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Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser

Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser is author of CONVENIENT MYTHS, the green revolution – perceptions, politics, and facts Convenient Myths

Most Recent Articles by Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser:

"Free Solar Energy" – for only $2+ per kWh

Sunshine is free but solar power is not. In fact, it’s anything else but free or cheap. As reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project (CDEP), also known as the Tonopah Solar Energy Project, has stopped operating and has been "mothballed." The solar collectors, shown nearby, cover 300 acres.
- Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Let's outlaw the Weather (and the Climate, too)

Some days it's too cold, on others too warm;  Some weeks it doesn't rain at all, in others there's a deluge; Some months it dead calm, in others the gales are blowing.
- Saturday, February 15, 2020

Mid-Winter Musings from the Underground in Punxsutawney, PA, USA

Mid-Winter Musings from the Underground in Punxsutawney, PA, USAMy Dear Cousins Wiarton Willie (in Ontario) and Shubenacadie Sam (in Nova Scotia) in the Great White North of CANADA,  Phyllis, I, and our entire offspring were really happy to get your greetings last year. What was a real surprise and most pleasant news to read was that our "long-lost" cousin Shubenacadie Sam is fine as well!  We hope to keep in regular contact now. Luckily now, mid-winter is here again. 
- Saturday, February 1, 2020


Xenobots Bricks are Coming

Xenobots Bricks are ComingAs the Independent reports, "Scientists have created what they claim are the first ever "living robots": entirely new life-forms created out of living cells." "It is the first time that humanity has been able to create "completely biological machines from the ground up", the team of authors behind the discovery write in a new paper." The New York Times is similarly excited, writing "A Frankenstein material' teeming with — and ultimately made by — photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce." Not to be outdone, Science reports ‘Frankenstein' material can self-heal, [and] reproduce.
- Friday, January 17, 2020

Chewing Gum Revelations about the Relations

Piece of birch tar "chewing gum" found in Syltholm, southern Denmark
Chewing Gum Revelations about the Relations
My Dear Relatives close by and far afield, the science of ancestral lineages is progressing rapidly. As it shows, nearly each of us is related to everyone else via some DNA (desoxy-ribonucleic acid) fragments that we inherited from our Neanderthal- GREAT-(GREAT-…) grand-mothers and -fathers. 

As an article at dailygamingworld.com states "A shocking discovery is that modern humans and Neanderthals mated several times during the last ice age, although our lines split 800,000 years ago. For this reason, many people now have Neanderthal DNA."

I don't know why that would be shocking, either to you or the late Neanderthals. Doesn't everyone have ancestors? 

- Friday, January 10, 2020

Wildfires and Virtual Reality

Wildfires and Virtual RealityA recent news post at Gizmodo claims to show “The Satellite Images That Show a Decade of Climate Change”. Needless to say, it was widely mentioned in the mainstream media. 

The above photo in this “documentary” shows a satellite shot with apparently numerous fires burning over a landscape of approximately 600 km in horizontal extent. Unfortunately, there are no captions, no date and no description of what it depicts. Given all the current fires in SE Australia, on first glance, it seemed to show that area, including the island of Tasmania on the bottom right. 

- Thursday, January 2, 2020

Need a novel New Year’s Resolution?  -- Try Climate Obsession!

Jump on the Climate Obsession Bandwagon!(Somewhat tongue-in-cheek) If you are thinking about making New Year’s Resolutions (NYRs) to soothe your conscience, I suggest you venture from the beaten path. Pumping iron and exercising on the old treadmill type resolutions never last long before being forgotten and postponed for another year. Be honest now:  Didn’t you make such last year—and the years before?
- Sunday, December 29, 2019

Cannon Points and Christmas Bells

Christmas BellsCannon Points are typically geographic promontories on lakes, rivers, and ocean fronts that were useful for locating cannons that might be a formidable deterrence to any invaders. Cannons -- Not only for Defense In times of peace and in remote communities, they were more or less critical points from where cannon shots could be heard throughout the area, to alert the community to important events and news.
- Monday, December 23, 2019

Who are the Litterbugs?

Who are the Litterbugs?

The world is polluted and steadily becoming more so.

The main culprit, as I see it, is not mankind’s invention of new materials, implements and devices. Rather it’s their indiscriminate applications and—most importantly—reckless disposal or release into the environment, much of that into the high seas.

- Saturday, November 23, 2019

High Noon – at the Cross Roads

High Noon – at the Cross Roads

Movie star Gary Cooper (1901-1961) might find it difficult to decide what to aim for in the up-and-coming contest. There’ll soon be more than ONE villain on the road …

High Noon has changed.

The typical villains of yore have morphed and updated their methods of travel. Actually, it’s now a fight between robots for technological superiority. And driving your car may not be the same much longer too! You are in a fight with autonomous cars with invisible drivers and passengers.

- Friday, November 15, 2019

Trust in Thrust -- Another "Perpetual Motion Machine" Concept

Trust in Thrust -- Another Perpetual Motion Machine ConceptModern science has produced some miraculous advances in several fields. None of the ideas proposed or "invented" have ever seen any device that actually could produce energy out of nothing. Of course, that idea, commonly referred to as a "Perpetual Motion machine" (PMM) and also known as a "Perpetuum mobile," cannot exist. The idea has been around for a thousand years or longer by now, but all attempts to build one have failed.
- Wednesday, October 16, 2019

"Fridays-for-Hubraum" – a new Friday Movement

Fridays-for-Hubraum– a new Friday MovementFridays are rapidly getting new meanings. From the common abbreviation TGIF, to the recent “Fridays-for-Future” (FFF) demonstrations, right now, yet another Friday-meaning appears to be getting a large crowd of followers – and fast. Actually much faster than the FFF movement; it’s called the “Fridays-for-Hubraum” movement (FFH). Let’s begin with an explanation.
- Monday, September 30, 2019

The New Moose Express

The New Moose ExpressFor my Dear Readers who may not have heard of the Moose Express, it's the northern equivalent of the famous Pony Express, a top-speed transcontinental delivery service of news between the continent's east and west coast communities. It had its heyday in the early 1860s before it got overtaken by the much faster (and cheaper) transcontinental telegraph system, as pioneered by Samuel Morse (1791-1872).
- Thursday, September 12, 2019


The Fluorine Conundrum

The Fluorine ConundrumThe element fluorine (with the chemical notation ‚"F") is in the crosshairs of many do-gooders these days. That isn't new but appears to have recently gained momentum. For example, the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), has recently called for a scientific meeting on the ‚"Environmental Risk Assessment of PFAS," to take place at Durham, NC, on Aug. 12-15, 2019. The EPA's current PFAS Research list (as of July 2019) comprises 165 of such chemicals. Of course, that's only a small fraction of natural and synthetic organic chemicals, i.e. substances that contain carbon-to-fluorine bonds. My own list, based on TerraToxTM databases covers more than 8,000 of such compounds.
- Saturday, August 10, 2019

Samuel de Champlain and the Coureur des bois

Samuel de Champlain memorial statue in Orillia
The (former) Samuel de Champlain memorial statue in Orillia
Some folks are keen on re-writing or re-interpreting history. A while ago, in the U.S., century-old statues erected in memory and reverence of past explorers, politicians, and soldiers, all widely renowned in the communities at their time, were "de-erected" and sent to local history-resting pounds. Now, this craze has found "another enemy" with the name Samuel de Champlain. As Terry Pedwell writes on July 7, 2019, for The Canadian Press , "Samuel de Champlain monument: Hurtful or educational?" The specific bronze of controversy is a statue of the man, erected nearly a century ago, in the town of Orillia, Ontario.
- Friday, July 19, 2019

16-Psyche--the Motherlode

16-Psyche
Artist's concept of the asteroid 16-Psyche, which is thought to be a stripped planetary core
As reported by WalesOnline, there is a large mineral-laden rock, dubbed 16-Psyche, orbiting the sun, ready to be captured, mined, and anything else you might want to do with it. Even without any mineable resources, its size alone, 140 miles across, could make some folks real estate billionaires. And to prove the point, the rock has also caught the attention of NASA and space mining companies, which hope--eventually--to harvest the asteroid's presumed rich reserves of gold, etc. 16-Psyche is one of those thousands of asteroids, objects in the universe that travel the interplanetary space. What sets it apart from other rocks of the kind is the (unproven) claim that it is a new kind of "Eldorado."
- Monday, July 8, 2019

Trashing Trash-Bags

Trashing Trash-BagsAccording to recent reports, "Ottawa, the center of political power in Canada, is going to "trash single use plastic bags "by 2021 or so. The article on CBC News further states "A full list of banned items isn't set in stone, but a government source told CBC News that the list also could include items like cotton swabs, drink stirrers, plates and balloon sticks. Fast-food containers and cups made of expanded polystyrene, which is similar to white Styrofoam, will also be banned."
- Saturday, June 15, 2019

Bromate and Bromide -- Fire and Brimstone?

Bromate and Bromide -- Fire and BrimstoneThe Herts County Council in Great Britain is having a problem with “bromate” and “bromide” ions in the groundwater there. They could pollute the local drinking water resource. As it turns out, this is nothing new there. In fact, the situation was first recognized two or more decades ago and remedial actions have been ongoing for about ten years now and are still continuing to this date. The bromate/bromide source was a chemical factory, in operation between 1955 and 1980 that manufactured or used “bromate” and “bromide” in their works.
- Monday, June 10, 2019

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