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Dynamic Fuels/Mansfield Oil to supply Norfolk Southern with renewable diesel.

Banchak Petro (Thailand) to invest $64M in Laos, Cambodia 200k liters/d ethanol plants.

Globally, ag uses 92% of freshwater.

Obama '13 budget proposes boost of EV tax credit to $10k.

FERC creating division to monitor el, NG trading.

Alaska North Slope well had blowout. Will be test of environ protection.

Research found humanity's sprawling nitrogen footprint could have devastating effects on health, ecology, climate.

Extreme summer temps becoming new normal.

Cape Wind found buyer for 1/4 of its planned power.

Energy storage market likely to quadruple next 5 years. Subsidies probably will jump start it. Now, 90% in thermal storage (1GW) or renewable gen captured as pumped hydro (115MW) and compressed air (500MW). Batt storage likely to leap and flywheel tech to gain.

Itron reported good Q/Yr numbers. Revs up 8% yoy. Beat analysts #'s. That can always be a setup, though. The $100M deal was their buying their cellular smart metering partner. And they're launching a project with Cisco and National Grid (UK).

Solar Frontier (JP) shipped 13MW CIGS thin-film solar modules to NRG this month. SF 2nd largest thin-film provider in '11 (577MW) behind FSLR. Efficiency a bit better than FLSR's, but no disclosure on cost/w.

World is burning 10x as much energy as century ago. Increasing rapidly.

Iran's new ability to make nuke rods may be for show as US suggested. Rods not that hard to make. But require years of safety testing. But, anything to do with weapons production?

N. Sudan seized 2.4M bls of S. Sudan's oil for "transit" (pipeline) fees.

Baghdad told Exxon they're no longer eligible to bid on contracts because of Kurd deal. Big X may just stick with the Kurds.

Major oil pipe blown up in Syria. Yemen oil workers on strike.

Belgian biodiesel producer filed for bankruptcy.

BP to quadruple sugarcane production in Brazil to 30M met tons/yr by '17. Boosting cane area 35%.

And on we go, pards.