STUFF

ESLR(Q) sold its tech for $6M plus 7.6M shares of buyer - China Private Equity Investment Holdings. Tech was developed at MIT. O. That's where Romney got his first name. Maybe not.

AMRS expanding R&D partnership with Total. Also formed joint venture to produce renewable fuels.

Solar City's plans to install solar panels on top of >100k military housing units was revived with Bank of America commitment to lend $350M. Remember, the DOE loan guarantee wasn't granted.

DOE, by the by, was created in the '70's to get the US off of foreign oil. OPEC oil, more exactly. What a job done so far, huh? Yet DOE researches and finances clean E electricity sources that have nothing to do with oil. Of course, it was fighting the peak of US oil production I think it was in '70? But. US now close to becoming a net fuel exporter with LNG and biofuels potential, let alone our new oil and NG production from fracking and deepwater offshore. Despite even the petering out of Alaskan production.

Massachusetts' effort to close Plymouth coastal nuke reactor because of Fukushima denied by NRC. Odd thing is they actually could get a tsunami when that piece of the Canary Islands falls into the Atlantic after a major earthquake. Or is that just an old wives tale? Vermont also tried to shut down Vermont Yankee reactors - also owned by Entergy. Also denied. I'm sorry here, but nuke energy is clean energy and 24-hour energy. And I like clean energy. But there's nothing wrong with getting the safest nuke energy we can. Thorium. Hello. (LTBR).

Archbishop Tutu challenging Canada to set example for world by addressing GHG emissions and climate change and stop supporting their oil and NG industry (oil sands). Yea. Really. Take care of Africa first, Bishop. Start with South Africa.

AONE cutting 125 workers in Mich. AMSC also cutting jobs.

US seen as roadblock in S. Africa climate talks. As developing nations push for extension of Kyoto '97 agreements. What's new. Qatar to host '12 talks.

And in Laos, a Vietnamese company started work on a $100M sugarcane ethanol plant.

Happy trails, pards.