WHICH SPECIES WILL OUTLAST rising ocean acidity? Ongoing question challenging science. (Sure hope we (and kids and grandkids) can eat seafood up the road besides freshwater farm fish.) ... Great Salt Lake level at 50-year low ... Lack of snowfall in New Zealand. Warmest winter start since records began in 1909 ... S Dakotans building small dams in creeks, gullies to store storm runoff . Epic drought on/off 15 years ... US firefighting funds to run out by end of month ... Singapore passed law to fine comps for setting illegal fires in neighbor Indonesia ... Thailand boosted payments to cut down rubber trees, plant palm oil trees. Palm oil target up 25% ... China goal 13Gw solar installs this year ... UAE mandating compulsory military service, setting up national defense structure ... Marcellus shale production surge to record levels ... DOI rejected industry challenge to Utah oil/gas lease sale ... Houston residents asking EPA to crack down on refinery emissions ... Sunpower (SPWR) teaming with Volkswagen to market home solar, batt storage systems to hybrid, EV customers. System available early '15 ... US solar PV pipeline nearing 50Gw. (That's really a big number, pards. Thought of making it the lead headline.) ... REGI to invest $15M to bring 75M gal/yr biodiesel plant in Louisiana back online. To expand feedstock beyond animal fats. Paid est. $110M for plant, Syntroleum ... Global coal market oversupplied. Exports not slowing. China est. to hit peak coal use in '16, then decline. Thermal coal prices ~$70/ton. Metallurgical coal $120/ton. Peabody reducing met. coal production in Australia ~1.5M tons/yr ... MIT, King Fahd U scientists found method to make solar panel surfaces auto-clean themselves by actively controlling particles, fluids movement with magnetic fields. Micro bumps, ridges on surface impregnated with oil infused with tiny mag particles to draw contaminants off surface. Near-zero surface friction ... Mitsuuroko, partners completed 40Mw solar farm near Tokyo ... Solar thermal can compete in Chile power market: Abengoa ... DOI approved Next Era Energy's plan to switch 485Mw Calif solar project to PV from thermal ... Vivent Solar filed for IPO ... TVA lost $81M 2Q14. Also, judge approved $28M settlement for '08 TVA coal ash spill ... Mississippi Power converting 3 coal power plants to natgas. Sierra Club dropping lawsuits. MP also to install $660M SO2 scrubber at coal plant under construction. Also $15M grant to help low-income customers with insulation. energy-saving appliances. Also clean energy program to help business, homeowners install solar, other clean power. MP to reach 60% natgas power gen by '20 ... Municipal utilities most active clean/renewable power players in Norway ... IFC may back 128Mw Serbian wind project ... Algae comps want EPA to formally recognize their tech to use power plant CO2 emissions to grow algae for biofuel ... NRC approved higher cooling water temps at FL nuke plant ... Fuel cells lighting up S Africa village ... Boeing, S Africa Airways teaming on tobacco-sourced biofuel program ... Google offering $1M prize for improved power inverter ... Finally, Tesla (TSLA) to ship est. 35K cars in '14, $3.12B revs, deliveries up 55% over '13. 25% margin to grow to est. 28% by yearend. '14 profit est. $87M. US supercharger network near done. Europe, Asia sales est. double N Am by yearend. Limiting factor: batteries ... Happy trails, pards. Onward and upward. Tally ho. Make peace.