Notes From All Over -- Part 3-- November 7, 2019

Wells on confidential list due to be reported yesterday not yet reported. 

Wind tower decommissioning in Minnesota, link here, from a reader:

In Minnesota, Xcel Energy estimates conservatively that it will cost $532,000 (in 2019 dollars) to decommission each of its wind turbines—a total cost of $71 million to decommission the 134 turbines in operation at its Noble facility.

Decommissioning the Palmer’s Creek Wind facility in Chippewa County, Minnesota, is estimated to cost $7,385,822 for decommissioning the 18 wind turbines operating at that site, for a cost of $410,000 per turbine.

Restoration activities include the removal of all physical material and equipment related to the project to a depth of 48 inches. Most of the concrete foundations used to anchor the wind turbines, however, are as deep as 15 feet.

The concrete bases are hard to fully remove, and the rotor blades contain glass and carbon fibers that give off dust and toxic gases. 

More wind here, Falmouth, MA: link here.

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Jobless claims, link here:

• prior: 218,000
• prior revised: 219,000
• forecast: 215,000
• actual: 211,000

Market: I may have to break my MSNBC-CNBC embargo and watch the market today. Completely unexpected.

• China, China, China
• Dow: up 212 points
• NASDAQ: up 50 points
• WTI: up 1.1%
• S&P 500: up 16 points
• AAPL: hit a new all-time intra-day high; now up almost $2.00; trading at $258.43; remember this was a "bad year" for Apple, Inc, and the third quarter was particularly bad according to pundits going into earnings season;
• Warren Buffett: riding the AAPL wave; actually cut his Apple holdings in 3Q19;
• IMUX: up slightly
• SRE: continue to slip
• oil companies should do well today
• XLNX: up almost 3%; up $2.79; trading at $96.56; pays 1.63%, but well off it's 52-week highs

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Sophia's Corky pulled over for driving without a license: