Hi Bob ; No problem at all.
> It is not technology itself > that gets us in trouble, but rather the > application. Yes this is true. You know when I am editing a Word document I am amazed at how long it takes to create the document from scratch, but I can delete it almost instantly. The point is that destroying is so much easier than creating. A single match can destroy a house, but nothing similar to a match could create a house. Even if 99 people out of one hundred are good, the one bad can cause so much destuction that the balance can be shifted enough so that the net effect is negative for all. If we could weed out the 1 bad guy out of 100, then I would be all for technology. But even so there is always the cumulative effect of technology which is not so easy to identify. If we lived simply, yes we would have leprosy (but probably a lot less cancer), we wouldn't have open heart surgery (but probably less heart disease), we would have to walk to work (but we wouldn't have global warming or Peak Oil or obesity problems), we wouldn't have electricity (but no low level uranium dumps or acid rain or the atom bomb or Depleted Uranium munitions), general sickness, even plagues (but not anti-biotic resistant organsms, the jury is still out on plagues, we still have HIV, H5N1, TB), etc. IMHO, it is not at all clear that the net effect of technology is a positive one. My recommendation is approach with caution. Keep up the good work. I have yet to make my first test batch (sorry Keith), but I'm working on it. BR Peter G. Thailand __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
