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Bloomberg report: US fuel blenders can use up to 20% of blending requirements this year in form of RINS from previous production rather than buying new production. Blenders must use 13.8B gal of ethanol this yr. Bloomberg est. 13.4B will be produced. Last week RIN prices jumped 38% to 47 cents.

Canada shutting down biofuels susbsidy program.

Power prices, wages, corruption brought down Bulgaria govt. Czech power distributor. Also power from Austria. A VAT on power. Bulgaria poorest of EU nations. Freeze of public wages. Avg mo. salary $534. Socialists doing well in new election campaign.

Iran claims to have discovered some 2B bls of oil since last March. Also announced discovery of huge uranium deposits. Tripled est. reserves to 4.4K tons. Designated 16 sites for nuke power plants. (Bolstering position in new talks with 6 powers.) They also increased oil storage capacity 500K bls. 3rd such facil in past yr.

Suzuki starting production of hydrogen fuel cell car batt. Working with Intelligence Energy (UK). '15 target for HFC vehicle.

Human body produces just under 116 watts of energy per day. Fujifilm may have product to use it. Thermal conversion material.

Lith-ion batt cell can store ~200 watt hrs/kg. We need 800, at least. Petrol has ~13Kwh/kg. Lith-air batts can deliver 12Kw. But hard to build.

NASA suggesting household water boilers could soon be replaced by small nuke reactors. Low-E reactors (LENRs). No ionizing radiation. No waste. Device fires slow-moving neutron into nickel. Neutron splits into electron, proton. Extra system could be added to use the heat to make power. Carbon could be used instead of nickel, would be turned into nitrogen.

Coal bed methane promise could be as great as LNG or shale gas. Stiff enviro opposition, though.

Research: global gen cap of wind power has been overest. Not as much wind power as thought. Every turbine has downwind "shadow". A few terrawatts may be limit.

$100 annual fee on alt fuel vehicles, including hybrids, in road funding bill approved by VA assembly.

NAM: carbon tax would curtail US consumption, investment, wages, limit ability to add revs to govt. Taxing CO2 @ $20/ton would raise over $100B in 1st yr.

Serbia expects to pay $916M by '20 in clean/renewable subsidies. Revised FITs earlier this month. 27% clean/ren elgen by '20. 21% now. 1Gw of new capacity.

Suzlon Energy (India) won order for 49 2.1Mw wind turbines from India's biggest energy explorer.