Sports:
The Rockies Believe They Have an Unbreakable Code. So did the Nazis.

Energy:
PG&E Found at Fault for Starting 3 of Last Year’s California Wildfires. So we should bury power lines. Except maybe not.
The trouble with a lot of green energy economics is that a little bit is great, but each additional unit brings less marginal surplus. One example in batteries. Another estimate in renewable generation.
Don’t Call It a Comeback: Demand Response Rebounds in Latest PJM Capacity Auction.

Sports:
Supreme Court strikes down Nevada’s monopoly on sports gambling. One take on how states should react and how quickly.
Primer on vertigo in sports.
Luck or skill?

Energy:
After Two Years as an Oracle Company, What’s Next for Opower?
Harry Reid is retired, is Yucca Mountain back on the table?

Sports:
“Tuesday, he said he got 24 balls total – 17 in batting practice, two tossed from the dugout during batting practice, one from a Brewers player near the bullpen before the game, a warm-up ball from Billy Hamilton and the three home runs.” From The Athletic.

Energy:
Lopsided growth of wind power in the US.

Installation costs so much that it’s better to use expensive solar panels.

Sports:
First pitcher in baseball history with at least eight strikeouts in a game during which every out he recorded was a strikeout. With a generous strike zone. The Athletic subscription req’d. More words about Hader.

Energy:
Portugal’s renewable production exceeds total consumption in March. Wow. “Hydroelectricity and wind energy accounted for the lion’s share of renewable energy production, with 55% and 42% respectively.”

Last year, oil and gas companies in North Dakota flared over $220 million worth of natural gas.
First Solar expanding operations in Ohio.

Sports:
The Reds Have a Baseball Unicorn, so Why Aren’t They Developing the Next Shohei Ohtani?
Superstars in the NBA playoffs, and the heightening of income inequality. Speculative, as Tyler Cowen would say.
Nobody had any idea what was going on in the Pacers-Cavs Game 4 finish.

Energy:
Tech firms like Google, Amazon push power companies toward solar and wind, a blow to coal. “It’s become such a movement that last year, U.S. corporations bought more renewable power than utilities did.”

Other:
How many Americans there are at each age and sex.

Sports:
I prefer it when my links are about on-field actions, but it’s been a slow week. The Reds have not been good, and I haven’t watched other sports.
NBA2K League players paid more than G-League players.
The Marlins Will Sue Almost Anyone.
The carriage fee for Pac-12 Network is way down.

Energy:
Drones Are Lowering the Cost of Clean Energy.

Other:
It’s time to rebuild the web.

Dash writes about the demise of the View Source browser feature, which dispays the HTML from which the web page is built. View Source isn’t dead, but it’s sick. He’s right that the web succeeded, in part, because people with little background could look at the source for the pages they liked, copy the code they wanted, and end up with something that looks pretty good. Today, you can no longer learn by copying; while View Source still exists on most browsers, the complexity of modern web pages have made it next to useless. The bits you want are wrapped in megabytes (literally) of JavaScript and CSS.

and

Much as we may complain about Facebook, selecting relevant content from an ocean of random sites is an important service. It’s easy for me to imagine relatives and friends building their own sites for baby pictures, announcements, and general talk. That’s what we did in the 90s. But would we go to the trouble of reading those all those sites? Probably not. I didn’t in the 90s, and neither did you.

We already have a tool for solving this problem. RSS lets websites provide “feeds” of news and new items. Applications like Feedly and Reeder let you build a collection of sites that interest you, and show you what’s changed since the last time you visited. While I’d never check a dozen sites each day, I use Feedly to monitor hundreds of websites. I would never check those sites by hand, but I scan Feedly every morning. And, unlike Facebook, Feedly doesn’t know anything about its users except for the sites they read.

You should really use Feedly.