ISIS CAPTURED BAIIJI, location of of Iraq's largest oil refinery, supplies fuel for most of country. 250-strong security force there. ISIS has freed hundreds of comrades from prisons along the way, picked up US military equipment. (OK, if you were POTUS, would you use air power or not? Is present Iraq a friend of US? What's right here? Certainly there's G-hod brutal terrorists tearing up folks' lives there. I think we should drone 'm if we can while being sure not to harm any innocent citizens. This is one we've got blood, treasure and national soul in dammit. I would do what air we could against ISIS safeguarding citizens from collateral damage. That's just me, pards. Even selected manned jet strikes if we can get the real bad crazies. Our world doesn't need any more of them. Or ... we can just leave it up to God to see how it turns out for Iraq. POTUS call.) ... Water shortages from broken pipe in E Ukraine threatens nuke power plants ... Makeshift bomb caused minor damage at AZ power plant ... EU agreed to tighten safety rules at nuke power plants ... Most Americans fail to link health impacts to climate change: poll. (Really?) ... Computer models, corals show Indian Ocean nations likely to face more extreme weather ... Geothermal activity found contributing to melting of Antarctica glacier: study ... Hyundai debuted 1st HFCV in US ... Utility watchdog, Chicago asking state legislators to investigate proliferation of consumer complaints about power deals offered by alternate suppliers ... Oil drilling in Calif uses multiple airborne toxic chems: report ... 7 drug gangs attacking with tanks blocking Mexico shale boom (?! 1st report I've seen.) ... Pension fund managers investing more in solar ... US oil production up 77Kb/d last week to 8.46Mb/d: EIA ... Libya Supreme Court (I guess they still have one) ruled to reject latest (?) Prime Minister, so they're back to 1. "Rogue" general still fighting militants along with air strikes on militias in Benghazi ... (I know, this world energy report getting to be more a war report these days.) ... Peru launched program to get solar power to 2M of country's poorest ... Brazil's success in slowing rain forest deforestation has produced enormous reductions in carbon emissions. Deforestation also slowed in several other tropical countries ... Indonesia made official complaint against EU at WTO over biodiesel duties ... Exxon on-time startup at Angola offshore project. 160Kb/d production in coming months. To develop more offshore fields there. 20% stake ... Northwestern U engineers opening door to plastics replacing lithium in batts. Block copolymers (fusion of 2 kinds) ... Japan domestic solar shipments more than doubled FY13 to over 8.5Gw. Est. 9.3-11.7Gw for FY14 ... Trina Solar raised $239M with debt, share offering ... Alstom to supply 51Mw Brazil wind project. Online in '18 ... DOE $10M to deploy software to improve grid efficiency. 6 projects in 5 states. To improve synchrophasor tech to monitor grids, develop automated control systems. ~1,700 synchrophasors on US grids. 200 in '09 ... USDA: corn stover can be sustainable feedstock for cellulosic ethanol ... Klamath drying up as refuge for migrating birds ... More farmers using pesticides as bugs resisting GMO corn. (Great. Not.) ... Australia reassuring UNESCO on Great Barrier Reef health ... Indonesia to see $30B geothermal power investment next 5 yrs. (I know, that's a leading headline right there.) ... Hitachi joining Mitsubishi, Siemens bid for Alstom energy assets. (GE's got some competition there.) ... China Datang - wind power developer - issued $321M debt ... Kyocera joining consortium planning 430Mw $1.5B solar project in Japan.