Harris Berton
@harrisberton.bsky.social
Climate dad, Canadian energy policy nerd. I post about energy technologies and how we can use them to stop climate change. Views my own. #energysky
June 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Counterpoint: Techno-optimism alone will fix climate change 😂
Absurdity of both points aside, I think it's important to recognize the very high cost of non-technology solutions that are referenced by this statement.
While reducing consumption can help, we can't pretend it's free or painless.
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Absurdity of both points aside, I think it's important to recognize the very high cost of non-technology solutions that are referenced by this statement.
While reducing consumption can help, we can't pretend it's free or painless.
🔌💡
May 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Counterpoint: Techno-optimism alone will fix climate change 😂
Absurdity of both points aside, I think it's important to recognize the very high cost of non-technology solutions that are referenced by this statement.
While reducing consumption can help, we can't pretend it's free or painless.
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Absurdity of both points aside, I think it's important to recognize the very high cost of non-technology solutions that are referenced by this statement.
While reducing consumption can help, we can't pretend it's free or painless.
🔌💡
Hmmm includes interest charges...don't have the full sorry yet...
May 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Hmmm includes interest charges...don't have the full sorry yet...
Great post on LinkedIn from @shreyassudhakar.com
Anyone thinking through how to lower the cost of heat pumps needs to keep the business model in mind.
This is not an equipment cost problem, and opportunities to leverage this structure like midstream programs exist.
#heatpumps 🔌💡
Anyone thinking through how to lower the cost of heat pumps needs to keep the business model in mind.
This is not an equipment cost problem, and opportunities to leverage this structure like midstream programs exist.
#heatpumps 🔌💡
April 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Great post on LinkedIn from @shreyassudhakar.com
Anyone thinking through how to lower the cost of heat pumps needs to keep the business model in mind.
This is not an equipment cost problem, and opportunities to leverage this structure like midstream programs exist.
#heatpumps 🔌💡
Anyone thinking through how to lower the cost of heat pumps needs to keep the business model in mind.
This is not an equipment cost problem, and opportunities to leverage this structure like midstream programs exist.
#heatpumps 🔌💡
They are, exporting nearly all of it actually. I'd say the planned battery capacity is the better solution.
April 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
They are, exporting nearly all of it actually. I'd say the planned battery capacity is the better solution.
Drove through rural southwestern Ontario this morning. Drove by this wind farm with all the blades turned into the wind so they're motionless, despite all the surrounding ones going full tilt.
Sure enough, IESO grid is overloaded with wind, cool to see curtailment in practice.
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Sure enough, IESO grid is overloaded with wind, cool to see curtailment in practice.
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April 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Drove through rural southwestern Ontario this morning. Drove by this wind farm with all the blades turned into the wind so they're motionless, despite all the surrounding ones going full tilt.
Sure enough, IESO grid is overloaded with wind, cool to see curtailment in practice.
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Sure enough, IESO grid is overloaded with wind, cool to see curtailment in practice.
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"I scanned the book for ideas I already agreed with as a proxy for whether I agreed with its argument"
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April 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"I scanned the book for ideas I already agreed with as a proxy for whether I agreed with its argument"
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Your regularly scheduled reminder that the idea DAC is impractical because we need the renewable energy is false. We can just use natural gas. 🔌💡
www.cbsnews.com/news/is-carb...
www.cbsnews.com/news/is-carb...
March 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Your regularly scheduled reminder that the idea DAC is impractical because we need the renewable energy is false. We can just use natural gas. 🔌💡
www.cbsnews.com/news/is-carb...
www.cbsnews.com/news/is-carb...
I don't at all disagree with this. But I wouldn't underestimate the importance of these sectors for decarb.
March 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I don't at all disagree with this. But I wouldn't underestimate the importance of these sectors for decarb.
March 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
No they don't...🤦♂️
March 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
No they don't...🤦♂️
AWESOME piece from @chrisbataille.bsky.social @noahqkaufman.bsky.social
I think the piece nails the issues, but I think eschewing energy-economy models is the wrong approach.
So many solutions are intersectoral, we need to ensure their internal consistency with net-zero.
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I think the piece nails the issues, but I think eschewing energy-economy models is the wrong approach.
So many solutions are intersectoral, we need to ensure their internal consistency with net-zero.
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March 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
AWESOME piece from @chrisbataille.bsky.social @noahqkaufman.bsky.social
I think the piece nails the issues, but I think eschewing energy-economy models is the wrong approach.
So many solutions are intersectoral, we need to ensure their internal consistency with net-zero.
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I think the piece nails the issues, but I think eschewing energy-economy models is the wrong approach.
So many solutions are intersectoral, we need to ensure their internal consistency with net-zero.
🔌💡
Really gotta model at the continent level. Net zero America remains a decent benchmark here. Nuclear value is quite sensitive to its installed costs but you'd want to play with more variables to under better.
March 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Really gotta model at the continent level. Net zero America remains a decent benchmark here. Nuclear value is quite sensitive to its installed costs but you'd want to play with more variables to under better.
It's totally fair to disagree with this point, some good discussions and points followed from the post.
This is just an effort to use Bluesky's blocking approach to suppress ideas you don't agree with, even if we're totally aligned on the seriousness of climate as an issue.
🔌💡 #greensky
This is just an effort to use Bluesky's blocking approach to suppress ideas you don't agree with, even if we're totally aligned on the seriousness of climate as an issue.
🔌💡 #greensky
March 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It's totally fair to disagree with this point, some good discussions and points followed from the post.
This is just an effort to use Bluesky's blocking approach to suppress ideas you don't agree with, even if we're totally aligned on the seriousness of climate as an issue.
🔌💡 #greensky
This is just an effort to use Bluesky's blocking approach to suppress ideas you don't agree with, even if we're totally aligned on the seriousness of climate as an issue.
🔌💡 #greensky
Let's do a quick thread about why HPWH are a really important DR opportunity.
Boiling it down to average load is incredibly simplistic.
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@xiaowang1984.bsky.social @jigarshahdc.bsky.social
Boiling it down to average load is incredibly simplistic.
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@xiaowang1984.bsky.social @jigarshahdc.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Let's do a quick thread about why HPWH are a really important DR opportunity.
Boiling it down to average load is incredibly simplistic.
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@xiaowang1984.bsky.social @jigarshahdc.bsky.social
Boiling it down to average load is incredibly simplistic.
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@xiaowang1984.bsky.social @jigarshahdc.bsky.social
Wanting to clarify these points... @ketanjoshi.co @sevier.io
Everyone acknowledges tension b/w growth and climate goals, but it's not as simplistic as "it's good".
On tech, politics is inherent to arguments for CDR/CCS/demand growth. We just disagree on strategy sometimes.
#greensky 🔌💡
Everyone acknowledges tension b/w growth and climate goals, but it's not as simplistic as "it's good".
On tech, politics is inherent to arguments for CDR/CCS/demand growth. We just disagree on strategy sometimes.
#greensky 🔌💡
February 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Wanting to clarify these points... @ketanjoshi.co @sevier.io
Everyone acknowledges tension b/w growth and climate goals, but it's not as simplistic as "it's good".
On tech, politics is inherent to arguments for CDR/CCS/demand growth. We just disagree on strategy sometimes.
#greensky 🔌💡
Everyone acknowledges tension b/w growth and climate goals, but it's not as simplistic as "it's good".
On tech, politics is inherent to arguments for CDR/CCS/demand growth. We just disagree on strategy sometimes.
#greensky 🔌💡
You didn't read carefully enough, that's simply not true.
February 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
You didn't read carefully enough, that's simply not true.
Last month I ran my hybrid heat pump system without using gas backup through a historic cold snap. My incremental peak load was only 3kW.
Flukes happen, so was very pleased to hit design day temps around 1am last night and continuing to hold this morning with at -17/18C, or ~0F.
🔌💡 #heatpumps
Flukes happen, so was very pleased to hit design day temps around 1am last night and continuing to hold this morning with at -17/18C, or ~0F.
🔌💡 #heatpumps
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Last month I ran my hybrid heat pump system without using gas backup through a historic cold snap. My incremental peak load was only 3kW.
Flukes happen, so was very pleased to hit design day temps around 1am last night and continuing to hold this morning with at -17/18C, or ~0F.
🔌💡 #heatpumps
Flukes happen, so was very pleased to hit design day temps around 1am last night and continuing to hold this morning with at -17/18C, or ~0F.
🔌💡 #heatpumps
Ugh...gonna have to start sending in my own meter reading every month... nat gas billing systems were not designed for hybrid heating.
Mostly water heating, but you can see that last feb and march i used a bit to heat in hybrid mode. This Jan ran 100% electric so water heating only.
#energysky
Mostly water heating, but you can see that last feb and march i used a bit to heat in hybrid mode. This Jan ran 100% electric so water heating only.
#energysky
February 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Ugh...gonna have to start sending in my own meter reading every month... nat gas billing systems were not designed for hybrid heating.
Mostly water heating, but you can see that last feb and march i used a bit to heat in hybrid mode. This Jan ran 100% electric so water heating only.
#energysky
Mostly water heating, but you can see that last feb and march i used a bit to heat in hybrid mode. This Jan ran 100% electric so water heating only.
#energysky
February 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
February 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I would highlight, and did in a DM to @roycerk2.bsky.social, that this is a specific and isolated case. Ontario's grid continues to have large amount of wind and the article gives a mistaken impression of this case being the "destruction of wind". They are now planned to procure more.
February 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I would highlight, and did in a DM to @roycerk2.bsky.social, that this is a specific and isolated case. Ontario's grid continues to have large amount of wind and the article gives a mistaken impression of this case being the "destruction of wind". They are now planned to procure more.
On Bluesky, people block you when they disagree with you, mostly once they've lost the argument.
Hilariously this guy dismissed my opinion based on a typo inadvertently pluralizing "hydrogen" 🤣
#greensky #energysky
Hilariously this guy dismissed my opinion based on a typo inadvertently pluralizing "hydrogen" 🤣
#greensky #energysky
February 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
On Bluesky, people block you when they disagree with you, mostly once they've lost the argument.
Hilariously this guy dismissed my opinion based on a typo inadvertently pluralizing "hydrogen" 🤣
#greensky #energysky
Hilariously this guy dismissed my opinion based on a typo inadvertently pluralizing "hydrogen" 🤣
#greensky #energysky