Hello Richard I think you really need to do some homework, on a much broader basis than you originally proposed. Your idea of good-guys and bad-guys, as well as of what's good and what's bad, is more than somewhat ill-informed.
Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ >OK group, here it is: > >In the 70's I read that a team of (New Mexico?) Ag >students discovered the ancient ansestor of modern >corn plant in the Sonoran Desert. It only grew 4 >or 5 kernnels on a very small mis-shapen cob. But >it grew in the DESERT. > >In the 80's a (Florida?) Ag prof. was reported >to hawe said that the common pond cattail contained >more SUGAR per kilogram than any other plant. > >In the early 90's I read a report from a committee >of geneticists that a plant could be GENETICALLY >ALTERED to produce enough sugar to make >distillation of ethanol economically feasable. > >I have no idea where these atatements are true or >not. I was not interested it the stuff at the >time, so nothing remains but isolated memories. >These memories are in my head. I have no proof >they occured. Now I want to confirm them or discard >them. The tiny tread that connects these memories >is the basis of my book. > >Anyone ever read these statemnts? Know about them? > >So consider this, if a plant could be genetically >bio-engineered to have the following characteristics: >to grow in semiarid areas, to be easy to harvest, to >never need cultivation, to be extremely high in >sucrose and grow rapidly all year, then, the oil >cartel would collapse, the skies would clear, global >warming would stop and the cost of all >manufactured goods prices would decrease. Of >course, the geneticist(s) would face some withering >resistance from the oil cartel. And I suspect they >already have. > >I believe genecists are working on this precise >task, someplace on earth, probably not in an oil >producing nation or state (duh). > >My book is about the problems of a Sprint car >driving physician (Yea!!!) releasing genetic >research on the internet (the geeks plant genetic >code, Yea!!!) in the face of oppposition from oil >interests (Boo!!!). > >I think this is an important time in history. > >Don't give up. > >R.D. FitzGibbon Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
