Chris Bataille
@chrisbataille.bsky.social
Mountains, paddleboards & bikes. Tech & policy towards a net-zero GHG economy, focus on industry. @[email protected] @ColumbiaUEnergy @bataille_chris
http://IDDRI.org, http://netzerosteel.org http://netzeroindustry.org IPCC AR7 CLA WGIII
http://IDDRI.org, http://netzerosteel.org http://netzeroindustry.org IPCC AR7 CLA WGIII
I'm going to reserve my formal opinion for when the details emerge, but I have opinions www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Ottawa, Alberta agree to broad outlines of energy deal, including path to pipeline | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have agreed to the broad outlines of a memorandum of understanding that would give Alberta special exemptions from federal environmental l...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I'm going to reserve my formal opinion for when the details emerge, but I have opinions www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
It gives me the chills that there was actually substantial German resistance to the Nazis, but the secret police were very effective in making them disappear. I suspect something similar is happening in Russia, & something Brave New World-ish in China. In the end that's why democracy is so valuable
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It gives me the chills that there was actually substantial German resistance to the Nazis, but the secret police were very effective in making them disappear. I suspect something similar is happening in Russia, & something Brave New World-ish in China. In the end that's why democracy is so valuable
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A tremendous own goal for the US to be breaking up offices in the Department of Energy that had bipartisan support and that stood to help the US compete in industries of the future.
@bradplumer.bsky.social has the RIP for MESC, OCED, and LPO.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
@bradplumer.bsky.social has the RIP for MESC, OCED, and LPO.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
A Trump Overhaul of the Energy Dept. Breaks Up Clean Energy Offices
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A tremendous own goal for the US to be breaking up offices in the Department of Energy that had bipartisan support and that stood to help the US compete in industries of the future.
@bradplumer.bsky.social has the RIP for MESC, OCED, and LPO.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
@bradplumer.bsky.social has the RIP for MESC, OCED, and LPO.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
The crazy thing about the global steel overcapacity issue is that most of those suffering are taking it out on each other instead of on the main source of overcapacity, China and its real estate crash and slow down in infrastructure building. Of we’re going to erase WTO rules let’s do it selectively
Global steel capacity is forecast to exceed demand by 38 per cent.
UK Steel: "It is clear that free trade in the steel industry is dead. Governments are being forced to protect their industries by China’s market-distorting subsidies and colossal overproduction."
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UK Steel: "It is clear that free trade in the steel industry is dead. Governments are being forced to protect their industries by China’s market-distorting subsidies and colossal overproduction."
www.ft.com/content/768a...
Western allies seek to forge joint defence against cheap Chinese steel
‘Heightened sense of urgency’ as global steel production capacity to exceed demand by 38% by 2027
www.ft.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The crazy thing about the global steel overcapacity issue is that most of those suffering are taking it out on each other instead of on the main source of overcapacity, China and its real estate crash and slow down in infrastructure building. Of we’re going to erase WTO rules let’s do it selectively
The first thing AI eats will be the global, large scale, unfamiliar with local details, and unwilling to spend the time to learn them consulting industry. 😁 @joelwwood.bsky.social
This is the 2nd time a major government report from Deloitte has been found to contain errors likely generated by AI.
First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI
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November 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The first thing AI eats will be the global, large scale, unfamiliar with local details, and unwilling to spend the time to learn them consulting industry. 😁 @joelwwood.bsky.social
@dralaaclimate.bsky.social makes some fundamental points here. Normally time offers option value; here, because time involves extended emissions, delayed mitigation is eating away at options and increasing risk of crossing irreversible thresholds. Sigh.
Spent Saturday night reviewing the final #COP30 Belém draft text. A friend joked it counts as “light reading.”
Unfortunately, it is very much a light read.
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Unfortunately, it is very much a light read.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
@dralaaclimate.bsky.social makes some fundamental points here. Normally time offers option value; here, because time involves extended emissions, delayed mitigation is eating away at options and increasing risk of crossing irreversible thresholds. Sigh.
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Overshoot: returning to 1.5°C requires net-negative emissions targets. @swp-berlin.org policy brief with Oliver Geden.
Keeping 1.5 alive will require reframing “net-zero” as transitional stage towards net-negative GHG emissions rather than an endpoint, and policy instruments able to deliver this.
Keeping 1.5 alive will require reframing “net-zero” as transitional stage towards net-negative GHG emissions rather than an endpoint, and policy instruments able to deliver this.
Overshoot: Returning to 1.5°C Requires Net-negative Emissions Targets
Global warming is set to rise above 1.5°C by the early 2030s. Returning to 1.5°C before the end of the 21st century would not prevent all harms...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Overshoot: returning to 1.5°C requires net-negative emissions targets. @swp-berlin.org policy brief with Oliver Geden.
Keeping 1.5 alive will require reframing “net-zero” as transitional stage towards net-negative GHG emissions rather than an endpoint, and policy instruments able to deliver this.
Keeping 1.5 alive will require reframing “net-zero” as transitional stage towards net-negative GHG emissions rather than an endpoint, and policy instruments able to deliver this.
So, what I take from this COP is most of the Global South, China and few northern allies are going to keep dragging progress forward, while the #petrostates drag their feet until their economies are literally hauled right out from underneath them by #electrotech www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
So, what I take from this COP is most of the Global South, China and few northern allies are going to keep dragging progress forward, while the #petrostates drag their feet until their economies are literally hauled right out from underneath them by #electrotech www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Is the US administration is just talking to itself in a circle, and none of the actual protagonists?
Russia flat out rejects Trump's 28-point peace plan: "Even in a reduced military and territorial form, Ukraine would remain a significant danger, requiring us to keep our forces on the western borders."
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Is the US administration is just talking to itself in a circle, and none of the actual protagonists?
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An IRA program that yet lives - may it help shift the default heating mode to the heat pump
An IRA program that yet lives - may it help shift the default heating mode to the heat pump
New England kicks off $450M plan to supercharge heat pump adoption
The program aims to use federal funds awarded under the Biden administration to deploy more than 500,000 heat pumps in the chilly region over the next few…
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November 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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An IRA program that yet lives - may it help shift the default heating mode to the heat pump
An IRA program that yet lives - may it help shift the default heating mode to the heat pump
👀 Literally 4 or 5 different things could topple the Iranian government in the next year: ecological, fiscal, cultural. And it wouldn’t be a peaceful transfer of government. Brings a new meaning to polycrisis.
"Economists say the current model is untenable: the real cost of imported gasoline has risen to 700,000 rials (around 65 cents) per liter, while subsidized retail prices remain just over 1 cent per liter."
Haunted by 2019 protests, Tehran avoids fuel price hike
Tehran is once again tiptoeing around the issue of gasoline prices under the long shadow of November 2019 protests that became one of the bloodiest crackdowns in the Islamic Republic’s history.
www.iranintl.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
👀 Literally 4 or 5 different things could topple the Iranian government in the next year: ecological, fiscal, cultural. And it wouldn’t be a peaceful transfer of government. Brings a new meaning to polycrisis.
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🚨 Postdoctoral opportunities! 🚨
Hello #econsky! We are hiring 2 postdocs in the department of economics at UCalgary for those working in *electricity economics*
Term: 2 years
Pay: $80,000/yr + benefits + $10k research allowance
Start: July 2026
Details in next two posts 👇
Hello #econsky! We are hiring 2 postdocs in the department of economics at UCalgary for those working in *electricity economics*
Term: 2 years
Pay: $80,000/yr + benefits + $10k research allowance
Start: July 2026
Details in next two posts 👇
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
🚨 Postdoctoral opportunities! 🚨
Hello #econsky! We are hiring 2 postdocs in the department of economics at UCalgary for those working in *electricity economics*
Term: 2 years
Pay: $80,000/yr + benefits + $10k research allowance
Start: July 2026
Details in next two posts 👇
Hello #econsky! We are hiring 2 postdocs in the department of economics at UCalgary for those working in *electricity economics*
Term: 2 years
Pay: $80,000/yr + benefits + $10k research allowance
Start: July 2026
Details in next two posts 👇
Edges showing in the Permian. Sub $60 is meagre territory. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Edges showing in the Permian. Sub $60 is meagre territory. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
The Global South is now leading the Global North in some areas of the clean energy transition, thanks to Chinese imports and support. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Accessible, cheap clean energy could spark a new world order
Unshackled from legacy fossil fuel interests, the world’s clean energy future is being forged in the bustling cities of the global south.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The Global South is now leading the Global North in some areas of the clean energy transition, thanks to Chinese imports and support. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Nearly 30 countries refuse to sign a final #COP30 agreement that doesn't include "fossil fuel phase-out," as negotiations head into overtime.
Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Nearly 30 countries refuse to sign a final #COP30 agreement that doesn't include "fossil fuel phase-out," as negotiations head into overtime.
Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
I’m really surprised this isn’t bigger news. Just under 10 million people live in Tehran. Where can they go? Where else in Iran will have enough water? This will undoubtedly strain the country’s and the region’s politics, finances and governance capacity.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I’m really surprised this isn’t bigger news. Just under 10 million people live in Tehran. Where can they go? Where else in Iran will have enough water? This will undoubtedly strain the country’s and the region’s politics, finances and governance capacity.
At least the post WWII Cambridge communist traitors had ideals, believed in something. The current crop of far-right traitors are just corrupt and greedy.
The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison after admitting taking bribes for pro-Russia interviews and speeches.
Former Reform in Wales leader Nathan Gill jailed for pro-Russian bribery
Nathan Gill, 52, is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison after admitting taking bribes while an MEP.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
At least the post WWII Cambridge communist traitors had ideals, believed in something. The current crop of far-right traitors are just corrupt and greedy.
It’s insane how one really bad & rejected paper is undoing one of the greatest human accomplishments ever, the virtual elimination of common deadly infectious diseases. This one administration is making democracy look bad & authoritarianism good for developing countries building their governance.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
It’s insane how one really bad & rejected paper is undoing one of the greatest human accomplishments ever, the virtual elimination of common deadly infectious diseases. This one administration is making democracy look bad & authoritarianism good for developing countries building their governance.
Coal or biomass to olefins - I.e., plastic from coal instead of naphtha or ethane, another nail in the coffin of long run crude oil demand @markhamhislop.bsky.social
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China’s ‘coal plastic’ breakthrough can greatly reduce its demand for oil: study
Plastics, detergents, adhesives, solvents and synthetic rubbers could be produced without need for petroleum, study finds.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Coal or biomass to olefins - I.e., plastic from coal instead of naphtha or ethane, another nail in the coffin of long run crude oil demand @markhamhislop.bsky.social
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China often uses coal as a source for hydrogen to make chemicals, but a plant has fired up that supplement the hydrogen with that supplied from electrolysis of water. www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/11....
China's first coal-to-chemicals project with green hydrogen starts commercial operations
China's first coal-to-chemicals project integrating green hydrogen started commercial operations on Thursday. Operated by major state-owned power producer Datang Group, the project is forecast to produce 70.59 billion cubic meters of hydrogen annually.
www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
China often uses coal as a source for hydrogen to make chemicals, but a plant has fired up that supplement the hydrogen with that supplied from electrolysis of water. www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/11....
👀 Floods, fires .... sounds sort of par for course in 2025.
There's a fire underway at #COP30 (a literal one, not a metaphorical one about climate change or state of talks).
I'm told delegates are being evacuated.
Video here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-6G...
I'm told delegates are being evacuated.
Video here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-6G...
Fire breaks out in pavilion at COP30 climate talks: AFP journalists | AFP
YouTube video by AFP News Agency
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November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
👀 Floods, fires .... sounds sort of par for course in 2025.
Another big developing country travelling the coal to renewables journey. The Ukraine war LNG pinch taught them they cannot rely on it, & instead we're seeing a huge renewable build out (mainly solar) balanced by far more flexible coal utlization than anticipated. h/t @justinmikulka.bsky.social
India's coal utilisation is set to decline as renewables increasingly meet power demand.
MORE THAN A THIRD of India’s coal assets will run below 40% utilisation by 2032. Expensive plants running above INR 3/kWh risks becoming underutilised or going idle.
https://loom.ly/YXrBeIo
MORE THAN A THIRD of India’s coal assets will run below 40% utilisation by 2032. Expensive plants running above INR 3/kWh risks becoming underutilised or going idle.
https://loom.ly/YXrBeIo
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Another big developing country travelling the coal to renewables journey. The Ukraine war LNG pinch taught them they cannot rely on it, & instead we're seeing a huge renewable build out (mainly solar) balanced by far more flexible coal utlization than anticipated. h/t @justinmikulka.bsky.social
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Pretty much everything interesting going on in the world is captured in the story of Simandou, the soon-to-be-operational gigantic iron ore mine in Guinea, West Africa.
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How the world’s biggest mining project is a win for China
The $23bn Simandou mine in Guinea has taken almost three decades to begin operating but could tilt the balance of power in the global iron ore market
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November 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Pretty much everything interesting going on in the world is captured in the story of Simandou, the soon-to-be-operational gigantic iron ore mine in Guinea, West Africa.
www.ft.com/content/9fe8...
www.ft.com/content/9fe8...
So, today's weird climate adaptation story. Someone was telling me winter is getting shorter in the Japanese "Alps". The bears aren't hibernating (as long?) anymore, the population is exploding, attacks on hikers have gone way up, and there have several deaths. Weird times.
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So, today's weird climate adaptation story. Someone was telling me winter is getting shorter in the Japanese "Alps". The bears aren't hibernating (as long?) anymore, the population is exploding, attacks on hikers have gone way up, and there have several deaths. Weird times.
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Gas car sales have fallen 30% from their peak in 2017 as EV's have exploded in popularity around the world
Only one direction for cars and that's cheaper, cleaner and better
Cold as ICE 😎
Only one direction for cars and that's cheaper, cleaner and better
Cold as ICE 😎
November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Gas car sales have fallen 30% from their peak in 2017 as EV's have exploded in popularity around the world
Only one direction for cars and that's cheaper, cleaner and better
Cold as ICE 😎
Only one direction for cars and that's cheaper, cleaner and better
Cold as ICE 😎