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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿

@mistermadge.bsky.social
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Aerospace engineer 🔧, optimist 😁, futurist 🔮, Climate advocate 🌎, annoying 🪿 Kindness is the point. Shitpost ratio: 20%

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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ohio's HB6 solar subsidy was $140M over 7 years. Ohio's gas tax "holiday" is a $725M subsidy over just 90 days. Ohio taxpayers will pay for both, but only one makes an investment in new energy sources.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also also hegseth: The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh boy! The BAAJA permitting reform bill was introduced. The house has approximately 4 working days left in their session if they keep up their usual work pace. citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/policy/...
citizensclimatelobby.org
CCL endorses Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act
Citizens' Climate Lobby is excited to mobilize our grassroots volunteers in full support of this bipartisan permitting reform package.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Damn, Thrifty charges you $1.32/%SoC below 75%. Works out to $1.47/kWh for a Polestar 2 (or $49.53/gallon). That ain't thrifty.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lol no notes on this headline #climatechange
bloomberg.com
Exxon Sounds Alarm Coal Use Is Accelerating Global Warming
ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. says the world is on course for rapid global temperature increases as coal use persists, pushing emissions beyond mid-century climate goals.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There was a proposal to phase in a carbon price of $200/ton... Over 10 yrs it would increase gas prices from $3.00/gal to $4.80/gal, and the revenue would be sent back to people as a dividend. Instead the price of gas went from $3/gal to $5/gal in 1 year with the profits going to oil companies.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We lost the $7.5k federal tax credit but got an EV that's $10k less than a model it's replacing (plus additional $1.5k dealer incentive).
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Did you know the US FCEV market is the same size as the Norwegian gas car market?
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Plz ask your representative to support the INSULIN Act which limits insulin to $35/mo www2.breakthrought1d.org/site/Advocac... #t1d
www2.breakthrought1d.org
Urge Your U.S. Representative to Cosponsor the INSULIN Act
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Btw, things like this is why NEPA exists. www.axios.com/2026/09/02/b...
axios.com
Like "pissing in the wind": Local concerns bulldozed by Trump's border wall plan
Trump's border wall plans are "not negotiable" CBP head says.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cleveland's new trains look like the emoji! 🚈
axios.com
RTA's first new Rapid railcar arrives in Cleveland
The Siemens train is the first step in a $435 million replacement of RTA's 40-year-old rail fleet.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/08/2026
Fed-Up Rockstar Cancels ‘GTA VI’ theonion.com/fed-up-rockstar-cancel…
Fed-Up Rockstar Cancels ‘GTA VI’
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Why? Did tariffs, reduced fuel efficiency, eliminating tax credits, prioritizing more expensive foods, and deporting workers not help to reduce any costs?
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The schadenfreude from the shutdown of this nuclear power plant drowns out the more important story The climate is changing faster than our infrastructure can handle. When this power plant was built, most people couldn't fathom that the Danube would be but a trickle 44 years later. #ClimateChange
reuters.com
Romania's Nuclearelectrica starts shutting down sole working nuclear reactor over drought
Romanian state-owned nuclear power producer Nuclearelectrica has started the process of disconnecting its sole working reactor from the power grid due to record-low ​Danube River levels, it said on Th...
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Trying to buy a PHEV and the sales guy is like "wait, you wanted the battery charged?" "Uh yea... Its a major system of this vehicle"
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is exactly how I feel most of the time youtube.com/shorts/5d6Sk...
youtube.com
Ronny Chieng explains climate change for all the visual learners #DailyShow #RonnyChieng
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Is the 2020-2022 Chrysler Pacifica PHEV currently the best deal for a used hybrid "The company is also extending the battery warranty to unlimited years and unlimited mileage for affected owners who experience defect-related messaging and need a battery replacement." theevreport.com/chrysler-pac...
theevreport.com
🔥 Chrysler Recalls 17,277 Pacifica PHEVs Over Fire Risk
Chrysler is recalling 17,277 model year 2020–2022 Pacifica plug-in hybrids over a high-voltage battery that may fail and cause a fire. Owners should park outside and stop charging until repaired.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is a better UL resource for the safety of plug-in solar. The last technical issue is if the system is adding to an outlet in between an overload and the circuit breaker, then the circuit breaker won't know the wiress from PV-L are overheating. CB — PV — Load www.ul.com/insights/saf...
ul.com
Safety Considerations for Plug-In Photovoltaic (PIPV) Systems
Understand the unique risks of plug-in photovoltaic (PIPV) systems and key safety considerations for residential use in this white paper.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Marketing is really easy when you have an astronaut (and doctor) making videos about your work 😀 www.instagram.com/p/Da5XsLhDl4D/ #NASA #SpaceMedicine
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/08/2026
Trump Baselessly Claims He Is Viral 40-Pound Tabby Cat Named Daddy Cinnamon theonion.com/trump-baselessly-claim…
Trump Baselessly Claims He Is Viral 40-Pound Tabby Cat Named Daddy Cinnamon
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Since 1750 humans have released 2.5 trillion tons of CO2 from coal and fossil fuels into the atmosphere. The atmosphere itself weighs 5 quadrillion tons (5000 trillion tons). 2.5/5000 = 0.0005 = 500 ppm It's bonkers that we're emitting carbon on a planetary scale.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Worried about high gas prices? My roof produced the equivalent of 19.6 gallons of gasoline this month, and i could get 2200 miles of range from my car for that.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Did you know that a Prius Prime PHEV and a base Tesla Model 3 have almost identical costs and emissions? (according to the updated MIT lifecycle analysis) www.carboncounter.com#!/explore?ca... #ElectricVehicles #PHEV
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Corolla BEV..... Mmmmmmmm
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Citizens' Climate Lobby volunteers from across the US are visiting Washington D.C. this week to speak with their legislators about clean energy policy. Please take a minute to call your legislators and lend them support! citizensclimatelobby.org/get-loud-tak... @cclusa.org
citizensclimatelobby.org
Call Congress Day: July 27, 2026
You don't have to be in D.C. to show up! Tell your representatives: I stand with the citizen lobbyists on Capitol Hill. Help us reach our goal of 2,500 calls to Congress in one day.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Look... If Honda actually made compelling hybrids I'd be more convinced. The Honda Clarity gen 3 could have ½ the battery of gen 1 (or 180 miles of EV range). All it really needed to succeed was Android Auto.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Look, I'm a big fan of smoked salmon, but why'd they have to bring so much on the Saturn V?
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
$1.23/Watt is an incredible price for solar PV in the US. If you're in one of the 8 states that allow plug-in solar, or in one of the 33 states that have introduced legislation, think about where you could fit this bad boy. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... #solar #balconysolar
canarymedia.com
A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US
Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Question for anyone who flew on a plane today. How high is the wildfire smoke? Normal cloud height, or is it lower? Pic from Cleveland airport today around noon
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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · 16/07/2026
Is your air quality dangerous because of wildfire smoke? TELL 👏 CONGRESS 👏 Your lawmakers need to hear that you're concerned and you expect them to work on solutions to the underlying problems: community.citizensclimate.org/tools/wildfi...
community.citizensclimate.org
Take Action: Write Your Member of Congress About Wildfires - CCL Community
CCL's Online Community is a place where volunteers can learn and collaborate
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Here's a preview of a chart I'm developing where I compare how many kg of CO₂ are emitted (scope 1 & 2) for: an ICE vehicle, a comparable EV on the PJM RFCW grid (2025), and that EV with a renewable energy supplier. I need to still add the legend, but what do you think so far?
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
DoE Deletes Webpage Instructing People To Lower Thermostat to 78 www.newsweek.com/doe-deletes-...
newsweek.com
The DoE told Americans to set their thermostat to 78—then deleted the webpage
A Department of Energy webpage recommending summer thermostat settings of 75-78°F has disappeared from the agency's website after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani promoted a similar temperature.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Evaporative cooling is so ridiculously cheap. If you have a well and solar panels, it's actually free. Shingles 161°F Solar panels 85°C
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Last time I put gas in my Niro, it was April. Too bad I couldn't eke out a few more days to get to July.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
When climate change comes for your garbage truck schedules
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Clinton had Whitewater, Bush had Blackwater, now Trump has Greenwater.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I'm always complaining about how automakers keep picking the same old crossover/SUV body type for EVs, when they can do something fun. My ideal? 8.7 kWh, 50 mile range, steel wire woven tires, giant radio transmitter
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Aww hell no. Climate change killed chocolate www.cargill.com/food-beverag...
cargill.com
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I propose we rename "cognitive surrender" to "slopbotomy". FYI cognitive surrender is when a human accepts an AI output as their own without any thoughts about the accuracy.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This study shows how different PHEV charging behavior changes based on the incentives. (Germany is particularly bad) @earthsciinfo.bsky.social theicct.org/wp-content/u...
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
There's 500 GWh of batteries right now in the US rolling around. That's 3x more than the BESS capacity! If I were president, all new cars sold would have V2G functionality. www.axios.com/2026/06/11/e...
axios.com
EVs might one day shore up the ailing power grid
GM is pushing vehicle-to-grid technology as part of its broader energy storage strategy.
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Headline: EVs lose more range than ICE when towing 6th paragraph: we didn't test an ICE F-150 www.kbb.com/car-news/stu...
kbb.com
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Fervo Energy is marketing to little kids who watch a lot of construction videos on YouTube. #ClimateSolutions
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
What do kittens and maple syrup have in common in Poland?
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
More like a languid language model amiright?
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
webp is the auto start/stop of the browser
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Ballot wording like this should be illegal. > Shall the resolution enacting declaring portions of unincorporated areas of Richland County, OH to be restricted areas prohibiting construction of economically significant wind farms, large wind farms and large solar facilities be approved?
ohiocapitaljournal.com
Confusing ballot wording may have tipped Ohio vote on renewables ban • Ohio Capital Journal
This story was originally published by Canary Media. Confusing ballot language could be the reason an Ohio county upheld a ban on renewable energy last week. An early analysis of exit poll responses s...
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Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿 @mistermadge.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Saying the upfront cost of an EV is prohibitive is like saying that it would be more affordable to buy ice cubes from the store rather than buying a freezer.
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