STUFF

Earth's core may have another layer. A new outermost layer of core found. May solve mysteries of the mag field. Lighter elements like O and S migrated out from core over time. Spin of core thought to power the field. But the lighter liquid rose up, imparting energy down, driving the core flow, which helped keep the field running. Gotta love science and engineering. Especially the Almighty's.

Thailand: 4.3GW clean E with FITs since intro '06 program. Now 850MW online. Program requires $6/kw deposit. 1.4GW solar therm, 2.1GW biomass under contract. Net metering. Projects limited to 10MW. Total pay ~38cents/kwh. Solar contracts good for 10 yrs.

We are 13% energy efficient in US.

Over 20k known varieties of algae.

Global warming is in a temporary halt. Natural cycles. And we're not talking winter.

Worldwide fossil fuels get 12x the subsidies of clean E. In '09 Exxon spent more on lobbying than the entire clean E industry. We've talked about this.

NREL generated 2 energetic electronic states from 1 photon. The 1st molecular system to produce 2 triplet states from an excited singlet state w/ essentially perfect efficiency. Sounds like something exciting going in some state. Could be 35% increase in solar efficiency. And there's more but I even couldn't understand my notes. Work to do there.

Japan 3Q revised up to 4.5%.

Excelon will close US' oldest nuke in '19, 10 yrs ahead of sked so they won't have to build cooling towers at disputed cost ($200-800M) but can continue to kill billions of shrimp, crabs, fish and other aqua creatures, let alone the plankton out of Barnegat Bay for 10 more yrs. Went online in '69. Sucks 1.4B gal/day out of the Bay. 9% of NJ's el. One more reason for Earth Day.

I'm sure you saw this. American homes worth $1.7T less this year than last. '09 drop was $1T. Total loss since '06 $9T. They did go up one hell of a lot before '06, let us remember that.

Jefferies believes fears about German solar biz slowdown is overblown and found the Germs still committed to 18% clean E by '20. No solar cap in '11 but they want to prevent a 10GW boom in '11 and freefall in '12. Among the picks: SATC, JASO.

FSLR announced a 15MW sale to India. Piper Jaff believes FSLR will guide higher on the 14th. SPWR has booked $100M in the last month and announced another today.

US Tax Grant Program - "1603" - has spent $1.3B to leverage $18B in 1179 clean E projects in 42 states to date. Set to expire end of year. Created jobs in all 50 states. Solar employs 93k in US. 60k more in next few yrs they say if 1603 extended. Wind industry to be flat or down if not extended. May be a fight there too.

Well, pards. Keep thy powder dry and thy heads held high.