“If there aren’t investment opportunities which compete with other projects we won’t put money into it.”

Linda Cook, oil giant Shell’s executive director of gas and power, says the company is backing biofuels over wind, solar and hydro power, which are not cost-competitive with other options (Guardian).

“One hundred kW threshold has been viewed traditionally as a proof of principle for ‘weapons grade’ power levels for high-energy lasers.”

Dan Wildt, vice president of directed energy systems at Northrop Grumman, says electric lasers are now at ‘battlefield strength’ (Wired).

“There is nothing like a ‘shark horror’ story to quicken an old journo’s pulse rate.”

Australian journalist Joe Morris explains how he became ‘the leading light of the ‘Shark Scare’ story’ (Ranters blog).