'10 railcar loadings up 7.3%, largest % increase since the data started ('88). More from rail being more economical than trucks than the economy improving, my thought on it. Talk about hard to find numbers. I unloaded a bunch of railcars myself back in '78 I think. Yea '78. Ballast gravel for the new railyard we were building. Sledgehammer to open up the railcar doors. $9/hr.
China - always China in'it? - may double their '15 target for solar capacity to 10GW. Go China.
Ethiopia - wow, there's a country always hogging the news - started construction on the biggest hydro project to ever hit the Nile. Or Africa. A 4-yr build of 5.25GW for $4.7B.
Is this report from Italy the real deal? Jan 14 public demo in Bologna (that might be a clue) of a desktop-size reactor that produced 11kw of power. Fueled by nickel powder and H. And alchemy? Gram of nickel generates 2mwh. Okey dokey. I truly hope it's true. The box in the device now being mass produced in FL for Oct. delivery to licensee in Greece. 100 units will be connected to make a 1MW demo plant. I say Godspeed.
A major NG find off west coast of Australia by Apache at 13k feet under 1k feet water. Go Apache.
Libyan rebs are hopefully loading the Greek 1M bl tanker tonight (their time) with their oil. Qatar the possible buyer. Up to 3M bls in storage at the port. And reportedly some wells in rebs' control still producing.
Near-record Q for US VC investments in clean E for 1Q11. 115 deals, $2.6B. 3Q08 $2.8B the tops. '10 total $3.7B. World was $7.8B. Biggest deals: Bright Source E $200M for CSP tech/deploy; Fisker Auto $150M for EV production; and Plasco E Grp $145M for muni waste to E tech.
And those are our happy trails pards.
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