On the good news front, General Electric will announce today a technological development resulting in a 20% increase in efficiency of wind technology. http://www.timesunion.com/...
"Steve Bolze, the CEO of GE Power & Water, said the new product — called the Digital Wind Farm — has been in development for the past 18 months and combines the company's two-megawatt wind turbines with GE modeling software, sensors and the industrial Internet, which allows machines to exchange data, or "talk" to one another."
In order to fill in the blanks, others with more technical expertise please feel free to supplement this bare bones diary. Just wanted to get this good news out there.