MGx - Musings, Essays & Ballads

Well, I am in NYC attending annual 2008 AWEA wind financing conference and it has been an education. Not an education about financing techniques, research has already filled me in on that topic, but on the cultural view of Wall Street investors regarding renewable energy. Some very illustrious speakers have attended so far, […]

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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 reduce our dependence on foreign resources and thereby improve national security.
As energy demands increase around […]

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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 farms to replace 22% of natural gas produced electricity. To date, Congress has been reluctant […]

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and other places.
New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed putting windmills on city bridges and rooftops as part of an ambitious push for renewable energy.
Bloomberg outlined his plan Tuesday night at a Las Vegas conference on alternative energy.
You can read his speech here or watch it here

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All those Sanjel trucks spotted at the Comfort Inn near Pony Village Mall are to start a fracture stimulation program at wells along Beaver Hill and Radio Hill.
On October 6, 2004, a multi-hole coring program was commenced on the Methane Energy Corp. leases. Coring was needed to collect coal samples so that accurate gas content […]

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In 1943 US Intelligence learned that a fast, maneuverable German jet was being produced in the Messerschmitt factories that would deliver a crushing advantage over allied forces during World War II. Racing against time, Lockheed Martin engineers bunkered down in Burbank, CA to produce the first production jet fighter, the P-80.
Lead by Clarence “Kelly” […]

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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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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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This past week has been very hectic as we have been developing critical path schedules, ordering components and completing organization responsibilities all toward the completion of the integrated wind turbine/generator. We are looking at early September for completion and are now trying to figure out what color ceramic coating to apply and that is […]

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This 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 $624,000 check to build an air traffic control tower, Horizon Air announced they will cut service to Coos County.
One of […]

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From Rawstory a report predicts the cost of oil will rise to $200 a barrel — or $7 a gallon — in the next two years, CBS News reported Friday.

Families will be paying more for gasoline than food soon.

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In the wake of the horrific flooding in Iowa and the Midwest commodities traders are predicting a sharp increase in food prices across the nation. The floods, made worse by collapsed levees, devastated millions of acres of crops in an already shortened growing season but that is not the main reason for food price […]

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The price of crude oil was approximately $25 a barrel just prior to the invasion of Iraq. Now we sit at $140 per barrel and the only people benefiting are the oil companies, OPEC and defense contractors.
Oil surged to a new record high on Monday of nearly $140 a barrel, propelled by weakness […]

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Belize, a Central American country with a population of 314,000 has been in an ongoing power struggle with the country’s Canadian owned power company, Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) over a rate increase.
Fortis is the majority owner of Belize Electricity Limited which can only raise electricity rates after applying for and being awarded a rate increase […]

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The NY Times reports today that the $4 per gallon national average price of gas has hit rural America the hardest.
Sociologists and economists who study rural poverty say the gasoline crisis in the rural South, if it persists, could accelerate population loss and decrease the tax base in some areas as more people move closer […]

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