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Fortunat Mueller

@42knot.bsky.social
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Electrification, Renewable energy, employee ownership, B corp, Impact investing, WMRJ, Maine, sailing, fatherhood and other occasional nonsense . #energysky (Co-founder and CEO @ ReVision Energy)

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LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 17h
In Switzerland, heavy trucks are now more electric than passenger cars. Over the last 12 months: 28.0% of new heavy trucks were BEV 26.5% of new cars A year ago trucks were at 19%, so that's a huge jump. And buses are even further ahead at 48%.
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Fortunat Mueller @42knot.bsky.social · 11h
It was only a matter of time til it became clear what the grift is in these talks. We have no State Dept. In 2026 US diplomacy is exclusively about self enrichment and kleptocracy.
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 11h
We know Susan Collins would vote for Trump’s nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Alito. And Mainers can prevent that by voting for Troy Jackson. #mepolitics www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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Fortunat Mueller @42knot.bsky.social · 23h
And if you get that heat pump installed before 12/31 Efficiency Maine will give you an EXTRA $500 rebate, in addition to their normal $1,000 (or $3,000 for low income customers). Please don't freeze this winter, electrify!
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Since the Hormuz crisis, EU gas prices are up 132% and oil 52%. Electricity is up 44%, after falling through spring. Every boiler, car and furnace that switches to electricity is less exposed to the energy crisis. Electrification is increasingly energy security.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The latest surge in fossil-fuel prices means it is now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car, shows @carbonbrief.org analysis." www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs... via @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org and Ho Woo Nam 🔌💡
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Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK  - Carbon Brief
The latest surge in fossil-fuel prices means it is now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car, shows Carbon Brief analysis.
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Fortunat Mueller @42knot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A virtual power plant hidden in Vermont homes is keeping the lights on during storms share.google/VJ9gwXC2851u...
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A virtual power plant hidden in Vermont homes is keeping the lights on during storms
Spread across thousands of ordinary homes, this "power plant" has become Vermont's largest power source. It's protecting owners from outages and providing cheaper, cleaner energy.
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Jonathan Cohen @jonathancohen.us · 29/09/2026
Excited to see @governor.ny.gov sign the Students for Solar Act into law. This will help more schools go solar, reduce energy costs, and keep resources focused on students. Huge credit to Students for Climate Action, @senatorharckham.bsky.social, and Assemblywoman Judy Griffin for getting this done.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've never liked ICE. Even back when they used to call themselves the Klan.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 27/09/2026
So gas is getting more expensive, and Trump is making cars less fuel-efficient. Brilliant strategy.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 27/09/2026
Great policy idea to weaken fuel economy standards exactly when gas prices are highest, really chef’s kiss
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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (Gift Article)
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Fortunat Mueller @42knot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Collins hiding behind her own lack of agency is making a strong case for sending Jackson to the Senate in her place.
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John Doffing @johndoffing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims . . . " BAZINGA MULLIGANS SHAZAM MAGA-MAGA MULLIGAN MAINE
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Jeff Seidman (he/him) @jeffsseidman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Really valuable thread puts lots of data points together into a powerful picture.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Taxpayers: If you're currently dropping coins in old coffee cans & kitchen drawers to pay for, say, gas or something you hope is actually beef, don't forget to add enough to pay your share of the $6 million Trump is spending on gold leaf for the vulgar ballroom he's thinking about instead of you.
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Fortunat Mueller @42knot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Secretary of Energy is a moron. "Every day, actually, the sun goes down, it doesn’t produce power at all,” he said. 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/c...
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At a Times Event, Dueling Visions on Climate Change and A.I.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Trump administration does not want to ban U.S. diesel exports to curb high prices.
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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 22/09/2026
9/22 BREAKING NEWS: ProPublica reported Tuesday that the FBI's anti-corruption unit was investigating an alleged bribery scheme involving Maine Senator Susan Collins. Full story: www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susa… #maine #MEpolitics
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026
I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Susan Collins casts tie-breaking vote to advance Trump judge nominee who was on the board of an anti-abortion pregnancy crisis center (!); and in his confirmation wouldn't say who won the 2020 election or talk about Jan 6. Would be above-the-fold news if Maine media did its job. #MEpolitics
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
well known in Maine media that even mild criticism of Collins leads to angry phone calls - often from her: "Whenever I talk to political communications staffers from out of state they are always amazed how resistant the legacy Maine media is to reporting anything negative about Collins’ record"
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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Of course" she'll vote for a "pro-life" candidate who wants to kick tens of thousands of people off the health care and food assistance, who wants ICE agents at polling places, who thinks Sharia Law is a real threat, and who harassed a Somali-American legislator www.pressherald.com/2026/09/10/o...
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‘Of course I’m going to be voting for Bobby Charles,’ says Susan Collins
Collins' statement comes 1 day after Charles' sister endorsed his Democratic opponent.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
All the plastic humanity has ever produced is ~10 billion tonnes. Humans emitted ~10 billion tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere in the first three months of 2026. When we appreciate orders of magnitude, we see how intractable the CO₂ problem becomes once we dump it into the atmosphere.
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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Susan Collins likes to say she brings home the bacon. But in helping to advance the Big Beautiful Bill, she cost Maine $675 million more than all her earmarks combined. And that’s before counting her other (in)actions #mepolitics www.mecep-action.org/senator-coll...
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Senator Collins is Costing Maine
Over 10 years, Senator Collins brought Maine $3.45 billion. Her vote to advance Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) will cost Maine $4.125 billion.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
House Republicans failed to muster the necessary votes to back a proposed constitutional amendment that would set membership of SCOTUS at nine, although they did remind everyone that the number of justices is not enshrined in the Constitution and can be amended at any time by statute.
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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 24/08/2026
Why investment profit is at the center of CMP’s rate hike
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Why investment profit is at the center of CMP’s rate hike
Maine's biggest electric utility and consumer advocates are at odds over how much money the company should be allowed to make on its infrastructure investments.
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Fortunat Mueller @42knot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The Maine Chamber of Commerce does NOT speak for Maine businesses, and never has. They represent big corporate power and greed, not hard working Maine business and workers. This endorsement is unsurprising, but still embarrassing for anyone involved.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 21/08/2026
The Limits to growth report to The @clubofrome.org was published in 1972. After Europe's largest gas field (2,740 billion m³!) was discovered in the Netherlands and our coal mines closed. Many found it hard to believe limits to growth of fossil fuels were real. But here we are. Norway is next
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century
U.S. debt is on track to reach historic levels
Debt held by the public as a percentage of the gross domestic product, 1792-2055
- Historical - • Projected → Without Bush and Trump tax cuts
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Source: Authors' calculations using data from the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve, the Yale Budget Lab, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. A full list of sources is available here.
Chart: Center for American Progress
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Fortunat Mueller @42knot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Super excited that the inimitable Lorenzo Kristov is doing this webinar with E2 Tech next week. It is a great opportunity for people who care about Maine's energy future to learn from one of the leading thinkers on the future of the grid. www.e2tech.org/events/commu...
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Community Power Webinar with Lorenzo Kristov | E2Tech
World-renowned energy systems expert Lorenzo Kristov joins E2Tech for a virtual conversation on building a 21st century electricity system that is affordable, equitable, resilient, less environmentall...
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yellowschwinn.bsky.social @yellowschwinn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#mepolitics
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16/08/2026
North Korea is supplying Iran with the weapons it is using to kill Americans. Trump is an enemy of the United States. www.military.com/feature/2026...
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North Korea’s Rogue Strategic Pipeline Arming Iran's War Effort: Exclusive Interview
Iran’s missiles hitting U.S. and partner forces may trace back to an overlooked source: North Korea. In a Military.com exclusive, expert Bruce Bechtol explains the alliance.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Susan Collins sent $70,000,000,000 to a lawless Trump paramilitary after it had spent a year terrorizing Maine and other states. She doesn't get to feign surprise when they use that blank check to buy torture devices. #MEpolitics
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 16/08/2026
Dear readers, the correct figure is 0.4%. Nearly 100x less. www.varsity.co.uk/features/29235
While the proportion of BAME professors has increased from 7.1% in 2016 to 9.4% in 2022, progress remains slow and uneven. Asian academics form the majority within this category, while Black academics remain critically underrepresented at 0.4%. White staff continue to dominate senior roles, shaping hiring and promotion
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.
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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
He kept Trump out of prison. He built a $1.776 billion fund he would not keep insurrectionists out of. He buried it the second it cost him a promotion. Tomorrow Susan Collins decides if he runs the Justice Department. Flood her office. #mepolitics
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I'm starting to suspect that my tax dollars are going to munitions I'll never use, either
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
You’d have to be a fool and/or desperate to get to yes to accept this, so it’ll probably be enough to get him confirmed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
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Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal
Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
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Elinor Elliot @elinorelliot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The BBC treats climate change as a political subject, which it is not. This gives them the excuse of "both sidesing" an overwhelming scientific consensus and outright lying. It is a propaganda machine downplaying a deadly emergency and questions need to be asked at the highest level as to why.
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Robin Hawkes @robhawkes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Blackout warnings in Hungary, triggered by an outage on a gas plant and the shutdown of a nuclear plant due to low water levels. Damn that intermittent power…
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Susan Collins’ decades-long record of voting to cut Medicaid and Medicare #mepolitics mainebeacon.com/susan-collin...
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Susan Collins’ decades-long record of voting to cut Medicaid and Medicare - Maine Beacon
Although Sen. Susan Collins ultimately voted “no” on the Republican budget bill that passed on July 4, 2025 — a vote many have called performative — she has a long record of supporting deep cuts to Me...
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Fortunat Mueller @42knot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Fossil fuel companies should be held accountable for the cost they've imposed on the rest of us. Maybe now is a good time for an Iran war windfall tax.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wildfires in Europe are “very worrying”, says Shell boss, as oil giant cashed in on high prices to make bumper Q 2profits of almost $10bn. "My heart goes out to the many who are suffering from it” Sawan abandoned many green investments made by his predecessor www.thetimes.com/business/com...
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Wildfires very worrying, says Shell boss as he defends green record
Wael Sawan, the oil group’s chief executive, insists it is not ‘just a fossil fuel company’
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In recent weeks, congressmen like Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) have leveled racist attacks against immigrant communities in their districts. As I note in CAMPAIGN TRAILS, a century ago those same racist attacks were being made against people named Emmer and Rulli.
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Pulling Up the Ladder
In recent weeks, Republican representatives in Congress have repeatedly insisted that specific groups of immigrants in their communities will never be assimilated into American life, that they pose a ...
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Unlike many others forced to halt their research [due to Trump cuts], Sehgal and his co-authors released their study anyway...with a fraction of the intended sample size. Still, removing the gas stoves relieved the participants’ asthma so much that the results were clear even with only 85 of them."
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The EPA halted a study on gas stoves and asthma. But even partial results were striking.
Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Donald Trump took of...
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U.S. Climate Alliance @usclimate.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Heat pumps are helping more Americans cool & heat their homes efficiently — in the first quarter of this year alone, sales beat fossil fuel furnaces by 32%. Read more via @grist.org ⬇️ grist.org/energy/the-u...
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The US may be hitting a tipping point for heat pumps
In the first quarter of this year, heat pump sales beat fossil fuel furnaces by 32 percent. Here's what makes the appliance so powerful.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is corruption. Private entities are giving lavish gifts to governmental officials in order to get what they want for their companies. It’s essentially bribery.
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