The beauty of locally owned power generation is that it is tailored to the unique needs and features of the area. Gone is the one size fits all model of service typical of the investor owned utility and gone too are many of the costs associated with centralized power delivery.
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Mother nature demonstrated in brutal fashion last week the dangers of perpetuating a centralized electrical grid system. Ice storms in the Northeast took out power to more than a million residents when trees and branches fell across power lines and began a cascading series of catastrophic failures.
During President Bush’s 2006 State of the Union address he announced a national goal, of meeting 20% of the nation’s energy needs from wind energy, by 2030. The timeline for meeting this goal was determined in part by the...
Read MoreThis past week heralded a stunning example of the dangers of designing an economic policy dependent upon outside resources. Just three days after Governor Kulongoski inaugurated the new $20M airport terminal and delivered a...
Read MoreRural America grows the food, harvests the timber and produces the power essential to the survival of urban America. Factory farms work fields as far as the eye can see drawing water from the surrounding settlements and forests....
Read MoreFor months I have been receiving news alerts about the failures and foibles of Eskom, SAs national electricity provider and the daily rolling blackouts. Now it seems, SA may be without power for as much as two weeks straight as...
Read MoreYears ago I read The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made the Carburetor Possible, by James Burke, about the origins and evolution of innovation and invention. Burke chronicles the unlikely connections that led...
Read MoreIn 1992 electricity began to be viewed less as an essential service and more as a commodity when...
Read MoreBeing the inventor of a low profile, high efficiency wind turbine it pains me to have to dispel the myth that centralized renewable energy such as wind and wave reduces carbon emissions. Large amounts of power produced in one...
Read MoreOne of our presidential candidates, whose name I shall not mention because it triggers google ads...
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Read MoreStorage is always the problem with renewable energy, what do you do with the excess power produced at times? How do you use it later? In Europe they are able to use the grid to feed excess power throughout several countries and...
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