MGx - Musings, Essays & Ballads

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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