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Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 14h

10 out of 13 grants awarded for domestic Heat Pump manufacturing (the IRA’s Heat Pump Defense Production Act Program) are also listed. 🔌⚡

Awards for Gradient, Mitsubishi, and York International appear to be safe.

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 14h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 16h

B.C. Premier David Eby is clearly beyond frustrated with Danielle Smith's pipeline dreams threatening the B.C. economy.

In a fiery statement, he called her out directly stating...

"This is not the Danielle Smith show!"

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #bcpoli

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 14h

JHC. The US fed govt is immolating its nascent clean manufacturing sector.

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 14h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 15h

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 12

DENNING: ".. We are in year one of a Trump administration that is determined to crush what he has called the EV 'hoax.'"

Ford's plan "must surely trouble even the most committed ideologues to see their anti-EV onslaught hasn’t .. changed the direction of travel."

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Ford's New $30,000 EV Pickup Cuts Against Washington

When it comes to electric vehicles, US automakers have set their sights far beyond Washington and 2028.

www.bloomberg.com

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 20h

When you get back reviewer comments on a paper as long as the paper

a cartoon character with a red nose is being pointed at

ALT: a cartoon character with a red nose is being pointed at

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 22h

Forgot to tag @iddri.bsky.social @ddpinitiative.bsky.social 👆

Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 22h

So is Canada a #petrostate, doomed to be a long run rustbelt, or an #electrostate rising into the future? Maybe it's a choice between two states of mind, vision, planning & governance. Can we go our own "Norway"? See our essay, p73 of the global DDP report. ddpinitiative.org/wp-content/u...

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 23h

I love how weather forecasting has gotten surreally accurate, which strikes me as an almost godlike power, just at the moment when avoidable climate damages, which would have been mostly fairly mundane engineering with some business and social changes, are starting to bite.

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 1d

Respect

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 1d

We're all going to have to pay careful attention to what climate policies CA, OR, WA, CO, NY, NJ, MA, etc. can keep on the books (and hopefully grow 🤞).

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

California passed a huge climate package last month, w/ a big effort to weave in affordability. It's wonky but important stuff, and I broke it all down for you:
- Cap & invest extension / rebrand
- transmission accelerator
- permission to join a Western RTO!
more here heatmap.news/energy/calif...

California’s Big Climate and Energy Package, Explained

The state quietly refreshed its cap and trade program, revamped how it funds wildfire cleanup, and reorganized its grid governance — plus offered some relief on gas prices.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Aug 23

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”

Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

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Addison Killean Stark @addisonkstark.bsky.social · 1d

Industrial heat pumps are critical for electrifying industry—but decades of chasing waste heat have kept them stuck in bespoke, non-scalable projects.

It’s time to rethink the path forward. 🧵👇

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 2d

www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

High temperature record for Ottawa broken on Sunday

A temperature of 28.5 C was recorded at the Ottawa Airport at 1 p.m., breaking the previous record of 27.2 C, set in 1941. The temperature reached a peak of 29.7 C at 3 p.m.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 2d

Picture isn’t coming up, but there’s moderate wildfire smoke and it’s 29°C in Ottawa on October 5th. At the doorway of +1.5°C …

Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 2d

WTH? It’s October …

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 2d

WTH? It’s October …

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 3d

Not nearly enough is made of the incredibly impressive feat Indian Railways has made to electrify almost 100% of its 135,000km of track, while also growing renewable sourcing. Huge:

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/ind...

Indian Railways to achieve net zero targets in 2025 itself - 5 years ahead of 2030 goal - Times of India

India Business News: Indian Railways is set to achieve net-zero targets by year-end, surpassing its 2030 goal through extensive electrification. Aiming for 95% electric tr

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 2d

Given grid and subgrid storage is available at <$100/kWh, allowing us to gradually haul system wide marginal wide cost down to the per cycle level, the whole over building thing is a bit aged at this point. The question is what can we get permitted and built.

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 3d

Amongst things that outraged me this week, the US SecDef ranting on about warfighting. Sun Tzu best articulated that wars are best won by not fighting them in the 1st place, only as a last resort. From a Franco-Canadian who didn’t have to fight at Vimy, Juno, Verdun, Sedan, etc++

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 3d

Late fall micro rose

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 3d

Are you old, obsessed with politics, or both if you get this reference? Points if you know what “THIS” refers to. 🙃

Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 3d

Dental hygiene is highly underrated from a public health standpoint. A lot of the weird “unexplained” heart viruses etc are caused from poor dental health.

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 3d

Also, I still think it’s possible to hold this nightmare under +2°C.

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 3d

I.e., there are controllable and uncontrollable versions of overshoots. And the under is more like 1.9-2.3°C.

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 3d

Oddly, I would have seen this as bimodal; we either top out at +1.8-2.5°C & then a slower drift down using all forms of removal, or it just keeps climbing to 3+ish, we’re impoverished, & doesn’t come back down in a human time frame, until the bio & geosphere can reabsorb the CO2 in the atmosphere 🧐

Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 6d

The best guess of climate experts at this Overshoot Conference is that - in an optimistic scenario - we return to 1.5C (where we are now) in 7 generations time.

That's about the same distance from now as the start of the Industrial Revolution.

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