New York Times Ideas 2007: Biofuels

Shalom! Your times I mention another video every year to beginning for a last seven years, the beginning of December a year and ideas issue of there magazine. And a Rabbi reading that sometimes reflects Jewishly about an article it seemingly it is nothing to do about Judaism. There are two items that when the magazine of the beginning of the articles that I thought has lot of significance for the survival of the west and for the security of the state of Israel. And they same living you think about that they have nothing to do it back when you handle a little bit more. I think hopefully you will see the connection that I see.

One of them have to do with asteroids, now the signs of an asteroids is that they are very small to statistical chance unlikely chance that any of the asteroids out there which we can identify now increasingly well was strike the earth. However, if I strike the earth it will be devastating and scientist can degree on what to do even if they could determine precisely that one asteroid was going to come because let us say, it is going to be one scientist that might kind of delegation later, the sermon mention to me, let us say think an asteroids can hit the ocean then you are trying reflect it and you want to bring it into a lot of little pieces instead you bring and the two big pieces each piece falls in a major city.

So, what you have to do with Judaism? Well, right now, on the American Intelligence Community has concluded that a run is unlikely to build a nuclear weapon. They are probably not planning to do so. Now, I think that is a lot wash and not that I am an experts, but all the experts I read whom I trust over the years included the American Intelligence reports on the run or not intelligent. But even if they are rock, they are still small statistical chances that are run are proceeding full blast, I am trying to develop nuclear weapons and it is hiding it from us. Would not be proven to devote a lot of effort and the small chance that arise to try to develop nuclear weapons to figure out a way to top them, because if they get nuclear weapon, it is going to be like an asteroid hitting the earth.

They have promise to destroy Israel. The president was ask those people to imagine to role out the United States. Everybody aggress that they got missiles that can reach Western Europe and Israel and soon will be able to reach United States in a few years. So apply the analysis, the second article that we have to do with this was biofuels. They said them that people are working very hard on developing increasingly energy, productive alternatives to gasoline.

So, when you buy ethanol gas is 10% gas on the premise today that it takes so much energy to make that, it is probably not worthy. So all this companies had been working and still very far away, but the New York times has until know that a fellow who was want to major developers of a huge computer company, this put a hundred of millions of dollars in the Google is investing a lot of capital virtual money and the companies they think they are close to a big breakthrough, which they believe and confirming a vegetable matter into usable fossil fuels to power car and things. And they believe that within 20 years 45% of the oil that we import, will not mean to be imported.

Now, it is a very interesting fact, but for me when I read about that, it seems to me cuts the legs out from the histrionically Brahms that are hurting the worlds flustering terrorism the threatening the security of America and Israel. So these two articles that seemingly have nothing to do with security of the west about biofuels and asteroids. I think in fact could be metaphors for very important of the analysis applied to this important issues. Shalom!