Fed judge sided with enviros challenging GM crops on national wildlife refuges in 10 Southeastern states. Most common were corn, soy resistant to Roundup.
Admin to issue offshore wind lease off Del. Country's 2nd wind lease, 1st under DOI's "smart from the start" program. NRG, project owner, has been trying to sell the proposed 450Mw farm. No customers lined up for the power. Offshore project costs ~22 cents/Kwh v. onshore 8.3 cents. Exactly, stick with onshore. At least for now. Unless those aren't the real numbers.
Neb reroute has dampened Keystone XL protests.
FERC: 433Mw new elgen capacity added in US in Sept. 300Mw of wind in 5 projects, 133Mw of solar in 18 projects. 1st 9 months of '12 we got online 4Gw of wind in 77 projects, 936Mw in 154 solar projects, 340Mw of biomass in 76 projects, 123Mw of geothermal from 7 projects, 9Mw of hydro from 10 projects, 3Mw of waste heat from 1 project. New NG in the 9 months was 4.6Gw in 61 projects, 2.3Gw in new coal with 3 projects. Clean/renewable energy now 15% of total US elgen.
Windpower surpassing hydropower for 1st time in US Northwest.
West TX farmers grappling with water pumping restrictions for 1st time.
Report: smog just as harmful to health as malaria, TB. What's smog? GHG emissions, especially with temp inversions.
Soy Energy to idle 30M gal/y biodiesel plant in Iowa. Tough market conditions, expiration of biodiesel blenders tax credit cited.
England engineers creating petrol from air. CO2 removed from atmos mixed with sodium hydroxide. Resultant sodium carbonate solution electrolysed to make pure CO2. Spate process collects water vapor from air and H separated. CO2, H then combined to form methane. Passed through gasoline fuel reactor to make petrol. Industry scale ~15 years out. No mention of economics.
Ikea pledging energy independence by '20 using wind, solar.
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