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Follow the ACI National Home Performance Conference on Twitter at #ACI12
Looks like a lot of pros are at ACI National! Follow the ACI National Home Performance Conference on Twitter using #ACI12. Here's what they're saying right now:
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#ACI12 heat pump water heaters most efficient for big water users. The less hot water you use the less benefit from energy efficiency. #ACI12 heat pump savings of 20-40% are compared against std electric heaters. Savings are lower if compared to gas heaters.#ACI12 heat pump water heater study shows 20-40% energy savings and no measurable reduction in peak power demand
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- How well do you understand thermal comfort? If you work on homes, here's an intro to ASHRAE Standard 55. http://hub.am/HlL8CQ
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#ACI12 tweets in the last half hour have been about the Internet marketing 201 session with Peter & Allison haha#EverblueACI - Peter Troast is Energy Circle founder. Allison Bailes is the founder & owner of
@EnergyVanguard.#ACI12#EverblueACI - Excited to watch the SEO dream team (Peter Troast & Allison Bailes) in room 338.
#ACI12#EverblueACI - DeMaine: We are working toward self-reporting on CEUs.
#ACI12 - Vikki Murphy says CEUs are available for any training program that promotes the house-as-a-system mentality.
#ACI12
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#Greenhomes is the number one search description of an EE home. Must be all those tote bags in#Baltimore#aci12@EnergyCircle- Energy audit is still a higher volume search engine keyword than energy assessment
#aci12#energycircle - BPI 2400 limits common biases that lead to high modeled energy consumption in inefficient homes
#aci12#bpi Don't forget before you leave #ACI12 to order your audio proceedings from the conference! Couldn't make it? acinational.org/audiohttp://hootsuite.com/acinational.org/audio
RT @HomeEnergyMag: Thanks to Joe Kuonen for another great house of horrors tour at #ACI12: kerosene lanterns and paint cans stored in #HVAC returns?!
Getting ready for the final day of the #ACI12 Nat'l Home Performance Conf in Baltimore! Thanks for making this the best year yet!
Congrats to @EnergyCircle's Peter Troast - our winner of the poster session contest at #ACI12!
RT @HomeEnergyMag: On my way home from #ACI12 w a few takeaways--Roderick Jackson w ORNL: As the home size increases, energy cost awareness decreases!
RT @HomeEnergyMag: Thanks to Joe Kuonen for another great house of horrors tour at #ACI12: kerosene lanterns and paint cans stored in #HVAC returns?!
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Home Energy Magazine
@HomeEnergyMag- Congrads to Dave Robinson. Honored by BPI w/the Tony Woods Award
@#ACI12 - Darryl Hannah speaking at
#aci12: reframe the American dream from bigger is better--living in super-sized homes--to a more human scale. - David Lee
#aci12 Tale of 2 Planets: Venus further from the sun w atmosphere temp 800F mostly CO2. Earth shld b -60F but is 59F b/c 1% CO2. - Amy Fazio
#ACI12: It’s time to align our efforts, interests & direction to get real results. Feedback @ http://acinational.org/summit-survey@ACIadvancing - Suzanne Shelton
#aci12: homeowners don't know that@ENERGYSTAR brand has anything to do w homes.@ENERGYSTARHomes goes beyond appliances. - Alexis Karolides w RMI
#aci12--roadmap to coal free future by 2050: 8200 bldg retrofits/day or one a day in every US city. Can do!#energy - Alexis Karolides w RMI
#aci12: our cars have gained weight faster than the avg American. Overweight cars use more#energy! - RT
@IntlCodeCouncil: ASHRAE Standards Added to Digital Library http://bit.ly/wAEmxJ#energy - Gov Martin O'Malley speaks to
#ACI12 Home Energy Leadership Summit. Chk out his success: Smart#Energy Investment Map http://energy.maryland.gov/map/
- Congrads to Dave Robinson. Honored by BPI w/the Tony Woods Award
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The Snell Group
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@energyvanguard: View from the front:@EnergyCircle talking about Internet marketing at#ACI12. http://twitpic.com/92ys5v - Matt is currently presenting "Successful Warm-Weather Infrared Inspections" http://ow.ly/9U1eL
#aci12 - Did you heard about the iPad Heat Issue? The Snell Group's Roy Huff weighs in on IRTalk http://j.mp/H3vThT
#thermalimaging#ipad3 - Join us at 3:30 during
#aci12 for our presentation "Successful Warm-Weather Infrared Inspections" http://ow.ly/9U1eL - Great
#infrared Q's from everyone. Stop by and talk to us, booth #411#ACI12 So you don't get lost >> expo hall map! :) http://ow.ly/9X45i - Snell instructor Matt Schwoegler answers questions at
#aci12. Come on by to chat about#infrared at booth #411 http://twitpic.com/92u5q4
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@EnergyVanguard: Radiant barriers have value in uninsulated attics. The more insulation, the less value they have. Marcus Bianchi#ACI12 - Radiant barriers taking a beating at
#ACI12 myth busters sesh. Yes, in all climates. - A lot of laughter in this room. RT
@EnergyVanguard: The myth busters at#ACI12: http://twitpic.com/92llxk @sammychu@DianeFerington Please--what is, and who's concept is, HP 2.0?#aci12- Trust in a specific contractor is the second most important driver of retrofits (1 is savings desire) in PA Energy Works program
#aci12 - Yes. RT
@sammychu: Do credentials matter?#aci12 - Nice job by
@retrofitbmore laying out the formula they use for driving community based retrofit programs#aci12 - Daryl Hannah
@dhlovelife: "it’s your job to make people understand that effiiciency is real. Keep it simple." All about communication#aci12 - Daryl Hannah
@dhlovelife "all these terms--eco, green etc--piss people off. There’s a lack of integrity. People give up"#aci12 - RT
@sammychu: Glad@dhlovelife (Daryl Hannah) realizes that#aci12 is the key to saving civilization, about time someone did - Refreshing, franklly, to hear DOE's David Lee pulling no punches on the criticality of climate change
#aci12 - David Lee of DOE: the low income weatherization program has retrofitted 680000 homes = $6.97 billion in energy savings
#aci12 - Congrats John! RT
@SaturnOnline: BPI Hall of Fame awardee! John Krigger. Congrats my friend. - Hooray for Dave Robinson
@GrnRthDave--this yr's Tony Woods Award winner. Master of the foreclosed home deep energy retrofit#aci12 @A_Siegel Never enough architects at#aci12. cc:#Architecture2030- Darrell Hannah's twitter handle is
@dhlovelife. She needs a boost to get as many followers as@EnergyCircle#aci12 - Few moments from Darrell Hannah's keynote at
#aci12. Here's her DHLoveLife website just mentioned: http://bit.ly/10v5Gi
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Jeremy Begley cincienergy
- #aci12 passive home standards are performance based standards.. There are no prescriptive paths
- #aci12 BS-building science not the other one..
- #aci12 passive house principles is just taking our BS principles to the next level
- #aci12 in retrofit using passive house principles we have saw some pretty amazing results
- #aci12 passive projects can have a "lighthouse effect" people see what is possible and try to implement some of the principles.
- #aci12 Answer - thats will be harder than new construction...
- #aci12 is it possible to apply passive home principles to EB?
- #aci12 with low energy cost in America nothing is going to happen.
- #aci12 fastest way to take passive house mainstream is put 500% tax on natural gas.
- #aci12 take the (passive) principles not the concept mainstream
- #aci12 if net zero is the future passive homes are a mechanism to get there.
- #aci12 passive homes are one of the moments of redefinition in our industry...
- #aci12 this is a packaged concept people can wrap their arms around #passivehouses
- #aci12 radiation effect on market... Few achieve certification 100s come close.
- #aci12 Americans don't think in a 50 yr economic life span
- #aci12 the economic mind will stay away from it because right now heat is cheap
- #aci12 Answer #3- because it is concise and holistic and there is no down side
- #aci12 Answer 2- capturing the imagination of the public.
- #aci12 Answer #1- Climate Change
- #aci12 question- why should Americans buy into Passive Homes?
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