Tuesday, October 21, 2014
US CORPORATE TAX RATE SHOULD BE LOWEST IN WORLD .... And inheritance tax is double taxation. Get rid of it. Can our government get it right? .... No rehearing for NY town opposed to FERC-approved NG compressor station .... DOE laying undersea cables to Europe for "ultra-fast" climate data .... Oversight lagging for household items claiming to be "organic" .... Fisheries want "organic" label for ocean fish farms .... La. inspectors indicted for fake samples in wake of brain-eating amoeba scare .... Driller contained ND oil well spill after 2 days .... Indo-US Advanced Bioenergy Consortium for 2nd gen biofuels launched with $2.5M .... EPA wants to add biogas, landfill gas to cellulosic biofuels definition .... 2 nuke power plants in England offline since summer coming back online soon at 75-80% capacity to limit risk of cracks in boilers .... Washington State U, PNNL researchers combining iron, palladium for new catalyst to lower cost of biofuels production. Oxygen has to be removed for energy density .... U of Washington engineers designed nuke fusion reactor that could rival costs of coal power. Drives el currents into plasma. To present at IAEA Fusion Energy Conference this week in St. Petersburg (Russia). No need for superconduction for mag field. ~ 1/10th cost of ITER, 5x the output. 1Gw plant could cost $2.7B. Coal plant $2.8B .... Kenya turned on world record 140Mw geothermal power plant. Will reduce country's el costs 30%. 2nd 140Mw plant online in Dec. Will reduce el costs up to 50% .... 2.1Gw combined cycle NG plant being built in Saudi Arabia. Online in '17 .... Protesters demanding end to World Bank finance for coal power .... Suzlon got 150Mw wind turbine supply orders in India .... Hannon (HASI) new $144M investment in 10 operating wind farms - 1.2Gw. Raised $115M debt .... NJR unit buying 48Mw Kansas wind project from OwnEnergy for $85M. Online 3Q15. Yahoo to buy 1/2 of power .... Hanwha (HSOL) supplying 17Mw for 3 N. Carolina solar projects. All online by yearend .... Starwood buying 250Mw wind project in Ohio from Trishe. 1st 100Mw online late '15 .... Air France, KLM to fly weekly biofuel route .... Clean energy public markets activity up 13% in 3Q .... NY approved $117M energy efficiency program .... OPTT to install power buoy off NJ coast in 1Q15 .... Venezuela now importing light crude .... US mortgage rates now 2.88% with no points .... Chagas disease from "kissing bugs" moving into US from Latin Am. Fever, fatigue, body aches, headaches early symptoms. Leads to cardiac arrest, megacolon. 300K infected in US. Leave bites, fecal matter around mouth .... A wonderful world, A, pards? Onward and upward.
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