STUFF ... Used Teslas going for up to $30K more than new ... NJR Clean Energy Ventures bought 20Mw $42M Iowa wind farm project from OwnEnergy. 25-yr PPA with MidAm Energy (Buffett). Online '15 ... Recurrent Energy switched on 88Mw solar in Cal, AZ. 6 separate plants owned by Google, KKR ... Virus killing 5M pigs driving hog prices up ... World food prices at 19-month low on drop in sugar, grains ... Iran willing to modify Arak reactor. They say ... Brookfield (Belgium) sold 80% stake in Biostoom biomass plant to Bionerga, partner ... DFJ - VC fund - withdrawing from funding clean tech ... FMO (Holland) leading $127M finance for 50Mw Honduras wind farm ... In UK, Anesco sold 20Mw solar farm to Balfour Betty (the Queen?) ... Next Era Energy Resources (US) signed PPA with Tri-State Gen and Transmission Ass for 150Mw Colo wind project ... BOEM approved Principle Power 30Mw floating wind project offshore OR. 6Mw turbines ... Israel approved 30 sites for wind development. 160 aps ... Great River Energy, Brattle Group presented innovative approach for compliance with EPA GHG regs ... EDP Renewables to use GE's "Wind Powerup" to increase power output of 402 GE 1.5Mw turbines at 5 US wind farms ... 3M joined China/US clean energy research partnership. Focus on greener heating/cooling for bldgs ... 91% Kansas voters strongly support clean energy. Last year, legislature tried to rollback renewable energy law. 2/3 would support increasing state's clean energy standard, even with $1-2 increase in bills ... Powerline for German wind farms facing public NIMBY resistance. 1 of 3 major expansions to country grid. Last week, protests in Bavaria over another powerline ... Retirement of several power plants in New England reducing power supply, driving up prices: region's grid operator ... Israel target to get 60% of transportation off oil by '25 ... In drought years Amazon emits more carbon than it stores: study ... Wash estuary restoration offers sign of carbon storage benefits: report ... Aquaculture to provide near 2/3 fish consumption by '30: World Bank ... 2 proposed Bakken-area oil pipelines canceled. Shippers' lack of interest. (Do they know Bakken will peak soon?) ... World Energy upgraded GA biodiesel plant with "Shock Wave Power Reactor" from Hydro Dynamics ... Scientists reporting new fast approach to develop biofuel not requiring farmland for food production. Streptomyces: soil bacterium known for making antibiotics. Makes, stores large amounts of oils - triacylglycerols (TAGs) - direct precursors of biodiesel. Manufacturers already know how to grow vast amounts ... ePURE warning EC against too much ethanol coming from Peru ... Marathon buying Cincinnati biodiesel/glycerin plant from Malaysia comp. 4.1Kb/d cap ... BDI-Bioenergy (Germany) refitted Greek biodiesel plant to multi-feedstock. Eur3.6M. Can now use used cooking oil, animal fats. Meets future EU standards ... Fracking depleting water supplies in US driest areas: report. Of 40K wells drilled since '11, 3/4 located in scarce water areas. 55% in areas with drought. 97B gal water used so far ... Shareholders of Exxon, Chevron, EOG, Occidental, Pioneer filed resolutions objecting to ways comps describe fracking risks, failures to reduce enviro, social impacts. "The tech ahead of the science": NYC comptroller ... Libya PM ordered army to seize 3 eastern oil ports still shut, restore exports. Army says what order. Most doubt army can do anything about it. And "bandits" in W Libya closed valve blocking 350Kb/d from reaching coast ... Usual bombs in Iraq ... Construction plans for mid-size geothermal plants booming in Japan. 1st geo plant since '99 to go online in April ... US '13 uranium production 4.8M lbs. Highest in 16 yrs. '03 bottom 2M. New mines in WY ... Lithuania filed 2nd lawsuit v. Gazprom over unfair NG prices since '04. Charged $470-480/cu meter v. Europe avg. $380. (Bad Gazprom.) ... Intl shipping turning to LNG ... US reps: N East GHG initiative model for nation ... Canadian Solar (CSIQ) selling 4th Ontario plant to Blackrock. 10Mw. Online 3Q ... 2 FWS officials repeatedly committed scientific misconduct to shrink habitat of endangered American Burying Beetle. (I wonder if they're the only ones committing scientific misconduct. And, of course, we worry for the American Burying Beetle.) ... Nuclear utility giants urge market changes to thwart closures ... Senators asked DOE to study how crude exports would affect gasoline prices ... Forest Service, USDA want to lessen wildfire risk. (Check out Cal's January.) ... Marine reserves often fail to protect species: study ... Russian poachers selling squirrels as house pets. (Only in Russia ...) ... FERC cited 6 power comps over '11 blackout ... Crude shipments causing Amtrak delays on popular route ... Judge ordered CITGO to pay $2M for TX refinery violations ... Doctors still advise against drinking tap water after WV spill ... Crews extinguished fire at NM nuke waste storage site ... Illegal chem dumping in ND oil patch hard to stop: authorities ... Subway to remove compound found in yoga mats from bread ... Mich governor seeks funding to fight invasive species ... France destroyed entire cache of illegal ivory. (I'm sorry, won't that kill more elephants?)