STUFF

Sweden may have Europe's largest rare earth deposits.

5-yr trailing avg of G7 real GDP growth has gone from 4% in late '80's to just above zero. A 5th grade question, to be sure. Bonds beat stocks last 30 years.

John Cash: success is having to worry about everything else but money.

Taiwan 101 the highest and probably largest building with platinum LEED rating. In the world.

Have you ever seen the world population chart? We took off after the Black Death Plague around 1600 AD and went ballistic. 1B at turn of 19th century. 2B in '22. 3B in '59. 4B in '74. 5B in '87. 6B in '99. 7B now. What a family.

US corn yield/acre 1935 was 20 bushels/acre. Now 160. It took cheap oil, fertilizer, hydrid seeds, herbicides/insecticides, mechanized equipment.

CO2 denser than O2 on Earth. Opposite in space (zero gravitas).

8% of US comps fully disclose C emissions data. 53% of Euro comps do.

GE powering 4.3MW landfill gas-to-energy project in Brazil. Gas otherwise would be released to atmos and methane 21x worser than CO2. ~15 yr gas supply. GE has >1,650 units operating on landfills for >1.65GW output.

That fed appeals court ruling on $2.6B Cape Wind project? It revoked FAA determination that the wind farm would not present a flight hazard in Nantucket Sound. Huh.

Siemens entering geothermal power market with new 60MW steam turbine.

Boulder, CO voted to establish their own utility.

Fracking likely cause of earthquakes in Britain. Huh. Was that the cause of the VA-centered quake earlier this year?

Ammonia leak triggered rare alert at SC nuke plant.

With 3M customers losing power in the early snow storm is it time to consider burying power lines?

VC investments in clean tech holding steady.

Chevy Volt sales up in Oct but behind target.

Wisconsin regulators waived enviro review at collapsed coal ash ravine.

Reactor restart at Fukushima.

China reverting to 1-hr free bicycling to unsnarl traffic.

Climate change making some birds bigger. Why is that?

Car dealers opposing new fuel economy standards. Why is that?!

China joined green jet movement (biofuels in jetfuel).

Grid gas from sewage failing to deliver in Britain. "Technical problems".

Ocean shipping giants getting seriouser about cleaner energy.

Socially responsible investing expanding despite the market.

Similar sentiments from Solyndra and Beacon: DOE terms too onerous.

Winsway, Marubeni to buy Grande Cache Coal for C$1B, 112% over trading price.

Solyndra exec bonuses kept coming in '11, also to the law firm.

Last week 2 17MW AZ Pub Svc solar projects came online.

A NGK Energy Storage grid-scaled sodium/sulfur batt exploded. Xtreme Power, another E storage hopeful, experienced a "small fire" at Hawaii wind farm site.

And that's what I found, pards. True blue.