Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

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Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.

A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US

Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…

canarymedia.com

In the November elections, to be radical is to be pragmatic.

I got hit on my bike by someone making a an oncoming left into me

“Brandon,” a Bluesky commenter@bedubble.bsky.social · 2d ago

Cold urbanist take: ban right turns on red lights Hot urbanist take: ban left turns on unprotected greens

We can't solve a housing crisis without building more housing. Today we broke ground on the Casanova Residence, which will soon be nearly 100 affordable and supportive homes with on-site services for New Yorkers. Every new home is a step toward a City that everyone can afford.

We welcome any and all MacArthur slander

Zach Dorfman@zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Continuing my Korean War/Halberstam posting: It’s hard to convey how malignant Douglas MacArthur was, how anti-democratic, what a persistent threat to civil-military relations. Conversely, George Marshall was a man of towering integrity and wisdom.

This banger from @wlknsn.xyz was in my memories archive.ph/LvNg9

Taking transit in Warsaw 🇵🇱, having trouble tracking the bus stops here on Foursquare. Need @rcauvin.bsky.social to visit and create all the stops 😅😂🚍🚌🚋

“Liberals will always choose fascism over socialism” is one of this website’s conventional ways of saying “I am stupid and I prefer reading the opinions of other stupid people”. It is good when stupid people self-identify, so we should not complain when they do so 

Part of treating blue states like we're occupied territory is denying us the protection of the military we pay for (protection we only need because of Trump's illegal war in Iran)

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d ago

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz responds to Trump: “DOGE took an axe to CISA and left the U.S. exposed to cyber attacks."

destroy the nest of vipers

Gothamist@gothamist.com · 5d ago

NY looks to shut down Kalshi, have it pay $36 billion in new lawsuit gothamist.com/news/ny-look...

The D9 FY26–27 Budget Open House has been rescheduled to Thursday, August 6, 6–7 PM at Austin Energy Headquarters. Join me to learn about the proposed City budget, ask questions, & share your priorities before Council votes. If you RSVP’d for the original date, please RSVP again tinyurl.com/mjtff8f9

I'm on a train (tram)!

“Biking advocates are not good people, unlike me, a guy who killed someone while driving”

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 6d ago

Not only does this guy refer to his own act of manslaughter as "MY trauma," he also calls it "the fatal accident I was in" as if a court did not find him legally liable for it. www.instagram.com/p/DbZgUOsC8_1/

a future D administration should make an easy pathway to citizenship specifically for foreign students

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6d ago

One weird trick to literally destroy America www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Every diploma should come with a green card

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6d ago

a future D administration should make an easy pathway to citizenship specifically for foreign students

One of the great Alt Left lies was that they didn’t have anything against Ukraine they just didn’t want to be paying billions of dollars to support it. Here we are, not paying any appreciable sums to support the war, & these guys are still at it

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 6d ago

Cenk Uygur: "I'm done officially with supporting the Ukrainians' war. So, it's been a long time now, seem like they've been at war for 18 years now."

CONFESSION: Sometimes I stare at the 26 newsletters in my inbox everyday and think: "what was so bad about RSS feeds"

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

The thing about this joke is that the people angry over data centers do not understand this joke.

if you're bad at driving you shouldn't do it

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

You can learn more on our site or via @mcbl.bike . Also be sure to check out @communitypedalpower.org & @wababikelibrary.bsky.social ! We each have slightly different models but all focused on supporting folks to borrow and learn more about ecargo bikes.

MN Cargo Bike Library

Visit the post for more.

mcbl.bike

I wanna hear more about the cargo bike lending library! Cc: @safestreetsaustin.bsky.social @aura-atx.org

Laura G Mitchell@lauragmitchell.com · last wk.

When the algorithm feeds me something truly silly (and not aligned with my interests), I must fix it. Dressed simple because the *bike* is the outfit.

My opinion about cable cars as urban transit is the same as for ferries (and "BRTs") They work better than other modes in specific geographic conditions and demand pattern. But they aren't that "one simple trick" that can replace other modes cheaply/more easily, as they are too often marketed.

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇@taras-grescoe.com · last wk.

Can a cable car be a legit form of urban transit? I took a ride on Europe's newest, and longest, aerial tramway, the C1 in #Paris, to find out. (In the video: we're overflying a national highway + a high-speed rail line.) More in this week's HIGH SPEED dispatch: www.highspeed.blog/up-where-the...

I want you to repeat after me: NIMBYism leads to a cost of living crisis that results in mass trans suffering. YIMBYism allows trans people to flee to cities that welcome them, so they can be who they are, rebuild their lives, and contribute to the social and economic fabric.

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · last wk.

“There has been persecution in the form of increased social scrutiny, harassment and violence. And there has been persecution in the undercutting of access to vital, lifesaving gender-affirming medication despite the overwhelming medical consensus for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

In which the President of the United States continues to tax American consumers and businesses…just because he feels like it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

KILMEADE: Are you worried the tariffs you put forward over the last couple days will hurt the economy? TRUMP: No, because it's bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars

Gdańsk train station bathroom 🚾 is a about $1. I ain't mad. I'd rather have abundant restrooms that are low cost usage than insufficient (nominally) free restrooms.

Loving this part of my Polish cousin's introduction for me (meeting his friends): "and why a country that builds ten-lane highways can't build itself a tram."

Musk did not just decide not to provide people with life saving aid. He *broke the law* in order to *deny promised aid*. 1