Hello Lionel, I agree that the oil/energy crisis is one of the key challenges, probably the greatest. When I wrote the book in 2004-5 I hadn't yet taken that on board. In any update I would want to add some thoughts on how the end of oil would tie in with the RDP project. Any suggestions? It is surely at least obvious that the oil problem is itself also a political/social problem and needs political/social solutions to sort it out (in addition to a lot of new tech of course).

Meanwhile, I should explain that I had hardly finished writing this book when my life became paralysed by a hideous scheme of harassment by the management clique of the 20-20 Housing "Co-operative" I had helped to get started in 1985. www.2020housing.co.uk

That, combined with serious dental mercury poisoning which is now getting critical. I am still struggling to overcome the harassment scheme, I even had to write a whole other book about it. And now they are trying to evict me. Their legal case is a pile of total illogicality and perjury but I don't have legal aid and the outcome of the March 2007 hearing remains dependent on the whim of the judge.

Hopefully this disgraceful nonsense will be overcome and I can get back to working on these more positive matters again in 2007. (Meanwhile the spectacular update review of my autism theory, cracking the greatest medical catastrophe in history, the autism increase caused by dental mercury, is almost ready to send for publication.) Till then, cheers, Robin P Clarke.