Reposted by Chris BatailleAdrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 4h870 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. 54620
Reposted by Chris BatailleProf Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 10hSwiss 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... 210775
Reposted by Chris BatailleKent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Worth 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. 1178
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Interesting graphic analysis of how crude oil and LNG flows shifted since the beginning of the latest Persian Gulf crisis. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comHow 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. 023
Reposted by Chris BatailleJenny Splitter @jennysplitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Bagels and cultivated lox at NYC climate week. Ingredients beyond the salmon cells here: www.wildtypefoods.com/faqs/why-are... 1297
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I got to spend one fall working deep in the Canadian Rockies after undergrad, and it was so beautiful it broke my heart to leave. 060
Reposted by Chris BatailleSara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026He imposed Shania Law 14975321455
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 26/09/2026People 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. 0120
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Great 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. 1134
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just 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. 46217
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A nightmare of a future foretold to be lived ahead of time.😳 032
Reposted by Chris BatailleAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Trump 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... 3167
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 25/09/2026More 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. 070
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This 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. 011
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 24/09/2026WTP/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. 👇 130
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is where the next big shoe drops www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/w... 1188
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Basically, 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. 021
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’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. 161
Reposted by Chris BatailleMax Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026With the greatest of respect, these people are morons. 1421361
Reposted by Chris BatailleHisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The 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. 1114
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Cat ownership is gendered?? The ferocious beasts who basically operate as hunting animals to rid us of disease-ridden insect carrying rodents?? 140
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I’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. 261
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Share the places from orbit you most closely identify with 😉 022
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The 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. 🤷 2209
Reposted by Chris BatailleSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What 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.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 55821
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This 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 170
Reposted by Chris Batailleconsbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Carney 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.caCarney government drops pipelines, oil and gas projects from Impact Assessment reviewThe 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... 41611
Reposted by Chris BatailleDanny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 17/09/2026The 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.nytimes.comOpinion | The Latest Corporate Climate Ruse (Gift Article)Making deforestation look climate-friendly will encourage a lot more deforestation. 311270
Reposted by Chris BatailleRobinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026he is really going for it 4597
Reposted by Chris BatailleCynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 17/09/2026I'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. 186
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 17/09/2026#leadmarkets #industrialdecarb www.hydrogeninsight.com/industrial/n...hydrogeninsight.comNew Green Ammonia Buyers Alliance will aggregate demand from food producers to jointly procure the clean fertiliserThe US-based entity says it will ‘create a stronger market signal for [green ammonia] producers, project developers and investors’ 020
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Blame 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 🤣 241
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This 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. 🧐 120
Reposted by Chris BatailleJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026NEW 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... 107424
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Uh 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...theguardian.comUS treasury secretary hails government’s bond buyback a successOn Tuesday, the 10-year treasury rate yield reached a 19-year high at 5.041%, even as investors wary Iran war fallout 140
Reposted by Chris BatailleCanary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 15/09/2026Can thermal batteries decarbonize cement production? This startup is putting its tech to the test.canarymedia.comIn a first, cement giant to tap thermal batteries for cleaner heatHolcim will deploy two batteries from the startup Electrified Thermal Solutions to cut down on fossil fuels, which often supply the intense heat in… 0107
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026They forgot "Idiocracy" and "Manchurian Candidate". 150
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026One 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. 010
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Dear 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 … 😉 040
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Saw “Practical Magic” again, I forgot what geniuses Joni Mitchell and Stevie Nicks were. Respect. 110
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026What 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. 200
Reposted by Chris BatailleDana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Holy moly 0182
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Every 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 061
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 13/09/2026👀 We’re one errant drone strike away from war. apple.news/AUBu6BSblShO...apple.newsRussia hits Ukrainian train shortly after Boris Johnson and top European officials leave station — BBC NewsThe 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". 142
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Carbohydrates are poor, partially oxidized hydrocarbons 0153
Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This 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. 020
Reposted by Chris BatailleJohn Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 12/09/2026www.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 agricultureagriculture.comHeat, Drought Take Toll on Kansas Corn CropCorn 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. 73412