STUFF

ENA - Enova Systems - up 66% yesterday after reporting 152% rev increase to $3.7M for the latest Q. Wow, A? All of 3.7. But they make hybrid vehicle drive systems and announced a partnership with LG Chem. But no profit and no profit on the horizon. Typical startup story.

EFOI and NEXS just need a few big contracts to take off. EFOI's new tech being used by Navy to go commercial in '12 and sales expected to pick up 2Q11.

Morgan Stanley sees EV's competitive in 10 years. Their $135 target for TSLA based on EV market share of 7% by '20, 21% by '25.

Atlantic Wind Connection asked Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to add 1 more GW to the 6 proposed for the offshore wind "transmission backbone" and a grid connect into NYC. Regional grid - PJM - covers 13 states and has yet to take state RPS's into account. FERC may soon order a change on that. One study put "backbone" cost @ $3-5B. Cheaper than each windfarm connecting independently. Next step is for Interior to publish notice asking if others are interested in the right-of-ways.

New type of ICE promises striking fuel economy boost and reduced GHG's, of course. Achates Power, EcoMotors, Pinnacle Engines building variations on opposed piston engine. Space between opposing pistons forms the combustion chamber. Lighter, cheaper, greater power density. Less E wasted as heat. Used in ships and WW2 fighter planes. Considered too expensive, impractical for autos. Yea right. They can run on variety of fuels w/out performance loss. Up to 30% more efficient. You know, it's been 50 years since we've heard a "before this decade is out..." speech. It seems about time.

Berkeley Earth Surface Temp Study: rise of .7 degrees Celsius since '57. 1957. Remember Ike? "Similar" to findings by NASA, NOAA and UK's Hadley.

An MIT professor called for accelerated transfer of spent nuke rods from storage at plants to concrete and steel casks. Fed gov should create regional storage until a better solution arises. We already wasted $10B on Yucca. Spent fuel pools now covered with sheet metal roofs for Godssakes. You can't make this stuff up. O, but cask storage is expensive. Well, hell folks, let's just stick with coal if that's how much our utilities care about our lives.

1GW grid between UK and Holland went live today. National Grid and TenneT brought the 500M pound sterling project in on time and on budget. Helps manage intermittent clean elgen.

I think I edited out all the April Fools jokes. Happy trails, pards.