STUFF

Polysilicon prices ~$23/kg last week. ~$400 in '08. Basic component in silicon PV solar, o course. And puter chips.

US oil supplies @ 22-year high.

WHO computer projections suggest public was exposed to lower radiation than feared at Fuku.

Study: coastal sea grass traps carbon more efficiently than forests.

Army Corps of Engineers: southern leg of XL pipeline changed route to avoid EPA weigh-in on Clean Water Act.

BLM intends to regulate mine methane releases.

Romney's energy advisor gave big to super PAC. Well, look at it. Energy industry what globally, $6-7T/y now? And US budget at what, $3T/y. Before the tea party has at it. So. Are we at the mercy of the energy industry? And a tea party?

NM jet fuel spill could be 2x Exxon Valdez? First I herd.

Mass reactor - Yankee? - offline after "mech malfunc". Probably union reaction to "all nonessential workers can go home" last week. Nonessential workers at a nuclear power plant?!

Putin ally to head state oil comp. Duh. Or is it dah?

Taiwan to become the next big solar manufacturing hub?

"Sputtered" molybdenum electrodes (MO) for CIGS solar cells coming from large-scale glass makers. I saw Guardian Industries Corp on this.

Foreign dominance of US clean energy market spells trouble for USA: Third Way.

With closure of 7GW of nuke energy after Fuku, Germany still exported 7TWh v. 70TWh of el in '11.

Among the BP GOM oil spill legacy: eyeless shrimp, clawless crabs and fish with lesions.

UK rejected shale gas tech as solution to their energy crisis. They don't have any. They may go nuke. Or tidal or wave or offshore wind.

Building out wind E can save midwest consumers $63-200/y by '20. Synapse Energy Economics study. With necessary transmissions lines. Not in anybody's back yards, unfortunately. NABYU.

Ag Processing restarted mothbolled 60M gal/y biodiesel plant in Iowa.

OOIL revs up, loss widened to $2M.

Canadian oil producers blending ethanol @ 30% over mandated levels (E5).

Chief of Naval Ops (US) joined calling for US biofuels focus.

China warning Australia to choose them or the US. Actually, Australia is still part of UK. What the hell is going on with that?

Kurdish oil pipeline could split Iraq. Didn't Biden suggest that way back? Split up Iraq. The US had the call of the ball. Culd have split Iraq into what they maybe should be now. Kurds, Shia, Shiite. But for some reason - probably money - we did not. And so we pay. And deeper in debt for not standing up to reality.