Saturday, October 18, 2014

GLOBAL OIL SURPLUS TO DISAPPEAR GRADUALLY NEXT YEAR: IEA .... Last Jan's deep freeze in US left some natgas power plants in northeast unable to secure fuel when needed most. Triggered rise in power prices. Out west, low coal supplies from reduced rail deliveries .... Mich coal power plant plans switch to natgas .... FERC lowered power transmission rates in New England .... Almond, bee industries joining on bee death problem .... Chem linked to bee death offers "little or no benefit" for soybeans: EPA .... Skyonic Corp (Austin) to open $125M factory to capture CO2 from cement making, use it to make sodium bicarbonate, hydrochloric acid. To capture 83K tons/yr, save up to 220K more by not making those chems from tech that emits CO2. Skyonic tech also works for power plants. $28M from DOE .... Yucca Mountain now deemed safe for nuke waste storage .... US Forest Service studying wildfire risks to US watersheds .... France wants US to pledge more than $1B to "green fund" for developing nations .... Researchers improved vital component in EVs using 3D printing .... Scientists looking at how to track impacts of offshore wind turbines .... EU carbon permits to double by '20 .... UK migratory bird populations have declined sharply: survey .... Google advertising revs now double all of US newspapers .... BLM director invited protesting ranchers to coffee .... Montana opted to keep bison in state .... Tornadoes come in swarms: study .... Bay Area board OK'd plan to cut refinery emissions .... Sun Edison (SUNE) in talks for $2B polysilicon plant in China .... DuPont, Ethanol Europe Renewables to build 100M liter/yr cellulosic ethanol plant in Macedonia .... Abengoa (ABGB) started up its 1st commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Kansas. Up to 25M gal/yr. ~$500M cost. $97M grant, $132M DOE loan guarantee. Co-gen system produces 22Mw .... E30 debut in Ontario .... Indonesia sees biodiesel blending reducing diesel imports up to 28% .... Senegal declared Ebola free.

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