12/06/97 7:52 PM Its actually, 1:54PM, Sunday, December 7th,1997 here in Sydney, Australia in the living room of the

Kukura family on the north shore. It was a week ago and a day that Laini and I arrived at Sydney airport and tomorrow it will be two weeks since we left Crestone headed for Denver. There has been no communication from Bill and that is a concern since he should have been able to send messages by email via the computer and internet link that Laini and I set up for him prior to leaving. His lack of response has meant that I have no credit card and dont have my box number. Is he dead. Has he left without notice. Is he ignoring the mail. Has he lost the internet link. Is the computer down for some reason. 12/06/97 9:03 PM Its actually 3:04PM here on the North Shore and New Zealand and Australia are playing a one day cricket game in Adelaide right now with the Kiwis already thrashing the Aussie bowling with no wickets down yet. I did manage to find a number of references to Samantha Resolute, Anaconda and Centaur the three companies who are developing nickel-cobalt resources in WA. Geoff Motteram is Director, Executive-Technical for the Anaconda project which is a lateritic deposit near Leonora which its said will use an acid leach and sulfide precip process and then hydrogen reduction which sounds like a clone of the process used in the Moa Bay-Port Nickel project but doesnt seem to make much sense for a WA project. Unless the economics favor transportation of a solid semi finished product to a location at which inexpensive fuel is available. However I think these people have their heads inside their socks. Why? There are inherent inefficiencies in the process concept that involve two stages of digestion when one is all that is necessary. The precipitation of a solid product increased capital costs for the second set of leaching equipment. So what would I do? Acid Leaching is good for maximum cobalt recovery but it makes more sense to solvent extract the metal values from the product liquor and LISSA doesnt have a clue what Im talking about.

What is the most logical process step to follow acid leaching? Solvent extraction seems to be a logical step and is I believe the approach used by Centaur although I believe they may ammonia leach a sulfide precipitate. Sulfide precip should be banned. IX is another possibility. Selective leaching is feasible for low mag ores. The Caron process is limited by lower cobalt extractions for some reason. It may have to do with the reduction step. Acid leaching is preferred for low mag ores high in cobalt and pyrometallurgy for higher mag ores. It is a little confusing to try to integrate the nickel cobalt projects with the solar sustainable renewable energy stuff. The Redfieldian approach involving a rational review of ones experiences to clarify a purpose has already been largely rejected in favor of a purely intuitive prajnic orientation of absolute and total commitment to higher intelligence. Like the questions like.: Why is everything that is. Why Australia and why the USA? Why chemistry and chemical engineering. Why mining and chemicals. Why innovative process expertise, renewable energy, sustainable technologies, solar fuel, and the like. Why America is not a review of the most explosively developed economy in history as a possible model for the future of the next one in Australia and in particular in Western Australia? 23% of the Western Worlds alumina. A similar portion of its iron ore. Titanium from beach sands. Tantalum. Nickel and Cobalt. Gold. Diamonds. Fossil gas. Vanadium. Titanium. Aluminium. What then is the transformational consequences of the transposition of a Indian Ocean-side site for a stand-alone energy self sufficient sustainable village-communitycity of the future - possibly located somewhere in the southwestern corner of Western Australia perhaps on the coast somewhere between Perth and Albany where there is adequate to heavy rainfall like Pemberton Manjimup and the karri jarrah forests of the most southern regions of the south-west like down the coast from Augusts which is near Cape Leeuwin is it not right okay. That would seem to be a good location to establish a solar village to serve as the seed and incubator for a much larger

community which can demonstrate on the largest possible scale, just how a sustainable community and economy can be designed, constructed and operated. 12/07/97 12:16 AM Australia isolated on the issue of green house gas emissions. So I was searching for information on the south west coast region of Western Australia in an attempt to identify sites for establishment of a sustainable city scale community. There is a strong attraction to a mild moist sunny climate as far from Perth as possible, East of Albany is too far and north of Augusta is too close too Perth and too expensive for that reason. The coastline dips to the south from Augusta and then it basically East west from about Cape s. The coastal region about 50 km to 50 km along the coast from Augusta to the west looks like a favorable place too look but there is very little info on this region. Apparently little in the way of established settlements and little in the way of roads close to the coast. There is a strong feeling of attraction to this relatively remote area and it may be that the best thing to do is to go there. It is quite sparsely populated although the inland towns like Pemberton are better known and populated as well as popular tourist attractions. I recall from Perth that the region was considered wet and too cloudy. Pemberton apparently gets about 45 inches or more of rain per annum and that should make for lush Napa like vegetation and the emerald effect of the Bat Area along with a very pleasant mild climate despite the rain. I believe this region has the right combination of sun and moisture for productive agriculture and also prime wine growing even better than the Margaret River region which is already achieving global fame for its wines. Wine production offers and additional business opportunity to ad to the list. Glass windows and doors as well as water heaters have already been identifies along with electrical wire and equipment, plumbing fixtures and piping. It still feels tight to put in a soda ash plat that is Australian owned with a local partner somewhere like the Wold property. That feels like the reason for 7 years in Wyoming. Advanced, high tech aluminum framed and clad composite frame multiple paned, evacuated and inert gas filled highly insulating windows and

doors. One of the problems with this new site is the shrinkage of the market for homes in the Rio Grande-Colorado River region. This suggests much smaller scale production for an export market, yet the concept of construction of mutant and clone communities remains a favorable aspect for any suitable site in other Australian sites such as South Australia 12/07/97 4:17 AM So it is said that all is perfection. That everything we experience is within the harmonious perfection of the wholeness of consciousness. One of the nice aspects of this enlightened view of things is that it dispels the darkness that comes with dwelling upon the agony and suffering we feel and the enmity we feel to those who we blame for the wrongs done to us in life. Like those who might have involved themselves in plans to steal my property and separate me from my children in their deluded brainwashed obsessive attachment to the dream of revolution and of saving the Earth. So I remember sad eyes and feel the intensity of those times. As awareness of the survival of spirit beyond the death of the body puts a completely different light on things. It can be really quite strange to awaken to the reality that consciousness itself is the ultimate reality - and realize that the comfortable old idea of a material and objective Universe existing independently of us is gone forever leaving only consciousness. Yet its the idea of an objective reality that gives rise to the strangeness and the idea of an objective reality is part of the perfection and is meant to be