zomeworks experiment, but as a state-level energy strategy.