Looking forward to the Standard Chartered Bank Earth Resource Conference in Hong Kong this June.  Interesting speakers on all of the day’s panels.

Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD
VP, Applied Technology & Research
 
Following the run up to nearly 33 cents, world (#11) sugar futures have retreated and stayed in the 22-24 cent range for much of the week.  The market is expecting strong production numbers from Brazil and India, the two largest producers, and there seems to be optimism among [...]

Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD
VP, Applied Technology & Research
 
Google noted that a recent investment of $100 million will assist in enabling the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm to become the world’s largest wind farm by 2012; this follows their $168MM solar investment into the BrightSource Energy tower project.  The company has now invested nearly $350MM into clean [...]

Topics for the Green:Net 2011 conference this April (a GigaOM event).  I went last year, and it was a great day of talks.  A LOT of opportunity here for the applied atmospheric sciences sector:

The Next-Gen Smart Grid: It’s All About Apps
The future of the smart grid will be software and applications. While infrastructure giants [...]

The Southern Oscillation Index value for January2011 was again strongly entrenched in positive phase (chart from the Australia Bureau of Met).

La Nina conditions to continue, with effects on prices of everything from corn to coal.  Weather Trends map below shows current snapshot of Pacific cold SST anomalies.