STUFF

Another hybrid vehicle maker - Bright Automotive - gone under.

EIA estimate world shale gas reserves in 32 countries ~5,760TCF.

Bridgelux, Chevron formed pact to finance LED lighting for cities. Street lights 10-40% of energy costs. 35M street lights in US. Just right there. Stop the text right there. 35M street lights in the US. Just think about that. >.1 street light per person. OK, let's go forth. 70% could use LED's. The rest can't be converted. Or perverted, if you are Republican. Just joking. I joke. Who doesn't, huh?

Decision on Chinese solar import tariffs delayed by US.

CREE remains LED leader in China: Piper Jaffray. China LED comps still 2-3 years behind in tech. LED street lamp mart could grow 80% this year. Low hangin fruit, A? CREE still has 70% share of China outdoor lighting mart.

Bill Clinton - remember him? - backing Keystone XL pipeline. Well, sure, who doesn't?

Bingaman intro'd long-awaited clean energy bill probably going nowhere.

BLM rejected bid for sprawling Powder River Basin coal tract.

Chevron in talks with Russia (Putin?) about Arctic exploration.

Oil sands comps agreed to share info.

Abound Solar halted thin-film production.

American Chem Society says 80% of farmland would have to be planted in corn to meet RFS targets with 1st gen biofuels. How stupid would that be?

Ohio's Andersons buying Iowa's Amaizing Energy Ethanol's 2.7M bushel grain terminal, Anderson's 1st ethanol plant west of Mississippi.

Sinopec unveiled massive plan for av biofuels production in China.

And we go onward and upward.