STUFF

Chu wouldn't apologize for $500M loss with Solyndra. Come on, Steve. Humble yoself like everybody else. You made a mistake. Not even an "oops". When did the Chinese start naming their kids Steve?

BLM considering new rules - we love new rules, don't we? - limiting methane release @ coal mines on fed property.

Italy and Spain's borrowing rates near 7%, level that forced bailouts for Portugal, Ireland and Greece. Hell roh.

Climate scientists, disaster experts meeting in Africa - o the wind is in from Africa - sorry, i went off on joni mitchell - and the soiree says "get ready for more dangerous and 'unprecedented' extreme weather from global warming." Well, we like warming in winter. And jokes about the end of this 2nd world.

House vote on balanced budget amendment fell short. O. How's that vote on publicly financed elections coming along? And, of course we all know by now, we got the good news that they could agree to keep the govt funded. But we can't expect anything from the supercommittee can we?

Analysts increased their forecasts for 4Q growth in US. Some see 3%, up from 2.5%. What, from Christmas?

Statoil (Norway) has innovation on sound-based seismic imaging to detect oil/NG deposits miles deep without test drilling.

Bill Gates: clean energy spending should equal defense spending. Can he convince anyone in government?

Cellulosic ethanol won't reach 1st generation (food-based) prices until '20: a study.

1st US NG/solar plant approved in Calif. It's one answer to 24-hour power. Probably the best. Others are molten-salt heat storage or batteries.

GE got $100M wind project in Mongolia.

30% of utility bills explain their terms. Lucy... ju have a lot of 'splaining to do...

Solar World filed trade claim in EU in addition to US claim over Chinese solar.

Fisker - building Karma plug-in luxury hybrid (shades of Tesla) - closed in first $58M of $150M round. They've raised >$700M private equity.

China's biggest solar and wind farmers have tapped only $866M of $30B of govt credit.

Solazyme/Navy completed test of algae-based biofuels. 50-50 mix.