Forrest Meggers

Thermal avenger and director of CHAOS at Princeton School of Architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

[Forrest Meggers @ForrestCHAOS]

@Verizon thanks for the big SOS... Did your non-net-neutrality position finally kill you ... hopefully

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@Z0ltanNagy @CorsIAQ Please let it be that there should be no indoor air in Hawaii. The climate requires absolutely no indoor AC … just a vestige of all the bad modern architecture. Go read Design with Climate and open some windows.

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@eliebz @mollyaseltzer And Jyoti! But haven’t we all given up on twitter/X and cyber trucks already?

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@NeginNazarian @IAUrbanClimate @ICUC11Sydney So fun to know there is a cute little sensor in there ! Thanks for taking it! Have fun. Very jealous. I’m currently covered in drywall dust not doing nearly enough urban heat sensing.

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I love that @SlackHQ kicked my research team off and deleted all my guests and team connections when my credit card number changed... all after ONLY emailing me about the problem - I thought slack let me avoid email... come on guys!

[Forrest Meggers @ForrestCHAOS]

@mitchmcewen The jury IS the status quo

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I've finally made it... my research topic made it into XKCD... yay!
https://t.co/vFNnfjK2sG

[Forrest Meggers @ForrestCHAOS]

Built another level of the treehouse out of random washed up pieces of Canadian docks on the shore of Lake Ontario. Good Father’s Day

[Forrest Meggers @ForrestCHAOS]

@zippitydodah51 @Esqueer_ @Target 3. But while I will continue to hate the Buckeyes with a passion, if ever laws or policies that harm buckeye fans were considered, I would root for those buckeye people’s happiness over my irrational ideology.

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@zippitydodah51 @Esqueer_ @Target 2. There are good reasons our irrational unacceptance of other peoples preferences should not drive policy.

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@zippitydodah51 @Esqueer_ @Target Why are there displays aimed at Ohio State Buckeyes fans?

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“Every act of construction is a defiance of nature” - Emilio Ambasz at @PrincetonSoA Kassler lecture. Same day as my construction is celebrated on the home page https://t.co/GuuKDdJV3o. Still couldn’t agree more. Trying to minimize defiance is hard.

[Forrest Meggers @ForrestCHAOS]

@mitchmcewen *has… architecture is a popularity contest not a functionality contest :-P

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@mitchmcewen As we say in iowa. If it doesn’t kill you it makes you stronger ;-P

[Tom Moyer 🇺🇸 @TomMoyerUT]

Norway getting it done electrifying both heating and transportation.

Yes - heat pumps work fine in cold climates.

[Forrest Meggers @ForrestCHAOS]

@EPrinceton @Princeton @AndlingerCenter So much fun making Princeton students good at plumbing.

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to be clear it's not the engineers or the architecta fault, though they could have fought harder against stupidity - it is the project managers and developers that drive a mentality of maximum space and minimal innovation where only first costs matter and on time on budget rules

[Forrest Meggers @ForrestCHAOS]

Sorry @JesseJenkins - even the most efficient buildings have dumb thermostats next to outdoor doors - making this inefficient heater heat this space to 90 degrees while the T-stat set to 70. Better controls such low hanging fruit - for now CHAOS research = turning dumb stuff off

[Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins]

This is not a bad place to work...

[Forrest Meggers @ForrestCHAOS]

If it weren't for the extreme innovation resistance and risk aversion in the building and construction sector I could make our building have half the emissions and be twice as comfortable. #radiant #heating #thermostat

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@StreetArtUtopia I've been looking for this viral video I got during the Bush Jr Election of this contraption and I've never found it again... anyone have the vid of this from ~2000