Sauds, China plan to sign nuke coop agreement. Kingdom already signed with France.
CA E Commission awarded $500k to Applied Materials for research on more cost-effective manufacturing of LEDs. Project total cost $8.7M. AM also received $4M from stimulus money via DOE.
Bloomberg and Clinton grouping up. Going for bldg E reductions, mass transit and landfill E reuse.
EU has proposed restrucuring of their fuel and heating oil taxes.
Japan considering fewer, more efficient reactors. Um, how about on the west coast instead of fault line/tsunami coast. For starters.
Elimination of White House office of E/clime change a key democratic concession in the budget deal. And elimination of proposed funding that states hoped to use to implement new climate regs. Gotta love those republican priorities.
World's first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant has been built in Italy.
National Boat Racing Association adopted E10 as '11 official fuel. How about sails?
Computer servers use ~2.5% of US el. Lighting uses 22%.
Now 4 companies doing solar leasing. CentroSolar/BrightGrid joined Solar City, Sungevity and Sun Run.
Germany has a feed-in tariff for biomass power. 1k biomass plants built there in last few years.
Harvest Power (MA) developing energy/fertilizer production from organic waste. Just raised $50M, most from Europe. Broke ground on 1st commercial scale facility in N. Am.
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