STUFF

Dudes. This is starting to be work.

National Solar Power to build $1.5B/400MW solar farms in FL. To be SE's largest solar effort. Company that re-built Pentagon after 9/11 to design, build, operate the farm. 5-yr buildout. NSP has PPA's for >3GW of solar in SE.

NIST researchers using "molecular-scale 'veins' of iron permeating grains of magnesium" in new way to store H.

Invenergy, DTE Energy broke ground on 212MW wind farm in MI. Online 1Q12. 133 GE turbines.

Agilyx - OR start-up - has system to convert plastic waste into crude oil. Hopes to sell commercial units in 9 months. $5M unit can turn 40k lb of plastic into 130bls of oil. ~7-10lb of plastic for 1 gal of gas (oil produced at ~$52/bl). Muni solid waste in US ~243M tons/y. Waste Management, Total, Kleiner investing in it. Est. 2T tons of plastic in US landfills. And you can't generate methane from trash piles without taking out the plastic.

Obama appointed major campaign contibutors to DOE loan program. Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again. All our political campaigns should be publicly financed. And the TV time given free for debates.

Louisiana wants an LNG export terminal.

TVA constructed dikes with weaker materials: expert testified in spill case. Watch out on those new nuke plants they want.

USDA: most farmers improperly apply nitrogen fertilizer.

A judge halted construction plans for Amazon dam ... plants more powerful C eaters than previously thought ... microbe-based biofuel being developed as diesel alternative ... costs of shutting down German nuke plants continues to rise - economically and environmentally ... Israel could be next fossil fuel giant ... my guess is West Bank, Qulf of Aqaba and Meditteranean ... Tullow Oil made new oil find offshore Ghana.

BG Group got 20-yr agreement to supply ~2.5M tons LNG/y to Indian energy comp. Deliveries as early as '14.

DOE self-assessed that they should be spending more on transportation energy R/D, not electric power.

Fed govt got $31.7B from fuel taxes in '09. States got $37.9B in '08. Both going down from econ, mileage gains.

Hubbert predicted US oil peak right, but US now producing 4x more than he predicted for '10.

OPEC won't interfere with falling oil prices. Yet.

Chesapeake Energy had "strong initial production success" in Utica shale region of OH/PA. Plan to increase net liquids production 50% to ~150kb/d by end of '12, 250k by end of '15.

BP studying quadrupling production @ Indonesian LNG plant. And says India should end gas price controls to attract investment.

Fire at Shell's Singapore refinery.

Turkey preparing sanctions against Syria, and Hungary's MOL reducing Syrian crude production 1.5kb/d.

EU antitrust regulators raided Bulgarian NG firms as part of wider look at violations in 10 EU member nations.

DOE predicts in less than 4 years the amount of coal mined in WV, VA, TN will be half what it was in '08. Um, maybe we should stay with developing clean power energy. And they awarded $450M to clean coal project in W. TX.

Stirling Energy Systems filed for Chapter 7.

Car efficiency in next decade could save >2mb/d.

Racing the FY clock, DOE looking at loan quarantees of $2.5B for FSLR projects, $1.4B for Prologis, $1.2B for SPWRA and a few others.

Latest Brent seen - $104.

Trans-Sinai NG pipe from Egypt to Israel/Jordan blown up Tuesday for 5th time since Egypt's revolution.

8B gallon cellulosic biofuels capacity mandated for '16-'19. AgriVida may be a look see.

USDA announced $80M in advanced biofuel producer payments to 163 comps.

Aeromexico started using 25% biofuel mix in fuel for flights to Costa Rica.

Drug raid in PA Boeing plant.

Bernanke: "joblessness a 'national crisis'".

Happy trails, pards.