MGx - Musings, Essays & Ballads

Recognizing the importance of addressing the climate change crisis and reducing dependence upon foreign oil and gas, the US Department of Energy (USDOE) has launched an aggressive program aiming to meet 20% of America’s energy needs via wind by 2030. In conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the American Wind Energy […]

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Offshore drilling will not produce oil for ten years or result in savings at the pump. Nevertheless, opening ANWR and the coastlines to drilling are going to be the new GOP mantra.

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A federal judge ordered the Bush administration to release this report which was legally mandated to be released in 2004. Like Iraq, Bush intends to leave global warming as a problem for the next administration. Read the full report at ABC News Read your city’s carbon footprint here

Video from Rawstory

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If Americans aren’t motivated by environmental concerns they are at least moved to action, or in this case into just staying home, by the damage to their pocket book.
The Department of Transportation said figures from March show the steepest decrease in driving ever recorded.
Compared with March a year earlier, Americans drove an estimated 4.3 […]

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PPAs or power purchase agreements are essentially a long term contract for energy now being offered to residential homeowners and businesses. The contract provides the basis for financing the installation of solar or other renewable energy generators by allowing the manufacturer to dip into a financing pool to make installations.
“There were approximately 10,000 homeowners […]

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

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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. Power plants are sited on once pristine environments while forested mountainsides are cut away to […]

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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.

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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 from a wet clothesline in France to the permanent wave, which in turn spurred concentration on the borax mines of […]

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In 1992 electricity began to be viewed less as an essential service and more as a commodity when deregulation was enacted with the passage of the Energy Policy Act. Previously, public and investor owned utilities controlled power generation, transmission and distribution within a set region. The Energy Policy Act, however, allowed for the […]

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Alas, Coquille for the most part ignored this event and was lit up as usual. Just remember that we have troops dying in Iraq to extract fuel to keep up the wasteful energy habits of Americans. Turning off a light when leaving a room helps not only the planet but honors the sacrifices […]

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More evidence of global warming.

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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 location then transmitted via high voltage lines many miles then stepped down to the lower […]

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One of our presidential candidates, whose name I shall not mention because it triggers google ads featuring him, asserts that the transcendent issue of our time is radical Islamic extremism. Somewhere in a cave connected to a dialysis machine is a tall thin Arab wringing his hands and avowing that the transcendent issue of […]

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