PUTIN RAISED NUCLEAR OPTION OVER UKRAINE. (Good God, Vlad. A little suicidal now? Billionaires don't like that kind of talk.) ... Solar World Americas wants stiff new US tariffs against China comps that use, hack proprietary company info ... Global warming could reduce river flows by spurring plant growth: study ... Growing global meat, dairy consumption unsustainable: study ... N Atlantic cod populations continue decline ... Puget Sound orca population down ... EPA staff calling for lower ozone standard ... DOE panel members get consulting cash from labs they oversee ... Conti bought 11Mw of modules from Canadian Solar (CSIQ) ... Coast Guard testing drones for emergency oil spill response ... Global oil production costs growing ~10%/year ... Summit Group (Iowa) to build $140M corn ethanol plant in Brazil ... 25M gal/yr ethanol plant in S Dakota back online. Idle for 18 months. Margins better. Record US corn crop ... China biodiesel demand to double by '17 from '13: report. Up to 2.5M tons/yr (832M gal by my math). Their biodiesel production 1-1.2M tons in '13 with 3.7M capacity. 2.7M more cap proposed or under construction ... Rosneft bought 30% of Norway's North Atlantic Drilling for $4.25B. Rosneft also to use 6 NAD offshore oil rigs until '22. Deals went through despite sanctions ... ORNL experimenting with using discarded tires to make better lithium-ion batteries ... 2.2Mw solar project completed in Samoa ... Inedible crop biofuels need govt mandates: Novozymes. EPA 8 months late on RPS ... Hitachi unit, Etrion to build 24.7Mw, 9.3Mw solar plants in Japan. Part of 300Mw commitment ... Vestas deal to supply 58Mw of wind turbines for EDF Poland project. Online late '15 ... Scottish Equity to invest in ~10 Brit energy efficiency, district heating, small hydropower, heap pump projects with new $306M fund backed by SSE ... Trina Solar bought 90% of power plant developer Yunnan. Yunnan developing 300Mw solar project in Yunnan ... EDP US unit got $33M finance commitment to help build 30Mw solar project in Cal. Online in 4Q. So Cal Ed PPA ... New $100B BRICS bank to focus on sustainable infrastructure ... Jolywood Suzhou Sunwatt (China) raised $62.8M in IPO ... US electrical unions launching net-zero energy training center in LA.