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A Solar Commitment, From The White House To America

by MGx Staff | May 11, 2014 | Environment | 0 |

A solar commitment, from the White House to America.

Nuclear power is not a viable solution

by magix | Sep 15, 2008 | Alternative Energy, Energy, Environment, National Security, Wind turbines | 0 |

Nuclear power is gaining a lot of hype lately as an answer to US energy needs. Proponents of nuclear power are extolling the ability of nuclear generators to produce terawatts of power without carbon emissions and that this will...

Production tax credits and renewable energy

by magix | Aug 25, 2008 | Alternative Energy, Decentralized energy, Distributed energy, Energy, Environment, Oregon, Wind turbines | 0 |

T. Boone Pickens, Texas oil billionaire and wind energy advocate is pushing Congress to renew the soon to expire Production Tax Credit (PTC) for another ten years. Pickens has been touring the country to promote his Midwest wind...

Locals Janet Bates and Steven Holt

by magix | Apr 21, 2008 | Alternative Energy, Decentralized energy, Distributed energy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Wind turbines | 0 |

Folk singer Janet Bates and wildlife photographer Steven Holt combine song and imagery.

Rural America must lead the way

by magix | Apr 21, 2008 | Alternative Energy, Decentralized energy, Distributed energy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Wind turbines | 0 |

Rural 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....

Rolling blackouts in South Africa getting worse

by magix | Apr 9, 2008 | Alternative Energy, Decentralized energy, Distributed energy, Energy, Environment, Wind turbines | 0 |

For 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...

Al Gore demonstrates climate crisis more imminent

by magix | Apr 8, 2008 | Environment, Wind turbines | 0 |

Please watch this presentation by Al Gore recently in California. Polar ice cap recession is dramatically increasing and is not building back up in the winters. This is very serious.

Microgrids or neighborhood energy

by magix | Apr 6, 2008 | Alternative Energy, Decentralized energy, Distributed energy, Energy, Environment, Oregon, Wind turbines | 0 |

Years 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...

Energy deregulation forces wide scale distributed energy

by magix | Mar 30, 2008 | Alternative Energy, Decentralized energy, Distributed energy, Energy, Environment, Foreign Policy, Oregon, Wind turbines | 0 |

In 1992 electricity began to be viewed less as an essential service and more as a commodity when...

NY eyes the merits of distributed generation

by magix | Mar 26, 2008 | Alternative Energy, Decentralized energy, Distributed energy, Energy, Environment | 0 |

New York City is looking at installing small CHP generators to meet ever expanding energy demands. New transmission lines average a million dollars a mile, however, in cities like New York and Chicago the cost can reach $10M per...

The carbon neutrality myth of centralized renewables

by magix | Mar 24, 2008 | Alternative Energy, Decentralized energy, Distributed energy, Energy, Environment, Wind turbines | 0 |

Being 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...

Transcendent challenge of our time

by magix | Mar 20, 2008 | Alternative Energy, Decentralized energy, Distributed energy, Energy, Environment, Foreign Policy, Politics, Wind turbines | 0 |

One of our presidential candidates, whose name I shall not mention because it triggers google ads...

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