Sounds like I "crashed and burned" on that one then?

(doesn't it make you happy there's no engine and fuel in most gliders!)

Malcolm

PS Apologies to the readers for going distinctly way, way off message
here...


"Shawn" sdotcurry@bresnananotherdotnet wrote in message
...
Malcolm Austin wrote:
Hi Jim,
sorry I touched a raw nerve there! Without wanting to ramp
up the
"discussion" my comment would be: -

Your argument really seems to say that, dam the rest of the world, we are
going
to use all the energy we want. We did similar things in the past, as
with high
sulphur coal for power generation. The result was lots of acidified
lakes and dead
trees east of us.

Attitudes will have to change, or your very dry Death Valley will cover
rather more
of the country than it currently does..

Death Valley is currently covered in wild flowers. I was there last week,
beautiful. The world is changing so fast these days, you can't even rely
on a time tested metaphor.

Shawn