Not necessarily trivia… Prineville was the territorial seat for the Wasco Territories, the Southern Oregon Territories, southern being south of the Colombia, and is pretty much the oldest city of the Oregon Territories. A classic combination of farming, ranching, logging and lumber town, with an official unemployment of around 18% it has probably been hit the hardest in these past twenty years. The mills all closed when the woods shut down, which trickled down through the support community with ever more job losses, and in turn a high level of attrition as people left an already small community (less than 10,000) to merely survive. What Google, now Apple and potentially Facebook have done is put a new face on the recovery here on the Oregon High Desert. 

Not that it employs a lot of people… about fifty at the operational Google facitlity. And sadly, though a sizable subset of the High Desert’s 13 and 15 plus percent unemployemt are construction workers, these big projects are bid out to construction outfits from Portland or Seattle that bring in their own crews. The trickle out from the construction may be a couple of hundred odd/ball jobs, nothing like the touted “thousands”.

Show me a working model that has been running for months and you’ll convince me.

Lots of people with no love for traditional energy are putting hundreds of billions in alt energy. If magnetic generators worked, they’d be using them now. What you’re talking about is perpetual motion, which does not and can not exist, mainly because of that little thing called friction.