STUFF

GM boosted Volt mileage rating, beating Prius.

Greece's GDP less than Ohio's.

Sauds maintained self-sufficiency in wheat prod for 30 years with irrigation. The water's gone. They'll be relying on imports by '16. In China, no more useful land for domestic food demand. Targeting Argentina, Africa land.

In past 2 years, Mass PV solar installs up >4x from 25MW to 115.

NOAA: warmest US spring on record.

Japan's PM appealing to nation to accept that 2 nukes must restart to protect econ.

Sen. Alexander: even if Yucca were open today we'd still need a 2nd repository very quickly. Considering "consolidation sites". There are 10 sites around US where reactors were torn down and the waste still sits there in concrete/steel casks.

Fed appeals court ruled NRC to conduct fuller enviro review of spent nuke fuel storage sites around country.

Cal's San Onofre nuke will stay shut down this summer.

NE states in cap and trade system - the one Christie is keeping NJ out of - cut CO2 23% in 1st 3 years.

Iran's Kurdistan province planning 1.3GW of hydropower with 5 projects.

Enerkem started production of cellulosic ethanol from waste materials at demo facility in Quebec.

TX researchers looking at switchgrass and use of up to 60M acres of otherwise useless mesquite and redberry juniper for biofuels feedstock.

Intl Air Transport Ass CEO says industry needs govt support to lower biofuels costs. 1,500 commercial flights now using biofuels.