Christian Zabbal (@zabbalc) 's Twitter Profile
Christian Zabbal

@zabbalc

Trying to bring capital to new ideas in new forms. It's more fun than it sounds.

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calendar_today22-10-2012 02:51:19

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So apparently the next PM of the UK is really intent on going back to fossil fuels. Which cost more now than renewables. Which would also expose the UK to a ton of price volatility for gas. And which would make the UK miss their ca…lnkd.in/ewjiENpF lnkd.in/e66K_Wwy

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Remember my last post, about how Liz Truss wanted to save the land in England from solar panels so that farmers can grow food? And how ridiculous that was, because golf courses take up 20X more land than all the solar panels combin…lnkd.in/ewXy5H8p lnkd.in/ePkJ8XB7

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Electrical vehicles will overtake combustion engines by 2036 - a bit over 10 years from now, under current trends (I'd be surprised if that doesn't accelerate, but ok). There is a fair bit of action these days on sustainable aviati…lnkd.in/eqFffc_Y lnkd.in/eRWyHH5d

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Solar cannot substitute completely for gas, but an entire continent is about to perform a real-time, emergency drill on just how close it can come. lnkd.in/dD4rMHEt

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China is roasting under a massive heatwave that has lasted 70 days now which is slowly destroying their crops, their transport infrastructure, and forcing cities to turn subways into shelters. So random. Who could see a heatwave…lnkd.in/eU-hrS8r lnkd.in/e96ptbte

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Every few years, someone does a study to see how much the world would save - in pure direct costs, not in health or climate or other secondary effects - if we switched completely from fossils to renewables. The latest one is by Oxf…lnkd.in/ebddBUfZ lnkd.in/eNtfHvBh

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🇺🇦 I am just back from the mass graves site in Izium. It is worse than anything you can imagine. I can confirm that at least part of the people recently buried there were tortured and had violent deaths.

🇺🇦 I am just back from the mass graves site in Izium.

It is worse than anything you can imagine.

I can confirm that at least part of the people recently buried there were tortured and had violent deaths.
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An interesting summary of where we are, climate-wise. Not good, but also not as bad as it could have been without all the work of the past 15 years... lnkd.in/eeFeBvg4

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Developer U! Every year, we invite a number of our investor friends - venture GPs, debt providers, family offices and others - to invite a couple of their CEOs to Developer U. This is our annual 2-day offsite where CEOs of sustainable infrastructure disc…lnkd.in/dPeJUQeU

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I once spent some time working through how expensive gas cars would be if we charged back the health issues associated with air pollution back onto the manufacturers (rather than the public purse). It was around $4k per vehicle sol…lnkd.in/ea4ghzgC lnkd.in/exT-gkxy

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A lot of industries that are being reshaped by the transition to sustainable, more climate friendly solutions have not exactly embraced the transition. Car manufacturers largely waited for Tesla to start affecting their sales signi…lnkd.in/evY9P5wy lnkd.in/eVPHez4m

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Hey good news! Penetration of electric cars is higher than almost all the analysts predicted even 3 years ago: lnkd.in/eywNMYJ3

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$77B a year in health costs due to fossil fuels industry extraction... that the public picks up. Another call it, $25B in direct tax subsidies for that same extraction. So let's say, conservatively, $100B in subsidies, in the U…lnkd.in/eB4qgypj lnkd.in/eFKffHe7