Monday, February 1, 2016

PARIS CLIMATE PLEDGES SEEN COSTING $12T OVER 25 YEARS. $500B/YR. SO, CLEAN POWER INSTEAD OF DIRTY. DUH. SHOULD BE MORE MONEY.

China added 30.5Gw wind power in '15, up 31.5% over '14.

2.5% increase in clean/renewable powergen in Europe in '15. Now 29% of power mix. Emissions stayed level.

France to pave 621 miles of roads with solar next 5 yrs.

Greenland shunning Paris accords. (Yea, they would like more land, less ice. I guess.)

Copenhagen to divest fossil fuels.

Direct climate change link to worldwide trout abundance: USGS.

GE to phase out CFL bulbs by yearend.

DOD clean energy projects seldom realize power, cost goals: GAO. (When has the DOD not been the pig with lipstick on it?)

A lot more Flints out there: Clinton. (How much cost to replace all lead pipe water lines in US?)

Canadian Solar Japan unit got $40M loan from Japan bank.

Gamesa got 15Mw solar project order in India. Online this quarter.

Kyocera cut full-year profit forecast on China slowing.

UK facing up to 15Gw energy storage shortfall.

Georgia Power plans 525Mw more clean power.

Vision Ridge closed $430M clean energy fund.

Hanwha (HQCL) closed on 42Mw Turkey solar portfolio.

Tesla (TSLA) powerwall home installs start in Australia.

Experts still looking for "smoking gun" in Ukraine grid cyber attack.

Israel fended off cyber attack on power comp.

At $10/bl oil in places in world, even costlier to shut down production than produce.

Baiji refinery in Iraq declared total write-off.

Natgas pipeline blown up that supplies 1/2 of Kurd powergen.

China net exports of petrol products to increase 31% this year to 25M tons. Their crude imports to increase 7.3%.

Israel called for Turkey to end ISIS oil trades.

1st-ever oil spill response plan in China.

Iran-China rail line now up and running.

Bombings caused massive oil spill in Nigeria. Nigeria reinstated general implicated in mass murder.

N Dakota pipeline leaked oil, brine into creek.

Syria peace talks likely to go nowhere. Kurd delegation excluded.

Report: Russia bombs killed 965 ISIS, 1,238 rebs, 1,400 civilians so far.

Damascus cutting off food to many reb areas, up to .5M people.

80% of Yemen people in dire need of food, water, medical supplies: UN. US resupplying Saud munitions.

Avg. Russian income ~1/2 of '13. Food prices up ~30%. Taxes on rise. (Ever glad you were born in US? Europe?)

Coal industry starting increased black lung monitoring. (G, that's timely. Only been how many hundreds of years?)

Britain gave OK to genmod of human embryos.

That's our world, kids. Happy February. Buckle up.

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