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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1529)	10/24/2005 8:50:57 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218121

I wonder whether much wood is being leftover these days. The new technology they use for building houses is plywood made out of wood chips. I think they even chip the wood on site. If you see one of the sites where they cut down the wood, it's clear cut, and the cut site is circular. The new houses they are building with it around here are huge -- at least 6000 sq. foot, with high ceilings they call cathedral ceilings. I wonder whether they're as expensive to heat as they look. My dad's house is a modernist huge thing like that -- very tall ceilings but post and beam construction, lots of exposed timber, exposed rough rocks. It costs him a fortune to heat and cool, $500 a month just for electricity. Last year we spent $2000 total for electricity and $1000 total for fuel oil, for a 3000 sq ft house.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1529)	10/25/2005 1:37:11 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218121

I told you already, MQ, you should have emigrated to Brazil and become a guru to a bunch of 20 years old and they would start next day building this contraption. Then you'd do the fine tuning. Then one of them would speak with the padarias and pizzerias owners so they would save money and space making bread and pizza using this oven instead of burning eucaliptus. One day you would have a statue there. Even a street named MQ. You know why Brazilians are wining car racing? Because there is no cheap tecnology gizmo available, like in Europe and the US. You have to understand about engines and have ears and feelings for the car. Then you go back to the box and tell the mechanics what they showd do to make it faster. They extract 110HP out of a VW beetle engine. Now this is not so important anymore because technology allows the engineers to capture data and fine tune even on the go. Hence we lost the edge.