STUFF ... Giraffe faces extinction amid Congo war ... ~1.1Twh energy stored in wastewater. Enough to power ~275M homes for a year. Pilus Energy has way to extract the energy using bacterial robots housed in fuel cell. Byproducts water, methane or isoprene. Similar to anaerobic digester ... EAM Solar (Norway) plans to buy 8 solar plant owners in Italy. 30Mw for 115M Euro. Est. '14 revs 16-17M Euro, EBITDA 13-14M Euro ... NYC to build 10Mw solar farm on Staten landfill. Lease to Sun Ed ... TX manufacturers asking state regulators not to pay utilities for keeping overcapacity for peak spikes. Would hit refiners, petrochem too hard ... Brazil genset market to grow to $1.5B in '17 from $.8B in '12. Undependable grid power supply. Frost & Sullivan report ... China to help build 2 more nuke reactors in Romania. Online '19-'20 ... Est. over 1,000TCF marketable NG resources in Canada. ~80% in West ... Starting then stopping geoengineering could dangerously accelerate climate change: study ... Asia Development Bank predicts major econ costs of climate change in Pacific ... Pacific islander 1st climate "refugee" denied asylum ... ND tribes planning $300M NG plant to cut flaring ... Kenya suspended issuing new licenses for wind, solar until '17. Going with cheaper fossil fuel power to help cut el prices. Plans to add 5.5Gw next 3 yrs. Now ~1.7Gw mainly from rain-fed hydropower. Power demand growing 14%/yr. 630Mw new wind power still approved, 200Mw solar ... 17-yr-old Iowa student won national FFA science fair award for research into cellulosic ethanol. Compared wheat straw, prairie cordgrass, switchgrass as feedstock ... ONtario close to being coal free with conversion of Thunder Bay plant to biomass in '14 ... Ethanol $1/gal less than gasoline ... Shell, PetroChina producing NG at $1/bl oil equivalent at China project. 91% lower than PetroChina's lifting cost of $11.74/boe in '12. Test production late '14. Reserves est. 96BCM ... India looking to begin making oil payments to Iran after nuke agreement. Iran has lost est. $80B in oil revs since '12 ... Russia plans to build 21 new nuke reactors at 9 plants by '30 ... Whitefish returning to Wisc. rivers ... Beijing seized 500 BBQ grills to curb air pollution. (Really Beijing?) ... RES Americas target 800Mw wind in '14 ... Welspun to finance 1.75Gw Indian clean/ren with 75% debt structure ... Euro PV project valuations falling ... Nordex (wind turbine maker) raised 73.5M Euro from private 7.35M share placement ... Evogene (Israel), genomic biofuel feedstock developer, closed NYSE IPO, raised $85M ... Tasmania targeting 100% clean/ren by '20, 35% emiss reduction blw '90 levels ... IFC closed on $221M finance for 117Mw Jordan wind project ... UK consortium closed 317M Pound finance for 317Mw offshore transmission project ... New Zealand national pension fund investing $55M in turbine maker Ogin (Mass) ... EDF entered up to 1Gw French offshore wind tender ... Ming Yang signed deal for 200Mw Romanian wind farm ... LDK Solar $130M 3Q loss ... EDF closed acquisition of 200Mw TX wind project from Lincoln Renewable Energy.