AA. About the author

2015 U.S. Patent #8823197, “A Diagonal Solar Chimney”

2013 U.S. Patent #8408199, “Solar Reflector, Collecting Window and Heat Storage.”

I have allowed all of my patents and all of my patent applications to lapse into the public domain. I'm a public interest inventor.

I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1976. I have a Masters in Political Science from the University of Rhode Island, 1984. I have a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Rhode Island, 1994.

I have taught for URI/Providence and for Bristol Community College. I have been employed part-time by the Pawtucket School Department since 2019.

People in almost any group have had at least one profound spiritual experience, and others haven't had any such thing and they don't expect to ever have one. If you're in one of these categories, please be understanding of people in the other category. I'm in the first category. In November of 1981 I could see a barren, hot world, and a fire was coming out of an evil hole in the ground. I was told to go to college. I did. I took two years to get a Masters Degree in Political Science, because that's how we could stop this evil. Then after I graduated I found a job working as a research programmer for a climatologist. Then another year later my new boss started lecturing on this brand new thing that other climatologists had discovered, global warming.

I can recommend Quaker (Religious Society of Friends) silent meditation in groups. In my experience, the practice increases one's chances of having either wonderful spiritual experiences or sometimes bad dreams, which can lead you on in relation to the climate crisis. Some Quakers don't get it but many do.

Yours,

Paul Klinkman