Chris Bataille
@chrisbataille.bsky.social
Mountains, paddleboards & bikes. Tech & policy towards a net-zero GHG economy, focus on industry. @ChrisBataille@fediscience.org @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
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Huge if we can seize micro-macro arbitrage opportunities to install a ton of resources. Gonna be a big “mid-transition” sort of process all the way through. I for one am ready to watch the “did we worry too much about decarb, let’s consolidate and optimize the system” politics of my retirement 🤞🏽.
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Huge if we can seize micro-macro arbitrage opportunities to install a ton of resources. Gonna be a big “mid-transition” sort of process all the way through. I for one am ready to watch the “did we worry too much about decarb, let’s consolidate and optimize the system” politics of my retirement 🤞🏽.
😡 Shockingly, it was actually working, with much higher private leverage than expected, which is of tremendous interest to people like me, but cold comfort to those whose jobs have now disappeared 👇
It's your friday reminder that giving up on green industrial policy means giving up on domestic manufacturing investment... heatmap.news/climate-tech...
Climate Tech Pivots to Europe
With policy chaos and disappearing subsidies in the U.S., suddenly the continent is looking like a great place to build.
heatmap.news
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
😡 Shockingly, it was actually working, with much higher private leverage than expected, which is of tremendous interest to people like me, but cold comfort to those whose jobs have now disappeared 👇
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We did a report on VPPs run / owned by a local muni, co-op, GB. Needs a 2.0 for changes in markets + policy since last hear. Plus updating the lit review. publicenterprise.org/wp-content/u...
publicenterprise.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
We did a report on VPPs run / owned by a local muni, co-op, GB. Needs a 2.0 for changes in markets + policy since last hear. Plus updating the lit review. publicenterprise.org/wp-content/u...
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Every transmission story the same. Every transmission story is the same. Every transmission story is the sa...
"India 's energy grid isn’t keeping up with a surge in clean power.
The country wants to reach 500 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2030, but “we won’t be able to exceed it because there’s not enough transmission,”
www.ft.com/content/9950...
The country wants to reach 500 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2030, but “we won’t be able to exceed it because there’s not enough transmission,”
www.ft.com/content/9950...
India’s grid deadlock threatens green power rollout
Expansion of the country’s power network has not kept pace with a surge in renewable projects
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Every transmission story the same. Every transmission story is the same. Every transmission story is the sa...
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"We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%." #Brexit
Nobody could have predicted this. www.nber.org/papers/w34459
Nobody could have predicted this. www.nber.org/papers/w34459
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%." #Brexit
Nobody could have predicted this. www.nber.org/papers/w34459
Nobody could have predicted this. www.nber.org/papers/w34459
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The most important driver of Canada's long-term economic success isn't a new pipeline or some other infrastructure project. It's getting immigration right — and capitalizing on the opportunity Trump is handing us on it. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/10/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/10/o...
Donald Trump's immigration policy is a gift to Canada
Canada’s ability to integrate people from around the world has long been a source of comparative strength. It's all the more important right now.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The most important driver of Canada's long-term economic success isn't a new pipeline or some other infrastructure project. It's getting immigration right — and capitalizing on the opportunity Trump is handing us on it. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/10/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/10/o...
Hydrology. It’s easy to formulate a hypothesis that hydrology is going to be the snake in the grass of climate change. We establish, agriculture, cities and civilizations where there is enough water, and if rain- or snow-fall patterns move, the adaptation costs become enormous.
In case you're not aware, Tehran is a city of ~10 MILLION people. "Rivers and reservoirs are running dry, while groundwater sources have been overexploited to sustain agriculture and urban growth."
www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...
www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...
Evacuation warning for Iran's capital city
President Masoud Pezeshkian warns Tehran faces a historic water crisis with shortages and possible evacuations.
www.newsweek.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Hydrology. It’s easy to formulate a hypothesis that hydrology is going to be the snake in the grass of climate change. We establish, agriculture, cities and civilizations where there is enough water, and if rain- or snow-fall patterns move, the adaptation costs become enormous.
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A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
Welcome to the mid transition, where Chinese shale drilling power needs are supplemented with all the solar they can stuff on site 👇 www.globaltimes.cn/page/202511/...
www.globaltimes.cn
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Welcome to the mid transition, where Chinese shale drilling power needs are supplemented with all the solar they can stuff on site 👇 www.globaltimes.cn/page/202511/...
I won’t be at COP this year, but I can buy into #mutirão (basically a community effort/“barn raising”) and #virada (never, ever quitting). vas-y 🇧🇷!https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/08/brazil-unorthodox-cop30-approach-no-agenda
Less arguing, more action: will Brazil’s unorthodox approach to Cop30 work?
Host uses Indigenous concepts and changes agenda to help delegates agree on ways to meet existing climate goals
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
#bcpoli Living with the background mega thrust “Big One” on a 300-500 year schedule starting in the early 1700s is a little disconcerting, but when your bones, your kids’ bones and 8+ generations of your ancestors’ bones are hardened with the elements of a place, you come to embrace it 😉
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#bcpoli Living with the background mega thrust “Big One” on a 300-500 year schedule starting in the early 1700s is a little disconcerting, but when your bones, your kids’ bones and 8+ generations of your ancestors’ bones are hardened with the elements of a place, you come to embrace it 😉
Apropos of nothing, Stalin purged the Red Army officer ranks through the general staff just before Nazi Germany invaded, and it almost cost the world … civilization.
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Apropos of nothing, Stalin purged the Red Army officer ranks through the general staff just before Nazi Germany invaded, and it almost cost the world … civilization.
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THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
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November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
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Anyone else lately wondering about the value of paying air traffic controllers enough, and hiring enough of them, that we don't worry about North American airspace turning into bumper cars with planes?
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Anyone else lately wondering about the value of paying air traffic controllers enough, and hiring enough of them, that we don't worry about North American airspace turning into bumper cars with planes?
If the comments of a peer reviewer have you stymied, on how they approached your work and not the substance, start by telling them to *uck *ff (of course not to their face). It actually seems to help unblock things.
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If the comments of a peer reviewer have you stymied, on how they approached your work and not the substance, start by telling them to *uck *ff (of course not to their face). It actually seems to help unblock things.
Just as a thought for the development types out there, the older term of "industrial(ized) economies" more aptly applies to China and the middle income countries now (as a portion of GDP), than to the higher income, highly developed countries. #Fridaythought cc @katemac.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just as a thought for the development types out there, the older term of "industrial(ized) economies" more aptly applies to China and the middle income countries now (as a portion of GDP), than to the higher income, highly developed countries. #Fridaythought cc @katemac.bsky.social
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As we approach the 30th United Nations Climate Change conference, @dialoguescc.bsky.social asked @glenpeters.bsky.social: is limiting the temperature increase to 1.5°C still possible? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
As we approach the 30th United Nations Climate Change conference, @dialoguescc.bsky.social asked @glenpeters.bsky.social: is limiting the temperature increase to 1.5°C still possible? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
If Carney’s budget passes, the CPC will probably implode and find a new, more centrist leader. If the budget doesn’t pass, the Liberals will probably win a majority, and same result. Not looking good in far right wing land. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux announces resignation from Parliament | CBC News
Conservative Alberta MP Matt Jeneroux announced Thursday he is resigning from the House of Commons, according to statement shared with CBC News, a decision that comes after rumours swirled this week t...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
If Carney’s budget passes, the CPC will probably implode and find a new, more centrist leader. If the budget doesn’t pass, the Liberals will probably win a majority, and same result. Not looking good in far right wing land. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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This is really dumb and lazy, even for Bjorn.
Hey, B, what's the biggest cause of both air pollution and climate change? (burning stuff, mainly fossil fuels)
And what's causing forest fires to increase, dramatically raising air pollution? (climate change)
Hey, B, what's the biggest cause of both air pollution and climate change? (burning stuff, mainly fossil fuels)
And what's causing forest fires to increase, dramatically raising air pollution? (climate change)
November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is really dumb and lazy, even for Bjorn.
Hey, B, what's the biggest cause of both air pollution and climate change? (burning stuff, mainly fossil fuels)
And what's causing forest fires to increase, dramatically raising air pollution? (climate change)
Hey, B, what's the biggest cause of both air pollution and climate change? (burning stuff, mainly fossil fuels)
And what's causing forest fires to increase, dramatically raising air pollution? (climate change)
Good thread. I might add economic growth with a shrinking workforce & capital must come from productivity. There's a silly argument AI will automatically jumpstart productivity, when a much more reliable source is readily available - digitialized clean electrification of the 75-90% of the economy.
I’ve been studying and practicing economic modeling for climate solutions for more than 3 decades and Genevieve is 100% right on this.
Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100.
Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
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Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Good thread. I might add economic growth with a shrinking workforce & capital must come from productivity. There's a silly argument AI will automatically jumpstart productivity, when a much more reliable source is readily available - digitialized clean electrification of the 75-90% of the economy.
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Can you even imagine a pre-tomato Italy?! Weird to think that the entire history of the Roman Empire was tomato-free. 🍅 🇮🇹 🚫
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Can you even imagine a pre-tomato Italy?! Weird to think that the entire history of the Roman Empire was tomato-free. 🍅 🇮🇹 🚫
It actually happened, in real life, power “too cheap to meter”. This is actually big deal - my parents live in the only Canadian province with hour by hour marginal pricing, and they schedule the washing machine, dishwasher, etc for the cheapest time of day. 😉🤩🤣
How's this for energy abundance? Millions of Aussies will start receiving three hours of free power each day in 2026. This is what happens when you make rooftop solar less than a buck a watt!!
"Rooftop solar installations cost about $840 (U.S.) per kilowatt of capacity before rebates." 🤯
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"Rooftop solar installations cost about $840 (U.S.) per kilowatt of capacity before rebates." 🤯
🔌💡
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It actually happened, in real life, power “too cheap to meter”. This is actually big deal - my parents live in the only Canadian province with hour by hour marginal pricing, and they schedule the washing machine, dishwasher, etc for the cheapest time of day. 😉🤩🤣
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How's this for energy abundance? Millions of Aussies will start receiving three hours of free power each day in 2026. This is what happens when you make rooftop solar less than a buck a watt!!
"Rooftop solar installations cost about $840 (U.S.) per kilowatt of capacity before rebates." 🤯
🔌💡
"Rooftop solar installations cost about $840 (U.S.) per kilowatt of capacity before rebates." 🤯
🔌💡
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
How's this for energy abundance? Millions of Aussies will start receiving three hours of free power each day in 2026. This is what happens when you make rooftop solar less than a buck a watt!!
"Rooftop solar installations cost about $840 (U.S.) per kilowatt of capacity before rebates." 🤯
🔌💡
"Rooftop solar installations cost about $840 (U.S.) per kilowatt of capacity before rebates." 🤯
🔌💡
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Some jurisdictions have made a real effort and it shows in the numbers. This is a demonstration that mitigation is possible, countering the “we can’t do anything about it” narrative. Therefore it is so important.
The UNEP GAP report is not the kind of reading that makes climate scientists smile. But this figure is not all bleak - look at all the emissions curves pointing downwards!
The full report: www.unep.org/resources/em...
The full report: www.unep.org/resources/em...
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Some jurisdictions have made a real effort and it shows in the numbers. This is a demonstration that mitigation is possible, countering the “we can’t do anything about it” narrative. Therefore it is so important.
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Two years ago, the @esabcc.bsky.social published its advice on the EU's 2040 emissions reduction target. We indicated a 90-95% reduction relative 1990 levels.
Today, EU climate ministers agreed on a 90% target, with an 66.25-72.5% reduction as part for its new NDC for 2035.
Today, EU climate ministers agreed on a 90% target, with an 66.25-72.5% reduction as part for its new NDC for 2035.
Today, EU climate ministers agreed on a 90% net reduction in GHG emissions by 2040. The Council also updated the NDC with an indicative 66.25–72.5% reduction by 2035 The @esabcc.bsky.social contributed to this process by providing independent scientific advice on the 2040 climate target.
November 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Two years ago, the @esabcc.bsky.social published its advice on the EU's 2040 emissions reduction target. We indicated a 90-95% reduction relative 1990 levels.
Today, EU climate ministers agreed on a 90% target, with an 66.25-72.5% reduction as part for its new NDC for 2035.
Today, EU climate ministers agreed on a 90% target, with an 66.25-72.5% reduction as part for its new NDC for 2035.