STUFF

S. Korea, India signed nuclear co-op agreement. S. Korea to export. India has 20 nukes. Building 6. Plans 40 more by '32.

Germany approved a more aggressive renewable E law. We always perk up when Germany gets more aggressive about anything. Just kidding. Ha ha. Law goes into effect Jan 1. 35% renewable el supply by '20, 50% by '30, 65% by '40, 80% by '50. I guess mandatory, yah?

US automakers agreed upon 54.5mpg by '25. Always gotta be that point 5. Really. 5% /yr improvement for cars, 3.5% for light duty trux. $1.7T the est. amount of savings at the gas pump thru '25. $8k over car life. 12B bls oil saved. 2.2mb/d not used in '25. 28.3mpg the current fleet avg. 6B metric tons of GHGs eliminated thru '25. 8.5M EVs by '20. EV can go 457 miles on el produced from 1kcf of NG from local utility. And on we go.

JUHL did LOI with Zinc Air to install 1MW E storage system @ MN wind farm. Zinc air fuel cells. Hello. Does it get cheaper?

CA issued nation's first hex chromium standard. Remember the movie with Julia's cleavage?

Android bulb. LED coming out later this year from Google and LSCG. Will connect to Android phones and other devices. NXP Semi to supply the chips it's told.

GM Ventures put $7.5M - there's that point 5 again - into Sunlogics. Amorphous silicon solar garage stalls. Amorphous still stuck in 7-9% efficiency range. Not enough amor? (Constellation E to install 5.4MW amorphous array on Toys-R-Us shipping facility's 1.3M sq ft roof).

Human brains are 3% of body weight yet use 20% of body energy.

Onward and upward pards. Let's look see what our Congress and President will come up with for us now, A? Believe in good news. Because that-R-us.