GLOBAL CLEAN POWER INVESTMENT DOWN 15% IN 1Q. ~$50.5B. Lowest in 2 years. 1Q14 $59.3B. Europe down 30% on year, China down 24%, Brazil down 62%, US up 2%, India up 50%, S Africa went from virtually nothing to $3B. Utility-scale down 19%, wind down 30%, solar up 7% to $32B .... IMF: world "persistent reduction" in econ growth since Great Recession. No signs of return to previous "normal". Record high debt ratios, central banks running out of ammo .... Germany, KfW to buy 1B Euros of green bonds .... DOE $200M nextgen supercomputer at Argonne to advance new energy work .... Wisconsin official banning any mention of global warming climate change. (Mister Ostrich.) .... Obama pledged $20M for clean/renewable power for Caribbean. (That's about out of his own pocket.) .... Massive methane cloud over US southwest. Scientists investigating. (It's the aliens or alqaida.) .... EC OK'd Netherlands clean/ren power subsidy plan.