MGx - Musings, Essays & Ballads

Energy creation is relatively simple in theory. Rare earth high gauss magnets spin past copper coils along a magnetically permeable stator core and electromotive force (EMF) is the result. While there are a myriad of technical details that optimize this effect nothing more complicates the production of energy today than the geopolitical climate […]

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Probably everyone has noticed already but crude oil hit $126 a barrel on Friday, just in time for the summer driving season. The significance of this is deeply reflected in our national trade deficit where according to the US Department of Energy we import 12 to 14 million barrels of oil per day. […]

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The price of copper is rising due in no small part to the increase in power generation. Foreclosed on homes are being gutted of copper pipes and sold at scrap and then exported to, yup, you guessed it, China.
scrap copper sells for about $3.50 a pound — against 70 cents just three years ago.
He […]

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Energy demands around the world sees record US coal exports.
U.S. coal exports are responding to a combination of high demand and problems in some other coal-producing countries. In China, a bitter winter has made shipping coal difficult while Australia is struggling to increase production and flooding has closed some mines.
The U.S. dollar’s decline in value […]

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Bush requested the largest one year Pentagon budget exclusive of Iraq and Afghanistan ever, $515.4B. On the ‘buy’ list are F-22 Raptors, a CVN-78 aircraft carrier and a Virginia class nuclear submarine. In order to pitch this to Congress and the American people guess who the ‘threat’ target is? As detailed by […]

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The fight for energy, the need to provide for and control the increasing population and the lust for power are driving the planet toward a massive military showdown.
Since the dawn of the 21st century, five of the six countries involved in the six-party talks have increased their military spending by 50% or more. The sixth, […]

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From Asia Times, the flacid, pint sized ’stimulus package’ needs more than Viagra to make any headway.
I get a real laugh (”Hahaha!”) out of the US emergency stimulus program of just giving away $150 billion in $800 increments to various citizens, who total, I assume, 18,750,000 people at 800 clams apiece. Hahaha! Free money! We […]

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From the Existentialist Cowboy
Highly leveraged US expansion, growth and empire are about to be swept away like a bamboo hut. As China leads the world in dumping dollars, the US appears to have exhausted the means by which it can continue to leverage or finance expansion and imperialism.
Bush could not have picked a worse time […]

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US military forces, having been stretched thin protecting global oil resources, are also one of the largest oil consumers effectively fighting wars for oil to fuel wars. This disastrous course has led to a foreign policy that has so weakened our energy thirsty country that despite our military might has been unable to maintain […]

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As the developer of a high efficiency wind turbine and high bandwidth direct drive DC generator, I pay close attention to the price of copper and magnets as they are crucial to creating energy. Previously I wrote how China having 98% of the world’s neodymium reserves holds the market on high gauss magnets. […]

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Selling arms is such a convoluted business and it seems there is never any end to when it may return to bite you. Take this article from Asia Times where US meddling in foreign affiars has ticked off our largest creditor.
Large-scale air and naval maneuvers off China’s southeast coast last week demonstrated the post-17th […]

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