Thursday, August 13, 2015

JAPAN'S RETURN TO NUKE POWER WILL SLOW DEVELOPMENT OF SOLAR, WIND .... Record-breaking, deadly heat wave in Japan .... Marine phytoplankton (microalgae) produces up to 90% of Earth's oxygen: NASA. 200-800K species. 40K catalogued; spirulina, astaxanthin among them .... China still stockpiling oil .... Suntech parent buying 64% of Suniva for $57.8M to gain US beachhead. Plans to expand Suniva capacity to 1Gw/yr .... Tesla (TSLA) to raise $500M in share sale. Powerwalls sold out through '16 .... IEA: at least another year before oil markets rebalance. Revised 2Q15 demand up 370Kb/d from July est. Supply est upped 140K .... 900Mw NG power plant planned in Rhode Island .... Clean/ren power hit record high in '14 in New Zealand. 39.5%, up 1.3% from '13. 3rd highest percent in world after Iceland, Norway. (Um, Brazil? Others?) .... India OK'd 1.5Gw solar park project .... Corn 1/2 price of '13. (Can't we stop using food for fuel?)

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