Barry Ritnolz says this might be the most bullish signal he has seen all year.

On this hottest day of the year (106F) I’m sitting here in the air conditioning checking out the status of the Texas Power Grid on the ERCOT Dashboard. Seems all is well. Renewables about a third with two thirds still gas and coal. Did see this list on Forbes about priorities for Electrifying Everything.

The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work

I keep seeing these stories about how the Energy Transition is stalling. I’m not sure what is so hard to understand about more modern electricity generation replacing ones from previous centuries. Maybe clean, cheap electricity just sounds too good to be true.

Negative Power Prices Hit Europe as Renewable Energy Floods the Grid

Saw this rain and flooding mentioned on the news. Did not see that it was a “once in 1,000 year” rainfall. Of that it happened twice that day, at different times, 35 miles apart.

On one night, two places in the Northeast get hit with 1-in-1,000 year rainfall

Last year China added more solar capacity than the US has in total. From Quartz.

China added more solar power last year than America has, period

Landlords use this sort of software (and I presume pay to use it) because it increases rents they collect. So that part of the question is easy. Is this collection and centralizing of data illegal? Well it’s good for landlords, perhaps very good. And bad for renters (perhaps very bad). If you haven’t been involved in renting an apartment in a major US city in recent years you may not realize how abusive it has become.

RealPage Has Been Accused of Price-Fixing Rents. Now It’s on the Offensive

Sad news. From the BBC.

YouTube’s former chief Susan Wojcicki dies aged 56

The original scientific publications describing greenhouse gasses and climate change to back to at least 1824.

The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s

I always wondered why there wasn’t more of this in the US and the world, especially as climate disasters become more common and more severe. From the BBC.

Hurricane blackouts: New Orleans’ ‘lighthouse’ solution to keep the power on through floods and high winds

Whenever I travel, if there is public rail transport I try to take it. Mostly just to have a look. I didn’t realize that the US was actually ahead in public rail until somewhat recently. Of course older cities like Boston, New York and Washington DC have subways, but newer “Sunbelt” cities have relied exclusively on cars. I have a deep suspicion that you can’t be a world class city without good public mass transit. Some cities like Dallas, Phoenix and Atlanta are trying to add rail, but after building out a cars-only city it may be a tough job. From The Urban Condition.

America’s Transit Exceptionalism