U.S. Rooftop Solar Bust: Journalistic Misdirection

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 29, 2026

“Energy writer Felicity Bradstock had a mission: to put lipstick on the pig–and probably in conjunction with the rent-seeking, crony-capitalist Solar Energy Industries Association. Only the end of state and federal subsidies can cut the solar industry down to size and close the SEIA.”

MasterResource has chronicled the bust of the U.S. rooftop solar industry (86 firms as of a year ago), led by Houston-based Sunnova [1]. The major story is degrowth and litigation, as victims try to escape long-term contracts with defunct or shaky companies.

The bust occurred despite rooftop solar’s Investment Tax Credit (ITC), state-level net metering laws, and other subsidies–all to turn uneconomic, dilute, intermittent solar into a grid-competitive electricity source. Even with this, smoke-and-mirror long-term (15- to 30-year) warranty contracts were necessary to levelize the cost to something affordable.…

‘Masculinity and the Metacrisis’ (going weird on climate)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 28, 2026

“… both genders have an equal stake in human betterment and win by using the best energies. Climate change is not the end-of-the-world but can be anticipated and adapted to in economic and political freedom, not Statism. Common sense 101 will prevail over the climate fringe.”

Climate messaging is in crisis–and getting stranger and stranger. The fringe will not give up, and their interpretation of the ‘problem’ is going off the rails.

Today (May 28), DeSmog, Centre for Climate Psychology, and Resonant Man are hosting a virtual discussion on “Masculinity and the Metacrisis.” Geoff Dembicki, global managing editor at DeSmog, reports:

The rise of the ‘Manosphere.’ The Epstein files. Attacks on women’s rights under the Trump administration. Given so many high-profile examples of men’s abuses of power, it’s no wonder many men are questioning the meaning of masculinity in this current political moment. And

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Memorial Day Weekend! (Motoring to summer ’26)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 22, 2026

Get happy. Summer beckons. Not only hike and bike but drive to a better environment–your self-selected one. And once there, grill, baby, grill.

The automobile is environmentalism-on-wheels. The open road is freedom to escape the concrete for the great beyond. Mountains, rivers, hills, forests, even beautiful green golf courses–it is all a drive away.

The old Marathon ads said it best …a full tank of freedom. And Shell: “Let’s Go!” And Exxon: “Happy Motoring!”

Don’t worry about the anti-travel crowd who fret about emissions of the trace greening gas, carbon dioxide. Forget the spin and go for a spin!

Each year, MasterResource celebrates the beginning of the peak-driving season knowing that our free-market philosophy is about energy abundance and affordability and reliability. There is so little to apologize for. When is the last time you got a bad tank of gasoline or diesel, anyway?…