CLIMATE PATTERNS unlikely to ease California drought: NOAA ... Re-routing planes to avoid making contrails could benefit climate: study ... Engineers designed robot to find water, methane leaks ... California giving money for electric vehicle charge stations ... Harley Davidson introducing electric cycle. (Not your dad's Hell's Angels.) ... New discovery could help genetically modify trees to survive global warming ... N Carolina: records show engineers working for Duke Energy warned the comp near 30 years ago about the coal ash spill danger ... Greenko Group (India) had 55% increase in year's profit ($12.7M) after more than doubling power generation capacity to 661Mw. Targets of 1Gw by '15, 2Gw by '18. About 423Mw of wind power, hydropower now in construction ... Onshore wind power cost about $85/Mwh. $82 for coal ... Siva Power - US thin-film solar maker - got $15M to expand research, manufacturing operations ... Coca-Cola plant in India forced to close over pollution, water concerns ... France aiming for 40% clean/renewable power by '30. (They do have a lot of nuclear. Are they counting that as clean power? Of course, there are GHG emissions created in mining of uranium, building of power plants, processing uranium. Also full-cycle GHG emissions for wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, ocean power. But clean power wins over fossil overall. To clean the air, reduce chances of our kids frying in the future. OK, soapbox being taken away.) ... Nordic Investment Bank providing 50M Euros for biomass-fired cogeneration heat/power plant in Sweden ... DOE allocating $100M to 32 energy research projects for 2nd round ... OX2 (Sweden) bought 220Mw of wind power assets from Greenfield (Poland) ... Electrosul (Brazil) to invest $44M in substation for 583Mw wind power project.