MGx - Musings, Essays & Ballads » Centralized power http://mgx.com/blogs Pondering global affairs Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:53:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Gas fueled 620MW power plant explodes near Middletown, Connecticut http://mgx.com/blogs/2010/02/07/gas-fueled-620mw-power-plant-explodes-near-middletown-connecticut/ http://mgx.com/blogs/2010/02/07/gas-fueled-620mw-power-plant-explodes-near-middletown-connecticut/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:45:48 +0000 magix http://mgx.com/blogs/?p=4218 http://mgx.com/blogs/2010/02/07/gas-fueled-620mw-power-plant-explodes-near-middletown-connecticut/feed/ 0 Coal ash spill leaves high arsenic levels in drinking water http://mgx.com/blogs/2009/01/03/coal-ash-spill-leaves-high-arsenic-levels-in-drinking-water/ http://mgx.com/blogs/2009/01/03/coal-ash-spill-leaves-high-arsenic-levels-in-drinking-water/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:29:58 +0000 magix http://mgx.com/blogs/?p=2089 picture-1The estimated one billion gallon toxic coal ash spill has decimating ground and drinking water for generations to come. Arsenic levels range from 35 to 300 times accepted levels for drinking water and will destroy fish production for generations to come.]]> http://mgx.com/blogs/2009/01/03/coal-ash-spill-leaves-high-arsenic-levels-in-drinking-water/feed/ 0 President elect Obama in the dark as Hawaii suffers power outage http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/12/27/president-elect-obama-in-the-dark-as-hawaii-suffers-power-outage/ http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/12/27/president-elect-obama-in-the-dark-as-hawaii-suffers-power-outage/#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:19:15 +0000 magix http://mgx.com/blogs/?p=2071 picture-68It is with a certain amount of glee that I read Obama, along with 900K other people suffered an island wide power blackout Friday night. How better to demonstrate to our next president the inherent failings of centralized power. ]]> http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/12/27/president-elect-obama-in-the-dark-as-hawaii-suffers-power-outage/feed/ 0 500 million gallons of toxic coal ash spill into Tennessee River http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/12/23/500-million-gallons-of-toxic-coal-ash-spill-into-tennessee-river/ http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/12/23/500-million-gallons-of-toxic-coal-ash-spill-into-tennessee-river/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:47:24 +0000 magix http://mgx.com/blogs/?p=2049 picture-215Tennessee Valley Authority’s coal fired power plant in Harriman Tennessee spilled approximately 500 million gallons of toxic coal ash into the Tennessee River and surrounding areas. From The Alliance For Appalachia]]> http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/12/23/500-million-gallons-of-toxic-coal-ash-spill-into-tennessee-river/feed/ 1 Another winter storm knocks out power and disrupts holiday travel http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/12/20/another-winter-storm-knocks-out-power-and-disrupts-holiday-travel/ http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/12/20/another-winter-storm-knocks-out-power-and-disrupts-holiday-travel/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:04:52 +0000 magix http://mgx.com/blogs/?p=2011 picture-58From Iowa to New England, tens of thousands of people are without power in yet another catastrophic failure of centralized power.
Snowfall affected a large region, but the worst of the ice storm _ and resulting power outages _ was in a band across northern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
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