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		<title>Micro-grids are a matter of national security</title>
		<link>http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/12/14/micro-grids-are-a-matter-of-national-security/</link>
		<comments>http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/12/14/micro-grids-are-a-matter-of-national-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>magix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://mgx.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/picture-54-150x150.png" alt="picture-54" title="picture-54" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1893" />Mother nature demonstrated in brutal fashion last week the dangers of perpetuating a centralized electrical grid system.  Ice storms in the Northeast took out power to more than a million residents when trees and branches fell across power lines and began a cascading series of catastrophic failures.]]></description>
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		<title>Achieving 20% wind power by 2030</title>
		<link>http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/10/13/achieving-20-wind-power-by-2030/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>magix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During President Bushâ€™s 2006 State of the Union address he announced a national goal, of meeting 20% of the nationâ€™s energy needs from wind energy, by 2030. The timeline for meeting this goal was determined in part by the Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the AWEA (American Wind Energy Association) and will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investing in dependence is a failed strategy</title>
		<link>http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/06/30/investing-in-dependence-is-a-failed-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/06/30/investing-in-dependence-is-a-failed-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>magix</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coos County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rural America must lead the way</title>
		<link>http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/04/21/rural-america-must-lead-the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>magix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 mine the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolling blackouts in South Africa getting worse</title>
		<link>http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/04/09/rolling-blackouts-in-south-africa-getting-worse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>magix</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/04/09/rolling-blackouts-in-south-africa-getting-worse/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microgrids or neighborhood energy</title>
		<link>http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/04/06/microgrids-or-neighborhood-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>magix</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/04/06/microgrids-or-neighborhood-energy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 Death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy deregulation forces wide scale distributed energy</title>
		<link>http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/03/30/energy-deregulation-forces-wide-scale-distributed-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/03/30/energy-deregulation-forces-wide-scale-distributed-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>magix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 trading of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The carbon neutrality myth of centralized renewables</title>
		<link>http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/03/24/the-carbon-neutrality-myth-of-centralized-renewables/</link>
		<comments>http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/03/24/the-carbon-neutrality-myth-of-centralized-renewables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>magix</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/03/24/the-carbon-neutrality-myth-of-centralized-renewables/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 voltage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transcendent challenge of our time</title>
		<link>http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/03/20/transcendent-challenge-of-our-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>magix</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/03/20/transcendent-challenge-of-our-time/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No LNG video produced</title>
		<link>http://mgx.com/blogs/2008/03/10/no-lng-video-produced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>magix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 Part2 Part 3 — That is me at the end Ask your local access channel to air this video Share and Enjoy:]]></description>
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