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

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.

bloomberg.com

The pattern of softening deaths due to public policy decisions with "underlying health issues" is so toxic. How many people over 50 do not have an underlying health issue? I'm pretty healthy but probably have at least two or three of those.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

I've been seeing a lot of people responding to this with "there ought to be a law," but importantly, we haven't needed a law for this sort of thing because no prior president wanted to be known as a leader who would literally kill people in their hour of need for not voting for him

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something

If they can do it, so can everybody else Wind and solar power overtake fossil fuels in Germany for first time ever Solar and onshore wind have grown rapidly under Germany’s “Energiewende” strategy over the past two decades, as the nation transitions away from both coal and nuclear power. 

Prisons and hospitals should not be privately held.

When you worship power, compassion will look like a sin.

Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps

Our poll finds that 79% of voters want a constitutional amendment that restores limits on money in elections.

A federal judge just ordered all of the Epstein files to be turned over to him and DOJ must defend each redaction. This is solely because of Katie Phang’s lawsuit. Yay independent journalism

Wars over Oil: 12 Wars over Renewable Energy: 0

This is probably the start of the green revelation. Not intentionally. But so many places and companies are seeing the risk in the oil supply chain and are pivoting. Hard. From solar to wind, alternatives are taking so much of the load that the power landscape will look very different in a decade

Seems to me like something we ought to know.

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 2w ago

its been like 5 weeks now since we’ve had an accurate and reliable count of how many us senators are alive

Yes, he really is that petty.

Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦@marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Take a look at Trump‘s face when Spanish goalkeeper Unai Simon snubbed Trump, and hugged Mark Carney. That hug cost Canadians an increase in tariffs.

There's only one country on earth, under the control of the fossil fuels industry, where a huge effort is underway to stop the shift to renewables: the United States under Trump. The shift is unstoppable just the same. www.bbc.com/news/science...

World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says

The world is shifting rapidly to clean energy but still investing too much in fossil fuels, the IEA says.

bbc.com

VOTE BLUE 💙, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO.......🌊

Bernie's Correct, Again......

This is a sure sign that the right wing thinks Trump's speech last night was a dud. No coverage for 2 hours on "Fox & Friends," and Fox's website isn't leading with it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

incredible -- more than two hours into this morning's Fox & Friends, "fraud" has not been mentioned a single time and hosts haven't discussed Trump's big primetime speech at all. They have 787 million reasons to ignore it.

If the networks wanted to be responsible, they‘d tape-delay Trump’s speech tonight, thoroughly fact-check it, and then broadcast it, stopping every time Trump lied and explaining the lie, then resuming. They‘d headline this report honestly. If he lies (as he always does), they’d use the word “lie.”

SOLAR IS WINNING 👀

Amen to this.

capitolhunters@capitolhunters.bsky.social · 3w ago

Journalists: please, please get ready for this in ADVANCE. We know Trump's going to claim "new evidence shows the 2020 election was stolen". You've got 3 days to write a story that confronts that lie head-on before he says it - pre-write this like an obit. America is begging you: plan ahead. 1/

Yes.

@billkittle.bsky.social · 4w ago

In the US our government is paying to cancel clean energy projects.

Deep concern about democracy and equality spans ideological divides. Yet political parties have not offered a vision for what happens next. bit.ly/4bz3ILx

A Time for Ideas

Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidency all need to reform.

brennancenter.org

Let's do some popularism!

Data for Progress@dataforprogress.org · 4w ago

NEW: Our first report on the swing voters of the 2026 midterms finds that when they are asked which policies would make them definitely vote for a Democrat, the most selected option is “raise taxes on the wealthy,” followed by “create a Medicare for All health care system.”

Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.

Philadelphia cancels 4th of July parade due to extreme heat, organizers say

Philadelphia's Salute to Independence parade has been canceled due to extreme heat in the weather forecast.

cbsnews.com

‘More than 11,000 trains have circulated over the solar panels…installation “perfectly stable and safe during their passage”…railway solar plant produced >16,000 kWh of electricity since May 20, 2025…100 meters of solar panels…initial trial phase in Buttes amounts to CHF585,000 ($704,600)’

Solar energy from railways shows first positive results in Switzerland

The world’s first removable solar power plant, installed alongside a railway line, is now operational in Switzerland. It is attracting interest in Italy, France and Asia.

swissinfo.ch

ieefa.org/articles/val...

Valuing the Future: Pennsylvania’s shrinking fossil fuel footprint leaves a widening fiscal gap

Pennsylvania’s budget is heading for a crisis and fossil fuels are not coming to the rescue, according to a new report out today from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)....

ieefa.org