Sparkplug Power

Sparkplug Power is an energy storage project development group deploying electric Storage as a Service & working out of @Greentownlabs.

[Sparkplug Power @SparkplugPower]

Well that happened fast....

[Sparkplug Power @SparkplugPower]

Who has oil/WTI hitting $100/bbl by the end of March? #OOTT

[The True Size of Maps @TrueSizeOfMaps]

Maps shows how fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s

[Fullcourtpass @Fullcourtpass]

In the summer Payton Pritchard pays for division 2/3 basketball players to travel to Cape Cod to defend him 1-on-1 in a high school gym with no air conditioning where it reaches up to 120 degrees inside, per @espn

If he shoots under 60% for a day they all “eat like kings” at Chipotle on Pritchard

When asked a why he’s a menace with his workouts

“I can’t wake up and be Wemby”

(https://t.co/p71J4HmVLE)

[Andrew Seddon @seddonandrew]

PCBs made in America. Twice as fast as Shenzhen.

Today @CircuitHub is unveiling The Grid, our factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds circuit boards on demand.

No changeovers, no per-design setup. Prototypes and production batches, fully automated.

[Dan Koh @dank]

Because he knows he’s gonna be impeached

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Seems like Simon & Shuster’s not exactly quaking in their boots from the threats made by Jared’s lawyers

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: President Trump issues a second statement endorsing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

This marks the first time a US President has publicly endorsed a candidate in the Israeli elections.

[Elliot Kaufman @ElliotKaufman6]

New: Sources from three countries confirm that the Trump Administration has advocated Viktor Orbán for UN Secretary-General.

The US has encouraged Orbán to enter the race, even bringing him the initial idea of a joint U.S.-Russia-China candidacy.

WSJ:
https://t.co/y98HWICnwd

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

Imagine being a CEO of an US energy company and thinking that you work with close associates of the Trump family, only to find out that behind them is a sanctioned Russian company, really pulling the strings.

This happened in Alaska. Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, stepped down after finding out that the Russian "Novatek" company, which is under US sanctions, has been involved in a $25 billion energy project in Alaska. The CEO thought that he was working with Gentry Beach, a close friend of Donald Trump Junior.

Reportedly, that project was also discussed between Witkoff and Jared Kushner when they were with Putin. The White House admitted that the project was talked about "briefly".

We are witnessing the greatest corruption scandal the USA has ever witnessed. It all leads to Trump, his family and the Russians, and apparently they were even ready to sell riches of Alaska to the Russians.

The people in Alaska just need to look over to Russia, where the richest regions in terms of minerals and hydrocarbon resources have been stripped-mined, transferring all the wealth to Moscow and Saint Petersburg and leaving a scarred landscape in extreme poverty. That is the result of rampant corruption.

We are starting to see more details why Trump and his friends are trying so strongly to bully Ukraine into surrender. This is most certainly only the tip of the iceberg.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The pioneer cemeteries of Iowa stand two and three feet above the fields around them, with a fence round each one, and the step up from the corn to the graves is the topsoil that has left the state since the men in the graves broke the prairie.

Iowa was the finest soil on the continent. Ten thousand years of tallgrass prairie, with roots fifteen feet deep, had built a black loam over a foot thick across the whole state, so rich the settlers of the 1850s said you could not kill it. They ploughed it in a generation. The grass went under, the corn went in, and every spring since then the bare field has met the Iowa rain with nothing holding it, and the soil has gone down the gullies into the creeks and the creeks into the Mississippi, which has carried it to Louisiana, where it is the Gulf's problem.

The cemeteries were the one piece of each township never ploughed. The prairie grass survived inside the fence, the roots held, and the ground inside stayed where it was while the ground outside went south. So the graveyards rose, or seem to have, as the fields fell around them, and a man can stand at the fence and measure with his eye what a century and a half of corn has cost: half the topsoil of Iowa, by the state's own estimate, more than a foot in places, from the most fertile soil in the world, to grow a crop that is mostly fed to pigs or turned into fuel.

The fields are still losing it at ten tonnes an acre a year in the worst years, five times faster than it forms, and the farmer makes up the difference out of a bag.

For ten thousand years the bison grazed that grass and the roots held the state together. The men who ploughed it are the only part of Iowa still standing at the height they knew.

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

Americans have now spent $142 billion more on gasoline and diesel since March 1, enough to buy 361,000 homes at the September median price, enough to house over 900,000 people

[Donegal Weather Channel @DonegalWeatherC]

BREAKING MAJOR RESCUE OPERATION UNDERWAY OF THE NORTHWEST OF IRELAND

A major search and rescue operation is underway of the northwest coast of Ireland around the center of #stormboelo this evening following distress calls from big Russian tanker carrying diesel.

The UK Coastguard is coordinating a response to an Inmarsat-C Distress Alert from vessel MYRA.

This potentially one of the Russian ships heading to the USA with Diesel . I hope there is no leaks as it would be a environmental disaster.

The Irish air corps and Coastguard don't have the capabilities to provide cover due to the range the tanker is out

𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 & 𝗦𝗔𝗥 𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧
Given the extreme distance from mainland coastal stations (beyond typical shore-based rotary SAR operational radius without offshore refueling) and current sea states, direct surface intervention by coastal rescue craft is technically constrained.
Standard Search and Rescue protocol in this scenario relies on:Alerting nearby commercial traffic via GMDSS broadcast.Deploying long-range fixed-wing maritime patrol aircraft (such as RAF P-8A Poseidon) for top-cover monitoring and communications relay if required.

This rescue operation is ongoing as off 20:57
#SAR #Mayday #Coastguard #storm #weather #ireland #uk

[Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix]

“Mercedes-Benz is surprised by the high demand for its all-electric models”
🚨🚨🚨
#alwaysbecharging

[Sydney EV 🔋☀️ @sydney_ev]

China, the worlds biggest car market is closing in on 70% of all new car sales being Electric..

[James Seyffart @JSeyff]

Arkansas taxes do not mess around. Holy shit

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The jokes about Trump giving Alaska back to Russia can't keep up with reality...

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE
https://t.co/rO3P7aJa8h

[alex jungle @JungleAlex13227]

BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson today, “Should we bother asking you a question about Jared Kushner treasonously manipulating US foreign policy behind Marco Rubio’s back with billions in laundered bribes sitting in secret bank accounts, or have you not heard about it yet?"

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska.

According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary.

Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February.

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine.

The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives.

The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia.

According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate.

The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing.

The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company.

Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same.

https://t.co/qZqYXCYSyX