STUFF

EV's:
Nissan expects cumulative sales of 1.5M ZEV's (zero emission v's)  in next 4 yrs. Honda will unveil 3 new EV models in '11. VW confirmed '13 production of plug-in hybrid with 170mpg. A Citroen electric van set range record of 621 miles on single charge on public roads with commercially available batts. Nearly 8M EV charge locations to be available globally in 5 yrs. 15 EV models will be available in US in 2 yrs. Today, 3.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance: expect onshore wind to become fully competitive with NG combined-cycle turbine tech by '16 in most regions with fair wind conditions.

IEA world energy outlook '11: short-term pressure on oil prices may be eased by slower econ growth and reutrn of Libya production (what about new Iraq oil?), but trends on both demand and supply will maintain price pressures. Est. avg. price by '35 $120 in '10 dollars (over $210 in '35 dollars). Oil demand to rise from 87mb/d in '10 to 99m in '35. Biofuel production expected to triple by '35. Investment in energy infrastructure of $1.5T/yr needed to meet demand.

Poll showed for first time that a majority of Americans now aware that incandescent bulbs are on the way out. Well, hooray Americans. Half now up to speed.

Obama proposed near-doubling fuel econ targets for cars by '25. Fleet goal 54mpg, increase of 5%/y. Light trucks 44mpg, cars 62mpg. May cost $157B to get there.

Health groups, states ask court to force EPA soot crackdown.

Repubs slammed EPA for weighing regs for drilling wastes at sewage plants. Really.

7 pipelines at risk of failure in MT, WY.

BP hit with fed suit for damage to AK N. slope.

State Dept. boosting focus on resource politics.

USPS warns default close. And we're putting 2,500 more Marines into Australia.

UK trees now bear fruit earlier in season.

Siemens opened new gas turbine factory in Charlotte next to its existing steam turbine generator plant. Fully operational in '12. 1.8k jobs. They expect to sell ~10 turbines/y @ $2-3M each.

Constellation Energy, Marriott announced project to deliver 23MW of controllable load across 264 hotel properties in Neast, mid-Atlantic, TX and Calif.

Global advanced biofuels, chemicals capacity to reach 5.11B gal/y by '15. Though 4.37B gal/y reported in May, up from 3.95B in Jan.

OOIL launched commercial entry-level algae harvesting system that processes at very low cost with no chems. Release 1H12.

In India, jatropha seed developer Nandan Cleantec expects sales to grow 25%/y through '15.

Stanford researchers discovered that with right conditions, E.coli can act as super-charged catalytic converter to turn sugars into diesel-type fuels.

Many EU biodiesel producers facing bankruptcy/extinction due to demand drop, low-cost imports.