STUFF ... CItibank: utilities are dinosaurs waiting to die ... If humans keep emitting GHG's at current rates in 34 yrs from now Earth will experience "new kind" of hot: study. Climate's natural variability, temps will consistently sit higher than ever ... Little global movement in carbon capture from coal plants ... Melting AK permafrost reaching "major transition point" where methane will be released ... Japan farmers cultivating crops, generating solar power on same land ... Beta Renewables (Italy), Novozymes (US) opened world's largest cellulosic ethanol plant in Italy. 75M liters/yr from ag waste. Wheat straw, rice straw, arundo donax feedstock. Extracted lignin used at attached unit that powers the plant. Excess el sold to local grid ... New research found how to reduce ethanol damage to pipelines ... Brazil ethanol exports to US fell by half in Sept ... Huge demand sees used Tesla S's selling for up to $130K in Norway ... Chesapeake's new CEO fired 1,200. Focusing on NG production ... States impounding frack water to save enviro, money ... Koch Energy buying Odessa NG combined cycle plant. Supplies ERCOT. Taxable value ~$304M plus $14M assets ... Kaneka (Japan) 12.7Mw solar plant online. Their own thin-film ... NRC fuloughed thousands. Historic 1st ... Secret recording caught coal industry boosters laughing at climate change, NW export strategy. (Remember secret recording of Mitt Romney?) ... Enviro groups using '70's slow jams, mockery to shame congressional climate change deniers. (Psycho warfare.) ... SC man mowed Lincoln Memorial lawn to help during shutdown. Utah senator defying shutdown with walk through Zion Park ... Appeals court won't hold up Keystone construction in OK, TX ... First Solar (FSLR) AZ factory that never made panels sold for over $100M ... FERC suing Barclay's for gaming power markets .... Nations signed treaty to curb mercury production, use ... Ap to salvage MT roadkill ... Louisiana upping chlorine in water systems to kill brain-eating amoeba ... Russia accusing Greenpeace acitivsts of carrying drugs onboard ... Seawater radiation levels hit 2-yr high offshore Fukushima ... Saskatchewan tender delay holding up Sky Harvest's 350Mw wind portfolio ... NADB closed $50M for 19Mw Calif solar ... PNE Wind (Germany) to build 100-200 wind power in Scotland ... CPFL unit (Brazil) to borrow $240M to finance wind portfolio ... Siemens consortium selected for US Army $7B program ... India, Germany to invest $1.6B in 1st phase in Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu wind, solar ... Chile approved 500Mw wind farm ... Brazil's power ministry got aps for 625Mw solar projects ... Over 6K wells pumping light sweet out of Bakken. To double shortly.