AukeHoekstra
@AukeHoekstra
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@aukehoekstra.bsky.social Debunking scare stories about electric vehicles and renewable energy. Director https://t.co/Xl5y2HfgHW @TUeindhoven. Founder https://t.co/2cYr8kuLMq.
Joined October 2008
Thread with tweets I refer to often. First my studies showing EVs are really much better Article Joule https://t.co/OzSgcEL8aO CO2 study with Prof Steinbuch https://t.co/IXdo7K4n1G Us in Der Spiegel https://t.co/qX7PI5dC5W Transport & Environment tool https://t.co/oPxqB7fi82
What I like best is that they are very very transparent. I always look at the annex with underlying assumptions and here I think it is well written, short but exhaustive and accurate.
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NEW: A distinguished female Navy captain within Naval Special Warfare — a Purple Heart recipient with experience w/ SEAL Team Six — was expected to take command this summer, when it was abruptly cancelled just days before. The impression within the NSW community: Secretary
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Active service women and men who spoke to CNN say that goals Hegseth laid out often don’t make sense and will damage the military.
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Do you see what's happening now....? If you don't... I can't help you.
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Israel is beyond redemption.
⚡️JUST IN: Israel’s Knesset has approved the execution for Palestinian detainees bill in its first reading, it needs two more to become law. After the vote, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir handed out baklava to celebrate. The bill paves the way for mass executions
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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We Europeans are SO done with taking this shit from the US. We are deeply grateful for the non draft dodging heroes that helped humanity against depravity 85 years ago. But this new ahistoric, egocentric, narcissistic, idiotic, depraved, and corrupt US can bugger off. FY.
President Trump criticises France and others for celebrating remembrance day, saying, "We're the one that won the wars" Surreal, and so very disrespectful to every person who fought in the wars for the freedoms we all enjoy today
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Look at what this garish, classless, tasteless fool has done to the People’s House.
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Great question, JD.
What possible interest would the US government have in keeping Epstein’s clients secret? Oh…
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If Palestinians killed 242 Israelis, they would have called it another Oct.7. Since Israelis killed 242 Palestinians, they call it a ceasefire.
The Israeli army violated the ceasefire agreement in Gaza Strip 282 times since it was introduced, killing 242 Palestinian civilians and injuring 620.
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Interesting: center right party VVD in the Netherland is claiming to help the coalition forming process by blocking the logical coalition containing a center-left party. In replies to her post, most ppl point out the double-speak, even though most of her followers must be from
De kiezer wil stabiliteit en resultaat. De VVD waardeert de inzet van de verkenner, maar waakt voor tijdrovende tussenstappen. Nederland heeft geen tijd te verliezen, het is tijd om te bouwen aan een kabinet dat levert in het kiezersbelang. Wat de VVD betreft is dat een
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Un-fricking-believable. I have no idea what is in those Epstein files but it must be really really bad.
Trump personally called Rep. Lauren Boebert urging her to withdraw support for bill releasing Epstein files — NYT
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A single $2 billion Siemens plant in China can refine more silicon than all capacity outside of China combined. China has invested a lot in solar supply chains, but we're not even trying.
China is winning the race to Type 1 Civilization and we're not even aware it's happening. By 2030, China will have the manufacturing capacity to build an entire U.S. worth of generation from solar and storage alone - every single year. The flow of energy is what drives physical
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For about $50B of batteries we can accommodate all of the load growth in the USA through 2030. But they have to be placed in the right places on the distribution grid. So this is going to be less 100 MW single deployment and more 3-8MW distributed deployments and C&I batteries.
Elon Musk: Just by adding stationary batteries to the grid, we could double the electricity production in the United States. “If you look at the total U.S. power generation capability, it's roughly a terawatt, but the average power usage is less than half a terawatt. That's
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A new serious market has emerged for lithium ion batteries: energy storage #BESS 2025 will see it become 20% of a huge 1,700GWh battery market. That’s bigger than the entire battery market in 2020/2021. And main drivers growth isn’t just about China, it’s in the US as well.
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This seems quite bad.
If you are working for xAI then you should be ashamed of yourself for allowing this crap. You are not a “truth seeking” AI. You are promoting blatant falsehoods and lies. Why should I use your product if you get the simplest facts incorrect multiple times? @elonmusk why
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Well, except for the 39 Dems who actually stood their ground on the matter…
Shaheen: So let me be clear. No one in the senate chamber wants to extend the ACA tax credits more than I do.
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Khan is not a socialist (alas); she’s a New Brandeisian capitalist who wants anti-trust laws to be enforced. That’s it. The real problem here is billionaires have fried your brain to such a mist that you think any governance imposed on the rich heralds violent revolution.
NEW: This the $2.5 mil, 4,316-square-foot family home of Lina Maliha Khan, the ethnic-Pakistani socialist who's leading Zohran Mamdani's transition team. Her corporate exec parents sent her to Yale. Now she hates capitalism and is pushing socialism on all New Yorkers.
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“Sanctions on South Africa helped free its Black people – it’s time for sanctions on Israel to free Palestinians.” —Mark Ruffalo
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These are the Democratic senators who voted AGAINST ACA subsidies.
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Narrator: He did not fight
Health care is a basic, fundamental human right. I will fight for health care like the health care that saved my life. #PASenateDebate
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law
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