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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦
@blakeshaffer.bsky.social
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Associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary. Former energy trader. blakeshaffer.ca
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 1d
Modeling Monday: How clean are EVs, really?
Short answer: it depends on the question. Attributional vs. consequential LCA, average vs. marginal, short- vs. long-run... the metric can flip the answer. 1/🧵
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 3d
Woke up damn early for this. But so worth it.

#HaLing #canmore
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 4d
There are 11 recommendations in here. Recs 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10 are all good, require no comment - just do them! The rest I will talk about in this thread.
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 4d
The Alberta post-secondary review is out. For the most part this is a very sensible set of recommendations. I would hazard a guess that it is not quite what the provincial government was expecting.
Alberta panel suggests new post-secondary funding model, institutional neutrality | CBC News
A panel that studied Alberta's post-secondary institutions has released its recommendations, which include replacing the funding framework, providing more assistance like grants and scholarships to st...
www.cbc.ca
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 4d
Big move in long-duration energy storage: SRP is deploying a 5 MW / 50 MWh iron flow battery with ESS. A test case for iron + salt + water storage.
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 4d
I really thought we had moved past the “renewables are intermittent and LCOE isn’t a measure of an energy source’s value” discourse 10 years ago. Sigh.

Kinda funny to see some folks treat it like a revelation today.
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 4d
i stopped reading when i saw that y-axis
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BikeBike In Calgary @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social · 5d
We support Alberta's teachers fight against the province for better working conditions for them and better learning opportunities for our children.

Group ride in support of our teachers tomorrow (Friday). #yycbike @criticalmassyyc.bsky.social
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 5d
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
a man wearing glasses is sitting in front of a wall with a picture on it .
ALT: a man wearing glasses is sitting in front of a wall with a picture on it .
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d
“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”
Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 6d
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d
The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d
I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 6d
Every time you say this I make a mental note to start doing it, next time.
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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 6d
NextEra SVP Petter Skantze says battery storage is now “the cheapest form of new capacity” in the US w/ “order of magnitude” faster deployment than gas w/ more modularity & flexible siting to enable higher system utilization & large load integration — #GridFWD in Monterey, CA 🔌💡
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 6d
As a reminder, whether it be $95 or $110 per tonne, the “policy price” for industrial emissions is largely moot right now.

Emitters can pay for compliance using emissions offsets and performance credits, which are currently trading bilaterally for under $29 per tonne.
TIER emission performance credit settlement prices from NGX/ICE.
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 7d
I’m booking the 3D printer at the library. This is gold, Jerry!
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 7d
Says the guy who smells absolutely delicious!
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 7d
Just don’t get them mixed up
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d
Fred Ramsdell was parked at a campground in Montana on Monday when his wife suddenly started shouting. He first thought that maybe she had seen a grizzly bear. Instead, she had regained cell service and had seen a flood of text messages with the same news. “You just won the Nobel Prize!” she yelled.
Winning a Nobel Prize Interrupted His Off-the-Grid Vacation
Fred Ramsdell found out about his Nobel Prize nearly 12 hours after it was announced because he was on vacation in the Rockies.
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 7d
China and the US going in opposite directions now when it comes to energy.

And it looks like China is poised to win…

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance
China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 8d
👏 well done, Justin!

At the risk of self-promotion, I thought you might like this piece I and some colleagues wrote on the economic argument for getting vaccinated:

[gift link]

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/fe4f74c...
If you got an AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, you made the right decision, according to economics
Even as the individual risk-reward scales have tipped away from AstraZeneca vaccines, Canadians must not forget the other benefit that comes with getting the jab as quickly as possible: protecting eac...
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 8d
An excellently written long piece on the return of measles, and how Alberta became the epicentre.

Well worth the read!
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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 8d
My cover story in the next issue of The Walrus.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 8d
A generation ago, measles was declared eradicated from Canada. Today, Alberta reports more confirmed cases than the entire United States. How did it become the epicentre of Canada’s outbreak? Physician and journalist @monicakidd.bsky.social explores: thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-beca...
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Alberta Medical Association @albertadoctors.bsky.social · 8d
More than ever before, there’s a feeling that someone on the internet knows better and the distrust seems to be getting worse. If we’re serious about reducing preventable suffering among kids, we need to relearn how to talk across our differences.
thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-...
How Alberta Became the Epicentre of Canada’s Measles Outbreak | The Walrus
A virus eradicated from Canada a generation ago just took the life of a newborn
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 8d
Twirling, twirling, twirling towards… civil war.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 8d
Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.
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cm 🇨🇦 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 9d
The AB teachers rally in Calgary today, at McDougall Centre

I tried to get pics up close but it was way too packed to get a good spot. Biggest rally at McDougall I've ever seen.

#Alberta #abpoli #AlbertaTeachers
A lot of people standing outside of McDougall Centre, a provincial government office and meeting space. They're holding signs and most people are dressed in red.
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