STUFF

NCEN/CBWP to co-develop 200MW wind farm in ND. Using GE 1.5MW turbines.

First Wind's 102MW wind farm in UT now online. GE 1.5's. PPA with So Cal Pub Pwr Auth.

Shear Wind (TSX:SWY) - 62% owned by a Spanish comp - opened 62MW wind farm in Nova Scotia. Phases 2 and 3 could realize another 170MW. Other Can properties for dev.

GE expects to exceed 12.8% for CdTe solar efficiency record when its 1st commercial-scale factory opens in '13. 14-15% "in the cards". FSLR to be left behind? FSLR partnered up with China Power Intl.

Alaska oil pipeline facing shutdown with low oil supplies. Running ~ 7kb/p, 1/3 of peak. If that don't wake peeps up...

Cogentrix - sub of Goldman - got conditional commit from DOE for $90.6M loan guarantee for 30MW high-concentration PV (CPV) project in CO. Target mid-'12 completion. Plans to use Amonix panels. Pub Svc Co - sub of Xcel E - to buy the power. 1st guarantee for a CPV project. Soitec awaits decision on 150MW project near San Diego.

Est. 20-40% of potential crop harvests in developing nations lost from pests, pathogens. Low hanging fruit with 2B more peeps to feed in '50. We're going to pass through 7B sometime late this year. 7 billion people. I remember when we reached 6 back in the 90's somewhere. Maybe just after the Cold War ended. I know, who remembers the Cold War?

Solar farms' "sweet spot" in 10-50MW range. Lower for East Coast, higher for West Coast.

Germany could close the last of their 17 nuke plants in a decade. A gov commission said replacement wind and NG plants could be built by then.

GE, Toshiba, Honeywell and ABB going after Landis & Gyr, Swiss leading maker of smart meters.

Here we go. Here's something. You remember the subprime mortgage securitization thingy, right? Um, what we're still trying to dig out of? Right. You know. Well, now, there's a report the same thing is being started with life insurance policies. Bets on peoples' early demise. Largely unregulated. Aimed at peeps who can't or are tired of paying premiums and cash out for 20 cents on the dollar to the securitization industry. The insurance comps don't like it because the premiums get paid and they will have to pay out eventually. Well, interesting world, A?