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Launch a new age of energy independence

August 11th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Decentralized energy · Energy independence · Oil imports · Microgrid · Energy · Sustainability · Alternative Energy · Distributed energy · Renewable energy · LNG · Environment

Wind to meet 20% US energy needs by 2030

August 4th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: GI Benefits · Illegal wiretapping · Oil imports · Energy independence · Decentralized energy · John McCain · Community wind · Carbon credit · Carbon tax · Obama · Warrantless snooping · Global economy · Energy · Distributed energy · Alternative Energy · Oregon · Environment · Wind turbines · 2008 · Sustainability · Iran · Climate Change · Wind test center · Politics

Complex solutions give little wriggle room

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Energy · Decentralized energy · Energy independence · Valentine's Day · China · Magnets · Alternative Energy · Distributed energy · Wind turbines · Rogue River Wind · Environment

Wind turbines and prototypes

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Sustainability · Energy · Energy independence · Rogue River Wind · Wind turbines · Alternative Energy · Distributed energy · Renewable energy · Environment

Garbage island floating in the pacific

June 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Estimated to be the size of Texas or bigger, plastic flotsam swirls around in the Pacific gyre endlessly

Watch the rest here

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Tags: Coos County · Oregon · Environment

V-LIM wind turbine rotor arrives

June 7th, 2008 · No Comments

This has been a very exciting day for me as a major component of the V-LIM, my wind turbine arrived today at the fabrication site in Coos Bay. Just off the truck from Blaine, WA this annulus is the rotor or will be when we add a few important things like magnets and fan […]

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Tags: Energy · Decentralized energy · Energy independence · Rogue River Wind · Wind turbines · Alternative Energy · Distributed energy · Renewable energy · Environment

High prices may curb global warming

May 27th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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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Tags: Global economy · Energy independence · Oil imports · Energy · Climate Change · Alternative Energy · Renewable energy · Environment

We should decide our own economic future

May 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Right now, as the stars dim on the current administration and a new sun peaks its head over the horizon, our economic future is being debated by elite corporatists and economists. They are debating the merits and pitfalls of ‘free trade’ or corporate globalization versus the current disregard for multilateral influence or imperial globalization.
They […]

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Tags: Global economy · Energy independence · Energy · 2008 · Renewable energy · Wind turbines · Environment

Localization

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Last night I attended a meeting in Coos Bay relating to ways in which to support local business and thereby keep our dollars local. An organization called Sustainable Connections in Bellingham, Washington has implemented a buy local program with positive results.
Locally, we have an organization forming which is endeavoring to do the […]

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Tags: Energy independence · Localization · Energy · Coos County · Oregon · Environment

Locals Janet Bates and Steven Holt

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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

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Tags: Energy · Decentralized energy · Energy independence · Solar · Climate Change · Wind turbines · Environment · Alternative Energy · Distributed energy · Renewable energy · Politics

Rural America must lead the way

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Energy · Sustainability · Rogue River Wind · Decentralized energy · Energy independence · Microgrid · Solar · Climate Change · Rural Organizing Project · Alternative Energy · Environment · Iraq · Distributed energy · Public Utility · Wind turbines · Renewable energy · Politics

Rolling blackouts in South Africa getting worse

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments

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 the plants and grid shut down for maintenance.
Something we have heard from several specialists […]

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Tags: Energy · Sustainability · Decentralized energy · Energy independence · Privatization · Solar · Rogue River Wind · Wind turbines · Ducted fan wind turbine · Alternative Energy · Distributed energy · Public Utility · Renewable energy · Environment

Al Gore demonstrates climate crisis more imminent

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Solar · Climate Change · Wind turbines · Renewable energy · Environment

Microgrids or neighborhood energy

April 6th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Decentralized energy · Energy · Sustainability · Energy independence · Community wind · Microgrid · Solar · Rogue River Wind · Climate Change · Ducted fan wind turbine · Alternative Energy · Oregon · Distributed energy · Public Utility · Wind turbines · Renewable energy · Environment

Climate change ad

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments


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Tags: Sustainability · Energy · Energy independence · Climate Change · Renewable energy · Environment · Alternative Energy · Politics