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Chris Bataille

@chrisbataille.bsky.social
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Mountains, paddleboards & bikes. Tech & policy towards a net-zero GHG economy, focus on industry. Happy globalist. @ColumbiaUEnergy @bataille_chris IDDRI.org, netzerosteel.org netzeroindustry.org IPCC AR7 CLA WGIII

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Adrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 4h
870 French households are disconnecting from the gas grid everyday. At the current rate the gas grid will be completely abandoned in 38 years. But the rate will increase. France is entering the gas grid doom loop.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 10h
Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss, threatening water supplies "…in its simplest form, what we see right now is that we took an ice cube out of the fridge and it's just melting in front of our eyes." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Worth noting: MacDonald's first attempt a establishing a Canadian Pacific Rail line STARTED in 1873 (when he and other officials were bribed as part the Pacific Scandal). Final construction wasn't completed until 1886. 13 years, not 4. Then, as now, the delays were political and regulatory.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interesting graphic analysis of how crude oil and LNG flows shifted since the beginning of the latest Persian Gulf crisis. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Asia Has Survived the Energy Crisis (Gift Article)
Seven months after the start of the Iran War, the biggest buyers of Middle Eastern energy have secured alternative supplies.
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Jenny Splitter @jennysplitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bagels and cultivated lox at NYC climate week. Ingredients beyond the salmon cells here: www.wildtypefoods.com/faqs/why-are...
cultivated salmon at Madre Brava’s breakfast of tomorrow event at NYC climate week. cultivated salmon at Madre Brava’s breakfast of tomorrow event at NYC climate week.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I got to spend one fall working deep in the Canadian Rockies after undergrad, and it was so beautiful it broke my heart to leave.
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People yammer on about AI destroying us, but nuclear war has been significant possibility for 70 years, and this guy, amongst others that we know about and others we don’t because it’s still secret, did the right things at the right time to save us, often at great personal expense.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great thread👇 ASEAN, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula have become something biggesrthan the earlier, resource orientated "Belt & Road". They seem to be the spine of a global #electrostate. But green FDI to the US is also surprisingingly large.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just wait until the Persian Gulf war has had full cycle investment effects on crude oil & LNG use. We ain’t seen nothing yet; the diesel/middle distillate shock is going revise everybody’s priors on electric trucking, etc.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A nightmare of a future foretold to be lived ahead of time.😳
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump suggests he'd allow a Chinese EV company to manufacture cars in the US if it did so with American workers. While Trump's Department of Transportation criticized Ford for its Chinese ties, including its licensing deal with CATL batteries in Michigan... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
More Vinfast cars in Vancouver, coming up. Less facetiously, Vietnam is developing and industrializing very, very fast, and is at the front edge of the electro tech revolution. This is wise.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is where we’re going to get into trouble. E-SAF by itself as a concept? Good. Negative emissions? Good. But unless you’re pulling down more CO2 from the atmosphere than is burnt as fuel, It’s not negative emissions because the CO2 is being returned to the atmosphere.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
WTP/WTA/endowment effects strike again. People get mad when stuff (electricity prices) becomes expensive, but don’t become equally as happy when they become cheap. We really are a grumpy primate. 👇
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is where the next big shoe drops www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/w...
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Basically, because the Iranians don’t Trump’s word any further than any one of them can throw him, there will be no robust peace deal in the Persian Gulf until Trump is out. Great.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m guessing this has a few implications for gigatonne scale BECCS, if it worked reliably in the first place. If we need to maximize food production while releasing unproductive land to reforestation, while growing enough biomass for chemical feedstocks, there probably just isn’t room for BECCS.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
With the greatest of respect, these people are morons.
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The kids are alright #9546703 Heard teen call the British Imperial measurement system “Oppression Units.” ☠️ Maybe it’s already a thing and I missed it but, if not, sorry, but that’s the name now.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cat ownership is gendered?? The ferocious beasts who basically operate as hunting animals to rid us of disease-ridden insect carrying rodents??
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m enjoying the smart responses to the idea climate action makes us poorer. Another not commonly discussed wrinkle is mitigation leads towards a relatively capital & labour heavy economy, which we can all participate in, vs a resource rent heavy economy, where only the rent owners benefit.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Share the places from orbit you most closely identify with 😉
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The European and North American car buying public knows what they want in an EV, and will prepay, but the European & especially North American car makers keep trying to sell them something else. 🤷
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What do you mean that rhe US nearly attacked a Chinese ship because of AI? (Wonder if this is Palantir?) www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
cnn.com
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the dark side of 🇨🇦’s Churchillian moment. If we get even more over leveraged on O&G, instead of building out electrification & the NZ transition, we’ll be way behind when the non North American world solidly shifts, when it’s just not worth maintaining FF demand h/t @beanjammin.bsky.social
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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Carney drops pipelines, oil & gas projects from Impact Assessment review The Canada Energy Regulator will solely review these projects, despite concerns that the move would weaken scrutiny of cumulative effects, species at risk, climate change, Indigenous rights 😡 www.ipolitics.ca/2026/09/09/m...
ipolitics.ca
Carney government drops pipelines, oil and gas projects from Impact Assessment review
The more technical Canada Energy Regulator will solely review these projects, despite concerns voiced during consultations this summer that the move would weaken scrutiny of cumulative effects, specie...
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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 17/09/2026
The inimitable @mikegrunwald.bsky.social has an exceptionally well written oped on the disastrous proposal from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to give companies carbon credit for cutting down trees.
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Opinion | The Latest Corporate Climate Ruse (Gift Article)
Making deforestation look climate-friendly will encourage a lot more deforestation.
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
he is really going for it
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 17/09/2026
I'll give you an example. I wrote this piece last fall -- www.csoonline.com/article/4074.... It was a bona fide scoop. Nobody else was writing about it, and nobody else had written about it. Everything in it was original to me. I used zero AI to write this piece. And yet Pangram says 32% was AI.
We believe that this text is a mix of AI and human-written content.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#leadmarkets #industrialdecarb www.hydrogeninsight.com/industrial/n...
hydrogeninsight.com
New Green Ammonia Buyers Alliance will aggregate demand from food producers to jointly procure the clean fertiliser
The US-based entity says it will ‘create a stronger market signal for [green ammonia] producers, project developers and investors’
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Blame the AI companies if in 2-5 years we cannot use credit cards or digital transfers anymore, and have to pay for everything in physical cash 🤣
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is fascinating👇 Feasible for a first round of production with paid-off capital, but gets very expensive with new capital. Industry needs to buffer, but process gear is the most expensive place to do it. IMO you’re better off buffering heat (in batteries) power, H2, or intermediate product. 🧐
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW PAPER: This sounds mad at first. Keep aluminium smelters you don't need, then switch them off every winter to balance the energy system. But might there be something to it? Joule asked me to take a look at it. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nnnf925JE...
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Uh oh, getting into 2008 territory. “On Tuesday, the 10-year treasury rate yield reached a 19-year high at 5.041%” www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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US treasury secretary hails government’s bond buyback a success
On Tuesday, the 10-year treasury rate yield reached a 19-year high at 5.041%, even as investors wary Iran war fallout
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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 15/09/2026
Can thermal batteries decarbonize cement production? This startup is putting its tech to the test.
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In a first, cement giant to tap thermal batteries for cleaner heat
Holcim will deploy two batteries from the startup Electrified Thermal Solutions to cut down on fossil fuels, which often supply the intense heat in…
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They forgot "Idiocracy" and "Manchurian Candidate".
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the sad things about the Trump era is that Canadians have to be again a hard & fierce people, which is what is what we call upon when we need strength, which is what we are. The American way is softer.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dear Canada, I was just thinking that the US only wishes it had what we have, an improbable, beautiful sense of community, which allows so much else to happen. However weird, erratic and .. bizarre … 😉
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This song is just effing genius 😉
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Saw “Practical Magic” again, I forgot what geniuses Joni Mitchell and Stevie Nicks were. Respect.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What do you call the place beyond rural, beyond farms, where animals can jump out on the highway at basically anytime? It’s not true wilderness, but it needs a name.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Holy moly
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every apologist for Russian actions in Ukraine since 2014 and especially since 2022 should be forced to add this as a disclaimer 👇 h/t @jmorenocruz.bsky.social
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
👀 We’re one errant drone strike away from war. apple.news/AUBu6BSblShO...
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Russia hits Ukrainian train shortly after Boris Johnson and top European officials leave station — BBC News
The former UK PM said "I don't know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning".
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Carbohydrates are poor, partially oxidized hydrocarbons
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is what the times have driven us to 🤣 On the other hand, I used to buy mescal in cans like this road tripping through Mexico.
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.agriculture.com/heat-drought... One of my pet ideas is a concerted push by land grant universities, state govts, solar and ag industry assocs, etc. to figure out how to deploy vertical agrivoltaics on semi-arid row crops fields to save their own agriculture
agriculture.com
Heat, Drought Take Toll on Kansas Corn Crop
Corn and soybean conditions are poor after drougth and intense heat have plagued the state for weeks. Here’s a closer look at what farmers face in Kansas.
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