Thursday, April 2, 2015

OVER 50GW OF WIND POWER INSTALLED GLOBALLY IN '14. Total capacity now ~370Gw. China put up 23Gw in '14, their total now over 114Gw. Industry expects '15 to top 50Mw, est. 60Gw/yr by '18 .... Mandatory 25% water restrictions for Cal urban residents. Cal drought worsened by global warming climate change: scientists .... Record high temps on Antarctic Peninsula in latest summer. Ice loss accelerated on continent .... Record high temps in March in US west .... Plastics piling up in Mediterranean .... Roundup classified as "probable carcinogen" .... Portland, OR banned use of "bee-killing" chems on city land .... LED-lit indoor farms yield more crops with no pesticides .... No signs of spillage from deadly Gulf of Mex oil rig fire .... Oil/gas industry lost near 100K jobs so far .... US crude inventories up 4.8M bls last week .... Wyoming winter ozone linked to driller's wastewater plant .... BP arguing it won't be able to pay all of US fines for Gulf of Mex spill without financially dismantling its US oil subsidiary .... Solar Frontier completed 150Mw CIGS solar panel factory in Japan .... Duke plans 500Mw of solar in Florida.

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