STUFF

Italy seized $2B of Mafia assets laundering money through wind farms and solar factories. Most in Sicily. Corleone.

GM and other companies invested $4.2M into next-gen lith-ion batt tech. Shouldn't GM be paying back the government first? O, what's a few million.

Zinc Air (private company) bought Lawrence Livermore rights to zinc-air fuel cell tech. Odd. PWAZ had them last I checked. Anyway, may they build them and sell them. Please. Zinc's cheap. Air's cheap. Totally recyclable.

MIT using carbon nanotubes to concentrate solar energy 100x more than current solar cells. Let us get that licensed out to a manufacturer, A?

60 nuclear reactors now under construction in world. Mideast countries getting busy with contracts.

Dow Chem going to be marketing solar shingles. Chevron to build world's largest solar plant. More of the big dogs getting into the biz.

China wind capacity to hit 40GW by end of '10. Projecting 200GW by '20. Siemens unveiled a 3MW direct-drive wind turbine. No gearbox. Half the parts. GE bought a Norwegian comp with direct-drive tech last year. Going with a 4MW turbine. But the required magnets are another dig into rare earth metal use, 95% mined by China.

LED retrofits at Applebee's yield an avg 80% light load reduction. EU ban on 75W incandescents took effect Sept 1. Banned 100W last Sept.

Global market for EVs and hybrids forecast to be $22B by '15. $32M in '09.

Goldman strategist: market value of emerging market stocks expected to quintuple next 20 yrs to $80T. Next few yrs, IMF expects BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) to produce 5x more GDP growth than G7.

80% of recoverable bitumen of Canada oil sands too deep to be mined.

Global fuel cell market to reach $1B by '14.