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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him)

@klippenstein.bsky.social
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Canadian engineer; early Tesla fan turned early Tesla critic. Peripatetic: H2, FC, wind, EVs & infra; eNGO to corporate, R&D to manufacturing, cost-down to collective action; plus comics and a stage play. Opinions own. Blog: eclectic-lip.ghost.io

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 8h
I can’t believe this was published, but I say that a lot these days
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 19h
'No one showed any sign of remorse'. Spoiler: the current ones won't, either. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
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'No one showed any sign of remorse': The heroic US lawyer who put Nazi death squad members on trial at Nuremberg
On 29 September 1947, the "biggest murder trial in history" began. Seventy years on, the chief prosecutor, Ben Ferencz, told the BBC how he fought to bring 22 killers to justice.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An acute reminder that we don’t live in a free country as long as American tech oligarchs continue to maintain their power.
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him) @klippenstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ah, the glorious messiness of Canada. 🍁 The land of Brownian-motion-based winter time zones. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Upcoming winter time zones in Canada.
For now...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18/09/2026
"MUSK" documentary update from the NYT: Bleecker Street has moved up the US theatrical release in select cities to October 9, and theaters across the country to October 16. Universal says they are committed to an overseas release, but hasn't set dates. 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/b...
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Searing Elon Musk Film Nears U.S. Release Amid Overseas Concerns (Gift Article)
Alex Gibney’s “Musk” will arrive in United States theaters next month. Universal says it remains committed to releasing it overseas but has yet to set dates.
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Ton Aarts @tonaarts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
'Burned alive inside a Tesla' victim no .. 185 Of course with all doors locked. No way to get out. No way for help to get in .. (Imagine being a fireman wanting to help) 40 yr old male driver died inside mothership.sg/2026/09/taiw...
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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him) @klippenstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from m̷a̷g̷i̷c̷ God" -- simpletons
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.
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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him) @klippenstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Iran-backed Houthis driving, yep, Toyota technicals -- the choice of insurgents since the Toyota War of the 1980s. @niedermeyer.online www.outlookindia.com/internationa...
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How Toyota Hilux Went From A Civilian Pickup To A Weapons Platform For Insurgent Warfare | Outlook India
From Houthi forces in Yemen to Al-Qaeda-linked militants and Boko Haram, Toyota Hilux pickups have evolved from civilian vehicles into symbols of insurgent warfare.
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Missy Cummings @forrealflygirl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tesla’s will never be able to sustainably self-drive under their current vision only approach www.curbed.com/article/tesl...
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The Tesla Cybercabs Are Less Cyber Than They Seem
The gold cars have human controls in New York City, unlike in pilots elsewhere.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 15/09/2026
Alex Gibney’s documentary reveals that Elon Musk has always been a racist, sexist fraud. “Musk’s ex-wife Justine, whom he married in 2000 and divorced in 2008, says the man the world began to see in 2020 was the one she’d always known.” [slate.com]
slate.com
Some People Think Elon Musk Snapped. The Controversial Four-Hour Documentary About Him Suggests Something Else. (Gift Article)
Alex Gibney’s movie has an unfortunate twist.
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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him) @klippenstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Missed their chance to call it "Frackosaurus Tech" 🦖😏 [Big Oil isn't actually the villain this time, it's Big Gas or Big Fracking. Those abhorrent hyperscale data centres are running on underregulated off-grid natural gas-powered generators... ] naomiklein.substack.com/p/big-tech-a...
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Big Tech and Big Oil have fused – Call it Fossil Tech
Final sneak peak before launch day of my latest book with Astra Taylor
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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him) @klippenstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Say what you like, you gotta hand it to the Parti Quebecois, they respected election results. ** Correcting my prior paragraph, you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to" the peacefully separatist Parti Quebecois... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta separatists expect a win, regardless of numbers that say otherwise, poll suggests | CBC News
A political scientist and pollster say that mismatch of expectations has consequences for what comes next and Albertans shouldn’t expect this issue to be put to rest with this one vote.
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Montana Skeptic @montanaskeptic.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Part II of @niedermeyer.online's exploration of Elon Musk's place in the Epstein files is up. It might well be called... You say "Dubai," I say "Hello!" niedermeyer.online/2026/02/20/m...
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Did Jeffrey Epstein broker Elon Musk's most reliable Gulf State relationship?
The Epstein Files suggest the possibility that Jeffrey Epstein personally pitched Elon Musk an offer from Sultan Bin Sulayem to bring Tesla to Dubai
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I just saw a tech blog write that a corporation 'hired' some humanoid robots to do factory work. People, don't do this. Don't insult labor. Don't insult readers' intelligence. What a choice.
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Motorhead @bradmunchen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I think that more journalists need to look into this exchange between Musk and Epstein again. It's a timely subject, and I'd bet a signed dollar bill that Musk wouldn't take kung fu lessons even if he received government subsidies to do so. 🧵 1/5
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 18/02/2026
"And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything." #TeslaTakedown techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/t...
techcrunch.com
Tesla dodges 30-day suspension in California after removing 'Autopilot' | TechCrunch
The decision comes a month after Tesla discontinued Autopilot, its basic driver-assistance system.
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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him) @klippenstein.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Toyota’s 0-60 (% hybrids) time will be 31 years. They’ll reach that in 2028. Change in the auto sector takes time… eclectic-lip.ghost.io/toyota-0-to-...
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Toyota: 0 to 60 (% hybrids) in 31 years
It took from 1997 to 2009 – from Titanic to Avatar – for Toyota to break even, overall, on gasoline hybrids.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The death toll from Musk’s budget cuts will surpass that of every war in the last few decades combined. He knowingly triggered famines and collapsed health systems, yet he faces no consequences. We need to stop calling it cost-cutting and start calling it what it is: mass murder
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Elon Musk is incessantly promoting vile white supremacy. Why is anyone - and certainly any company - still on X? My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
usatoday.com
Wow, Elon Musk sure does like White people | Opinion
Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a guy whose social media platform most companies still use, is a BIG fan of White people. Problematically so.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/02/2026
“I’m concerned that breaking the law and breaking the rules has essentially just become a cost of doing business for companies in Musk’s orbit.” that is literally the entire deal with Elon Musk companies, Rep Howard Watts D-Las Vegas
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/02/2026
a little thirty minute update on the business of fuck elon musk 👇
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
environmental compliance / law / air pollution experts check in— looking for sources to discuss the epa rule update i wrote about here: www.cnbc.com/2026/01/16/m... lora.kolodny@cnbc.com or dm me (can chat on or off the record)
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Elon Musk's xAI faces tougher road building out data centers after EPA rule update
An updated rule from the EPA closed a loophole that allowed xAI to build its Memphis data center quickly using air-polluting turbines as a power source.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/02/2026
🍁🍁🍁Canadian pals, skip ahead to 11:30 to hear about how Tesla needs Canadians to buy its Chinese-made cars in order to keep the Shanghai factory cranking. You're a major battleground for #TeslaTakedown in 2026!🍁🍁🍁
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
My latest: With his new auto sector strategy and a plan to double grid capacity, Mark Carney isn't just talking a good game on diversifying our trade relationships away from America. He's also building a roadmap to Canada's low-carbon future. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/13/o...
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Mark Carney just picked his lane on climate change
For all the recent talk about pipelines, it's clear that Mark Carney's economic strategy revolves around turning Canada into one of the world's leading electro-states.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13/02/2026
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
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One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
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Aaron Greenspan @aarongreenspan.com · 10/02/2026
YouTube just terminated PlainSite's YouTube channel, which posted certain Epstein Files video directly as provided by the government, because doing so purportedly violated YouTube's "spam, deceptive practices and scams" policy. For real. Providing the Epstein Files is a "scam" according to Google.
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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him) @klippenstein.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Tired - 1897 Indiana pi bill: π ≡ 3.2 🤦 Wired - 2026 EPA Endangerment Finding: CO2 ≡ A-OK ✅ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana...
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Indiana pi bill - Wikipedia
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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him) @klippenstein.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Big Three Japan Two and a Chinese One My much-belated take on the Canada-China EV deal 😊 eclectic-lip.ghost.io/big-three-ja...
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Canadian autos: Big Three to Japan Two … and a Chinese One?
Toyota and Honda first set up in Canada in the 1980s, so in the span of 40 years Japanese carmakers went from an existential threat to the Canadian auto industry, to our biggest producers ... “If you ...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/02/2026
On Feb 27, 2013, Elon Musk literally went straight from playing world savior on the TED stage to meeting with a convicted pedophile human trafficker youtu.be/IgKWPdJWuBQ?...
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The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity ... | Elon Musk
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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him) @klippenstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Musk deserves a future where Epstein, not Elon, is deemed the true reason for Tesla’s success. 😒 $TSLAQ
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
betting on others’ involuntary and severe suffering will never appeal to me
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Dana Hull @danahull.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
NEW: Trapped Tesla Driver’s 911 Call: ‘It’s on fire. Help please’ Samuel Tremblett died in Easton, MA after his Model Y crashed into a tree and caught on fire. He managed to talk to a dispatcher. His remains were found in the backseat. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Tesla Sued Over Crash That Trapped, Killed Massachusetts Driver
Samuel Tremblett pleaded with a 911 operator to be rescued from his burning Tesla Inc. Model Y SUV after a crash in October: “I can’t get out, please help me.”
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 04/02/2026
finally doing a little of my own perusing of the Epstein Files, and I'll be darned if Elon Musk's personal elite influence monger Juleana Glover wasn't keeping ol' Jeff E apprised of all the latest developments in Tesla's stock pump narrative
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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him) @klippenstein.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Posting for no particular reason...
Dialogue excerpt from a scene from Breaking Bad.
An old bald man (labeled as NATO) is pointing his finger at the chest of a slightly less-old man (labeled as Trump). The former says:

"We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork. But not, you just had to blow it up. You and your pride and your ego! You just had to be the man."
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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him) @klippenstein.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
"Hydrogen projects and the Pareto Principle" closes the year for @latitudemedia.bsky.social! 😊🎉 H2's struggles have solid precedents in US solar and wind data. Thank-you 🙏 to @lisamcnn.bsky.social & team: @jigarshahdc.bsky.social @stephenlacey.bsky.social www.latitudemedia.com/news/a-paret...
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A ‘Pareto Principle’ for hydrogen’s tough 2025
Is a 20% project success rate the rule across infrastructure buildouts?
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Musk has been promising Tesla will "solve" autonomy for years. The world's richest person has continued with his lofty promises. At a recent shareholder meeting, Musk said "We're on the cusp of that. I know I've said that a few times. We really are at this point..." www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/t...
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Tesla obtains permit to operate ride-hail service in Arizona
The Arizona Department of Transportation said Tesla obtained a "transportation network company" permit in the state.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19/11/2025
His entire wealth is supported by a self-driving fraud that has killed tens of Americans, on top of countless other crimes. He is the face of the elite impunity that is destroying this country. His freedom is one of the most important political issues of our time.
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
School Choice is a euphemism for vouchers. School vouchers exist because racists wouldn’t accept desegregation.
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Łukasz Krupski @lukasz-krupski.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Hi everyone, I wish I didn't have to post this. I need your support. The battle for truth, safety and the future is taking a tremendous toll on my life. I wish I could continue. Please donate what you can and share this post. #truth #safety #tesla #tslaq #musk #fraud
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Donate to Defending the Truth: Support Tesla Whistleblower, organized by Lukasz Krupski
My name is Łukasz Krupski, and I am a Tesla whistleblower. I exposed s… Lukasz Krupski needs your support for Defending the Truth: Support Tesla Whistleblower
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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him) @klippenstein.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Even in a secular world, faith leaders can command tremendous moral power…
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15/11/2025
NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
(RNS) — In video recorded on Friday (Nov. 4) outside the embattled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, the Rev. Michael Woolf stands alongside fellow protesters, fiddling awkwardly with his backpack as faith leaders and other protesters chant slogans at a line of police officers. A moment later, one officer can be seen walking forward, grabbing Woolf by the wrist and yanking.

Demonstrators attempted to hold on to Woolf, who was a clerical collar, but four officers wrenched him from the crowd and tossed him to the ground. After turning him onto his stomach, officers proceeded to arrest Woolf, and removed him to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Maywood, Illinois.

“I’ve got bruises all over my body,” Woolf, an American Baptist minister who is pastor of Lake Street Church of Evanston, Illinois, told Religion News Service. He was speaking in his first interview since being released Friday afternoon after about seven hours in custody.

Woolf said when he asked the arresting officers to loosen the plastic handcuffs that were causing his hands to go numb, an officer replied: “Nobody wants to talk to you — shut the f–k up.”

“It’s part of the dehumanizing nature of it, and it’s it gives me a lot of clarity around what’s happening here,” said Woolf, who has been active in protests against ICE. “It’s really a spiritual emergency.”
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Keubiko 🇨🇦 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 💪 @keubiko.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Pumps are getting desperate now. Modern surgical robots have 5-6 arms, integrated sensors, and way more articulation than humans.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
weekend reading this tesla, self reported info on fsd safety and… www.tesla.com/fsd/safety it’s raising more questions than it’s answering for me.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 14/11/2025
the contrast between the NY Times profile of Olivia Nuzzi, and their recent profile of Aaron Greenspan, says a looooot about that institution's values in the age of Trump (derogatory)
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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him) @klippenstein.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"Just do it first, and bribe apologies later" - Musk $TSLAQ
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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him) @klippenstein.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
@niedermeyer.online
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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 13/11/2025
Take a exclusive look at Skyven Technologies’ cheaper, cleaner alternative to industrial boilers, which makes steam with electricity and waste heat.
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This industrial heat pump is cheaper to run than a boiler. Yes,…
Skyven Technologies is making clean steam in a cost-effective way. The tech could boost efforts to decarbonize heavy industry.
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