EcoNet News, V26 #6, 6/29/2024 presents highlights from Ted’s trip to San Francisco to cheer on Matlock, daughter Kristin’s boyfriend who was competing in the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon. He also reports that renewables provided more than 30% of all U.S. electrical generation in the month of April, highlights a German research team testing new module concepts, integrating solar into sound walls along busy highways and railways, integrating Energy Vault’s gravity energy storage (GES) into skyscrapers, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative in northern New Mexico’s clean and green position, AI’s energy intensity, the quest for climate-friendly food, and Lufthansa’s environmental cost surcharge.