Alex  🔧🔮🌎🪿

Bluesky is more like government agency emails. NASA has their own servers, but if you get banned by the federal government you can't keep pitching TikTok ideas to USCPSC from your NASA account.

Mastodon is more like normal email. If yahoo blocks your email, you can still email other gmail users.

A bike and trailer parked in front of a shiny Cleveland Clinic building

A view of the bike from the third floor

Forgot my car wasn't at my house, and needed to drop the kid off at day care and get to my doctor appointment. Took the bike - enjoyed autumn

"Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney: Predicting more than just weather"

If Ford brought back the Crown Vic as an EV, would you go for it?

No... what happens?! I don't think anyone's studied this yet.

arxiv.org/search/?quer...

It's a cool pitch to investors (who'll find the project) and a cool pitch to engineers (who'll do the project).

Getting people to go into mechanical or industrial engineering to make a boring car is a hard sell when they could go into finance or software and make 2-3x more money.

I think the forum/reddit model is the better for the first, because you always know the context of what community you're in.

The twitter model is billions of people typing into the void simultaneously while billions of people reply to tell them they're wrong.

Why am I still getting my federal taxes withheld?

So psyched about 13M acres of acid mine drainage. That's really what the country needs right now.

"The sun's radiation is negligible compared to all the radiation in the universe. Trying to do something about it is futile."
- a climate denier explaining why they don't use sunscreen

How much would it cost to replace a food truck's noisy gas generator with a battery (and solar maybe)?

Introducing the PPPPPA - the public private partnership power purchase agreement - all of the savings, none of the accountability!

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Schools out for summer.
Schools out for ever!

Power of Place: Clean Energy Solutions that Protect People and Nature TNC’s national report can help energy planners and policymakers execute net-zero strategies that maximize benefits for climate, nature and people.

The rooves and parking lots are not going to save you.

TNC made a very generous assumption about roofs (solar on 35% of them), and it gets us 10% of the way there.

www.nature.org/en-us/what-w...

That would be 1.7% of all PJM's installed capacity in 0.03% of PJM's area.

Maybe that's a little overkill on solar panels.

Buy this Ram 2500 and save 75% of the cost of running your own horse fleet and stagecoach.

I think it's time to stop rating LED lightbulbs as equivalent incandescent lightbulbs.

No one cares that they're saving energy compared to a product that doesn't exist anymore.

Can I keep the rock?

I still think Ford should put a 80 kWh battery and a RWD drive module in the body of an early 2000s Crown Vic, and slap on some fiber underbody panels to improve up the aero.

Could easily get an award for world's biggest frunk.

Did you put it in the "Works Sited" section?

Try wishing for something else while you're on a roll. Maybe world peace, or the ability to edit.

I miss degaussing and the chunky spring loaded power button.

LCD monitors are missing a soul.

Ford already makes an id every 1 variant

Headline: more 'likeable' EVs
License plate: id every 1

Maybe they're building these to get on Trump's good side 😯

"You don't have to stop behind the stop line at a red light before turning right. If there's no pedestrians or police present, you can just roll slowly to the corner and then make your turn."

It requires roughly 3x as much torque to travel at 315 mph compared to 180 mph (due to aerodynamic drag).

Steel wheels on steel rail might be traction limited.

If Kia manages to introduce an electric wagon to the US I'll be more surprised.

So sad we don't get the ProCeed PHEV.

Is "business partner and medical provider" one person or two people?

The next streaming service dystopic spin-off: Finding Willy