Abstract: A system, process and article of manufacture includes the generation of a “BIG Data” set of searchable submissions of biographical and/or physical identity inputs by interested persons with knowledge of deceased third parties; or by self-disclosing individuals to be released either during the lifetime of the submitter (Inter-Vivos) or Post Mortem (PM), each knowing that the consequent anonymous Big Data set comprised of all released submissions will be made accessible to researchers. Submissions are solicited via proprietary questionnaires, developed and rigorously validated using established techniques in behavioral science, statistics and informatics. Since data contained in questionnaire(s) enters the proprietary Big Data set if and when the subject of the questionnaire is dead, a key element of the process is the opportunity for living family members or friends to complete an initial proprietary questionnaire to preserve for the deceased a “Continuity of Identity.

Abstract: An evacuated solar thermal conductive device including a conductive heat receiving element having a heat receiving surface and a heat sink portion disposed away from the heat receiving surface. A heat resistant enclosure that includes a top encasing that is at least partially transparent, and a bottom encasing that is joined to the top encasing to create an airtight seal. The bottom encasing having a cavity for receiving at least part of the heat receiving element such that at least part of the heat sink portion is in direct contact with the bottom encasing. A vacuum is provided in a space within the enclosure between at least a part of the heat receiving surface and the top encasing. Solar energy is transmitted to the heat receiving surface through the transparent top encasing and is transferred through the heat receiving element to the heat sink portion.