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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 16h

I’d take the arguments about overcapacity more seriously if the US concentrated its tariffs on China, and specifically the overcapacity goods produced there, instead of on its erstwhile closest allies.

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Latter. If this what spell check does, what is AI doing??

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Here’s my question. Are all these AI proofs of long standing math problems being done through brute force, or through something like imagination? If the ladder, I’m very curious.

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Harald Winkler @haraldwinkler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New working paper on Equitable Transitions Away from Fossil Fuels (ETAFFs) - read it hot off the press here commerce.uct.ac.za/sites/defaul... 🧵👇

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Someone is of the philosophical bent at Ember. "Abundance is arriving; whether it is used well is up to us." 😄

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The US public has happily gone along with several huge Republican tax cuts, without ackowledging there’s a cost, increased deficits.

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good Reuters update on US bond market issues, but it neglects to mention there is another way out than cutting spending - raising taxes. What will Washington do next if US bond yields keep rising? - www.reuters.com/business/wha...

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What will Washington do next if US bond yields keep rising?

The US government is paying more to borrow, and it is running out of easy ways to rein in its borrowing costs.

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 05/10/2026

I thought this might be an exaggeration, but no! Despite all the talk of technology neutrality, it appears the permitting reform proposal would weaponize claims for federal damages — but in practice, only for fossil fuels.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A lot of us are refugees from resource extraction North America. I just hope the internet has made those places easier places to live for a broader range of people.

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When you find an article, read through it a bit, thinking to yourself, "damn, these folks are insightful", nodding away, and then look up and see you name on the author list. 🙃

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That big dry spot in the middle ...

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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I won’t belabour this because I’ve written about it before, but the part of Carney’s pipeline pivot that I find impossible to justify is the government taking on the demand risk.

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Most kids learn to stop touching the stove.

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Adrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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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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.

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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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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That guy needs a shrine, along with the political officer on a Soviet submarine that refused to allow the captain to use a nuclear torpedo on the Americans depth charging them during the Cuban missile crisis. To be fair to the Americans, they didn’t know the Soviets had nuclear torpedoes then.

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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

*so many typos, proof I’m not AI, right? 🤣😉

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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 · 26/09/2026

Umpteen. And they emerge from alternate dimensions in your cupboards. Kind of like the opposite of socks.

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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

Also, recommend the rest of the thread. Renewables plus batteries are starting to have downward material effects on electricity prices, obviously conditional on the starting state of the jurisdiction.

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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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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Low GHG (toward less than 50grams CO2/kWh) averaged over the fleet, also low local air polluting.

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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

Combined with diet shifts away from beef+, active & specific circularity across sectors (eg metals recycling, building & material nondestructive reuse), etc, etc

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes, precisely. Investments made and built in efficiency, clean power, end-use electrification, hydrogen/CCS where necessary, mode/process shifting, land use changes across sector, rewinding combined with intensive agriculture, the list goes on and on.

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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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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s about 15-20% short haul, and 80-85% long haul.

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