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To: Matt Brown who wrote (13518)	11/8/1999 1:24:00 AM
From: jmhollen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 150070

Dear Matt, Sometimes you should mix a little baking soda in with your acid wit.... :-) AQCI will not be able to build harvesters fast enough to meet the upcoming demand IMHO. The people who are doing this were involved in the design/development of the robotic arm on the space shuttle; they know their stuff. The cutting of old growth forests is being fought by the tree huggers at every turn (search: Greenpeace & RAN). Indiscriminate cutting in the rain forests is definitely wrecking the planet. I'm a firm believer in responsible progress though engineering; but, not at the expense of killing off the undiscovered (possibly medicinal) plants and animals in the major rain forests - or screwing up our oxygen supply. I grew up in the Panama Canal Zone, where solid mahogany doors were common on closets. That availability of premium hardwoods is no longer the case; and you have to wrestle with the tree huggers and ignorant Hollyweird do-gooders at every corner to get it; whether you are doing it right or wrong. I have brought AQCI here for consideration because I have spoken with the head yayhoo, Gary Ackles, several times. He struck me as a pretty straight-up Dude. If they need a project manager for the upcoming operations in Panama, I just may take a shot at it - for old times sake (I left in '67). This company has now delivered "..real-life hardware.." to the jobsite in Brazil and is doing what it said it would do. (Engineers, opposed to BS business artists, are like that - our reputations rest on the successful completion of our projects) Harvesting of FREE mahogany is underway "..today..", and every log is worth thousands ($$$$$). I am personally aware of tons of submerged mahogany and other hardwoods (..like "ironwood", which will dull an axe in 3 or 4 blows..) in Panama. Maddan Lake (water reservoir for the canal), the Chagres river which feeds Gatun Lake, Gatun Lake itself, and numerous other rivers meeting the sea are full of the stuff. The rivers are used to float logs to the ocean for rafting to the mills near Panama City and Colon. Having snorkled and SCUBA'd the entire area, and paddled through the canal in the annual Boy Scouts cayuco (..dugout canoe..) race, I'd say I have a pretty solid perspective on some of the places where AQCI could find more wood. The NW USA and Canada are logger's heaven, the rivers are full of lost logs, waiting to be collected. Ergo, the same would be true for the Philipines, Malaysia, Laos, etc., etc. Wood may be a renewable resource, but FREE wood - not requiring any logging - is a real environmental blessing. AQCI slipped of onto the "..pinks.." while the company was busting hump to get their machine to Brazil, but they are actively getting their paperwork sorted out from what I understand. When they are relisted, if not before, this sucker is going to cook,... whether you approve of it or not..!! (tee hee) Hey, my Man, >>> YOU <<< are the Master of nit-picking details. Check it out (..thoroughly..) and let us in on your findings. In the meantime; I'd put the sucker on the radar screen and keep close eye on it. Regards, John :-) ps: Every river and lake in the world, where tree harvesting is done, has (..free - no cutting required..) sunken logs laying on the bottom waiting to be ".collected..". Sunken logs are big, slippery, and heavy (once surfaced). Logging companies don't have time to fiddle with them; and they don't have the right equipment - AQCI does.