STUFF ... Large-scale OR wave energy project scrapped. (Was that Lockheed?) ... I don't understand why Calif is not at this moment BUILDING desal water plants (Could just be me.) ... House passed flood insurance reform bill limiting increasing rates for heightened risks. (Right, continue to bail out the folks who live on the beaches in election year.) ... New funding mechanism in new budget would put catastrophe wildfires on par with other national disasters. (That makes sense.) ... Solar capacity could grow over 10x in Americas by '30: study ... New radar instruments to track Antarctic shelf melt ... Live virus in melting permafrost raising Q's about disturbing Arctic ... Real Goods Solar (RSOL) claiming market lead after several yrs struggle ... Enbridge says it can spend $7B to near double 1K mile Canada to US oil pipe without State Dept OK ... Obama '15 budget has $40M crude-by-rail oversight fund ... Many US energy strategies worsen income disparity": Chevron CEO ... FERC review of Louisiana LNG project inadequate: Sierra Club ... Colo poised to break 60-yr-old record for oil in shift away from NG ... New WY water testing rule now in effect. But no contamination response guidelines ... White House suggesting privatizing TVA ... Obama budget would reduce EPA IG staff, staff boom at FWS, DOE tech office new hires, launch nonprof to bolster BLM ... EPA asking court for "voluntary remand" of new boiler rules ... USEC filed bankruptcy ... Yosemite's black bears eating less junk foods: study. (Gotta love that.) ... Greenpeace hit P&G Hq today. Protesting deforestation/palm oil ... EPA added 60 days to comment on power plant emissions proposal ... Drought contributed to Cal smog ... Americans use 2x water as they think: study ... China premier declared war on pollution. (Yay!) ... Yemen oil production started late '80's. Went to 450Kb/d after turn of century. Now back to over 150Kb/d, just above country's consumption. Govt gets ~70% of revs from oil. 25M folks, 50M guns. Per capita water availability lowest in world. .9BCM shortage from rain. Aquifer depleting. (Herd of desal?). Drip irrigation 50% more efficient than flood irrigation. Half their water used to grow gat. A non-addictive opiate. Can't afford desal or pumping water up to capital from Red Sea. Sana's peeps to 2x w/in decade to 4M. Kingdom of Sheba. Prosperous 3K yrs ago with building of Mareh dam ... Greenshift (GERS) installed corn oil extraction tech at IL Corn Processing. 32nd ethanol plant to license tech ... MO set for E15 in June ... Universal Robina to open $35M, 30M liter/day ethanol plant in PI in May, 2 mo late. Molasses feedstock. To take PI to 133M liters/y ... EU has 40BCM NG in storage. 10% of annual demand. 20% better than last yr ... UK petrol sector costs up 15.5% in '13 to $14.8B. Total cap spend $24B. Fields with op costs over $50/bl doubled. Maybe most expensive yr on record ... Obama budget calling for $4B fossil fuel tax break elimination ... Marcellus output continued to climb in '13. Up 61%. To be 25% of US NG production by '15. 20% now. 14-20BCF/d in '15. Could last 30-75yrs .... Total US NG production to increase est. 2% this yr, '15. Prices $5-6 ... RWE $3.8B '13 loss. 1st loss in over 60 yrs ... NRG Solar, Boeing broke ground on Guam's 1st solar project. 25Mw ... US installed solar up 41% in '13 to 4.75Gw. 2.1Gw 4Q alone ... LSCG looking for more funding ... Northland Power raised $255M to fund part of 600Mw Netherland offshore wind farm ... Canadian Solar (CSIQ) swung to $45M profit in '13 from $195M '12 loss ... Enbridge increased share offer to $248M ... Maine supreme court ruled against First Wind JV ... AES priced $750M senior note. 5.5% to '24 ... Bill Gates for President.