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@mitcheme.bsky.social‬ with 40+ years leading green hydrogen #H2 & #decarbonization technology/business/innovation. Posts/Links/QPs mine, not my clients', & ≠ endorsements.

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Criminal charges for 2 men ignoring #FireSafety #chemistry101 at Modesto, CA waste facility.
1⃣Waste powdered magnesium & aluminum is pyrophoric-ignited spontaneously in air.
2⃣Firefighters mistakenly added water to Mg & Al: produced hydrogen gas. H2 made secondary explosion!
#safety #H2 #hydrogen

06.03.2026 19:16 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Toyota City Trials Hydrogen Cooking in Local 'H Challenge' fuelcellsworks.com/2026/03/02/h...

06.03.2026 15:51 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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LIVE SOON: Accountability Karma! Starting Mar 5 at 8:30 PM EST

From Kristi Noem being fired to Lindsey Halligan being investigated by the Florida state bar for misconduct, feels like at least a little bit of accountability karma.

Let's jump on Substack live for our Community Meeting at 8:30 pm ET to discuss.
open.substack.com/live-stream/...

05.03.2026 23:37 👍 366 🔁 85 💬 18 📌 2
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Recently, we visited Aquatic Labs in Cambridge, MA, where Founder & CEO Allan Adams and his team are building reagent-free, solid-state sensors to continuously track marine carbon in real time.

Learn more about how our #InnovateMass program supports climatetech: www.masscec.com/program/inno...

05.03.2026 20:31 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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↙️FutEra Power claims CAN$5MM ERA @ERAlberta grant for geothermal organic Rankine cycle #ORC power project in Alberta
↘️My quick LinkedIn analysis: 11.2% electrical generation efficiency does not look viable
NB: PowerFlow™ is not mentioned on FutEra website!
#geothermal #HeatToPower #thermodynamics101

05.03.2026 20:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, a decade ago I took his Energy Startup class from MIT Executive Education. Very insightful!

His official title now: Ethernet Inventors Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.

04.03.2026 20:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yet another piece of AI slop from Michael Barnard, with yet another AI-slop image.

(My figure shows how his monthly post count is way up since AI came out-- <5 posts to 30+ each month!)

At least he's an equal-opportunity hater: he hates everything but batteries: hydrogen, geothermal...

03.03.2026 21:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great to see!

03.03.2026 12:44 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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NEWS: Ben Downing has been named the Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center!

Read the official announcement: www.masscec.com/press/ben-do...

02.03.2026 17:30 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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India’s first hydrogen train runs trial from Jind at 70 kmph. Key details India’s first hydrogen-powered train successfully completed its trial run in Haryana’s Jind, covering a 20-km stretch between Jind and Lalit Khera at a speed of 70 kmph. Testing will continue for a we...

India’s first hydrogen train runs trial from Jind at 70 kmph.

www.indiatoday.in/information/...

03.03.2026 00:01 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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Read the laughable legal memo behind the claim that Trump can declare a national voting emergency There are “four immediately obvious problems” with this, legal expert Liza Goitein said.

NEW: The Florida-based lawyer leading the charge in Trump’s effort to issue an executive order that would enable a federal takeover of the upcoming elections shared his reasoning.

And one legal expert immediately tore it to shreds.

Jim Saksa breaks it down👇

26.02.2026 23:11 👍 350 🔁 163 💬 15 📌 6
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Data centers’ share of US electricity seen doubling by 2030 The Electric Power Research Institute’s electricity-demand estimates are about 60 percent higher than the group anticipated two years ago.

Well, this looks fun.

In Virginia, one of the world’s main data center hubs, the technology could consume 41 percent to 59 percent of electricity by 2030, up from 25 percent today, EPRI said.

www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

26.02.2026 23:29 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Last year Plug Power cancelled their green hydrogen plant at the Science, Technology, and Advanced Manufacturing Park #STAMP in W NY; now they are monetizing $132.5MM of their sunk costs with Stream Data Centers, who's been working for years on a data center at STAMP.
#hydrogen #H2

26.02.2026 21:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, thanks to those weather forecasting, etc. improvements, the 2024 death rate is ~4x lower than the increase in cost damage since the 1980s!

Meanwhile, our government continues trying to gut all those weather forecasting, etc. departments...

25.02.2026 23:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

More proof for climate skeptics that the climate is changing. Just look at the increases in extreme weather KPIs since the 1980s:
- 8.2x more $1B weather events per year
- 8.3x greater damage per yr
- 1.9x greater deaths per yr
At 2024 rate, cumulative 2025-2030 cost will be $1.1B!

25.02.2026 14:42 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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Dutch Hydrogen Network Hits Major Milestone | Gas Compression Magazine Rotterdam Fills First Major Pipeline Of Dutch Hydrogen Network With Hydrogen

Dutch Hydrogen Network Hits Major Milestone

Rotterdam Fills First Major Pipeline Of Dutch Hydrogen Network With Hydrogen

gascompressionmagazine.com/2026/02/24/d...

25.02.2026 05:15 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
FREE snow shoveling class poster

FREE snow shoveling class poster

For everyone in the Boston area...

24.02.2026 13:37 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Switch Maritime & Incat Crowther advance a 150-passenger #hydrogen fuel cell-electric fast ferry for New York.
Designed to match diesel speeds & daily ops—no charging infrastructure needed. ZEF-150 demo planned at Brooklyn Navy Yard.

#H2Now #FuelCells

fcw.sh/E4iUMd

23.02.2026 13:55 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Vanishing cars jeopardize Europe’s raw materials security Used vehicles are a treasure trove of metals essential in energy technology, but the EU is letting them disappear without a trace.

About 800,000 used cars from Europe get exported to countries like Africa every year.
Not only does the EU miss out on the recycling it also means that buying new EVs etc doesn't remove older dirty cars from the road. It just moves them to a country with worse regs.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...

23.02.2026 14:47 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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U.S. energy storage shatters records with 58 GWh installed in 2025 A new quarterly report from SEIA and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence highlights a 30% year-over-year growth in the U.S. battery market, even as the industry braces for supply chain restructuring and a shift in the political landscape.

U.S. energy storage shatters records with 58 GWh installed in 2025 #energysky -- via pv magazine usa:

23.02.2026 15:06 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
EC approves German State aid scheme for Canadian hydrogen imports

EC approves German State aid scheme for Canadian hydrogen imports

23.02.2026 12:39 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Planning an FCEV road trip in California? Check real-time hydrogen station availability before you drive. H2FCP's Station Operational Status System shows which stations are operational and ready to fuel your vehicle: https://loom.ly/nFHmEr0

23.02.2026 13:11 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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22.02.2026 18:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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90 millions de km pour la flotte de véhicules hydrogène de HysetCo - H2Today Si l'on en croit Toyota, qui est un de ses actionnaires, la flotte de véhicules à hydrogène de HysetCo a parcouru plus de 90 millions de km

90 million km for HysetCo's hydrogen vehicle fleet - H2Today hydrogentoday.info/flotte-hyset...

21.02.2026 13:27 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

As @hypx.bsky.social says, replacing the energy a Boeing 747-300 needs with a battery would require a battery that is 5.8 million pounds–nearly seven times the weight of a fully-fueled plane.
Per @theguardian.com

22.02.2026 00:11 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Nope!
It seems similar to the "well-meaning" "Voter ID" attempts down here which actually do not make the vote more secure, but cause voter suppression.

21.02.2026 16:12 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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As a small business owner, I value the SBA.

But seeing ICE and CBP weaponize once-private data, this SBA "security" upgrade feels like another quiet pipeline to harvest and weaponize our private information.

This should worry every small business.

21.02.2026 15:00 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Some are trying to blame Governor Newsom & "the left" for the large increase in California's electricity rates.

@canarymedia.com points out the actual reasons:
1️⃣Repairs & grid upgrades due to the climate change-driven increase in wildfires
2️⃣Solar generation reduces utility electricity sales

19.02.2026 23:19 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Air Force leading geologic hydrogen research initiative for Malmstrom & McConnell AFBs.

RFI is released. Deadline is March 2.

bit.ly/4qFwL4L hashtag#hydrogen hashtag#GeologicHydrogen hashtag#AirForce hashtag#Montana hashtag#Kansas

18.02.2026 22:47 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

There are a number of hydrogen-related items in this collection worth perusing. Here are a sampling:

18.02.2026 19:03 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0