STUFF

Stuffed, actually, from Thanksgiving dinner and leftovers. Hope your reflux isn't too bad. O yea, on to stuff.

Electric from clean E and renewables got $187B worldwide last year, topping $157B for NG, oil and coal. $66B in subsidies for clean E/renewables. But financial austerity measures in at least 10 countries will cut spending in "green" by $45B through '15. Check that out I guess.

The only American-owned company capable of enriching Uranium asking US govt for help to modernize its plant and stay in biz. USEC has a plant in Paducah (Kentucky) using '40's tech. And they have an old site with a shuttered plant in Piketon, OH. They want to build a new one there and use giant centrifuges. Centrifuges use ~95% less el than old tech. They want $2B loan guarantee. American utilities have been discussing signing supply contracts directly with Russia. Huh. What do you think about this? 500-word essay please. Yea, if I were a professor at YNOT University.

Sauds announced they're halting their $100B oil expansion program, saying the requirement to increase production has "substantially reduced" in face of emerging new oil and gas supplies.

Sundrop Fuels announced $450M biofuels project in Louisiana using forest waste and hydrogen from NG. Plant will make 50M gal/y of gasoline adaptable to existing pumps, pipelines, engines and infrastructure. Online '14.

On airplanes there's a cock to drain the fuel out of the bottom of the fuel tank to get the water out. Maybe we now need that in boats and cars and trucks. With ethanol and biofuels. Just wondering, pards. Wonderin. Wonder what's coming next. Brought to mind a couple stories but one was not so funny.

Well, I trust you all had a good Thanksgiving. And enough anti acid.

Happier trails, pards. Onward and upward.