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I was born in South Africa in 1958. I came to the USA with my wife and three daughters in 2003. We became US citizens in 2009 and 2010. My wife Susan is a Special Education English Teacher. She also has a bachelor's degree in Micro anatomy and biochemistry. I have two daughters at university and one at school. I am very lucky to be surrounded by such talented women. They all love creative writing, poetry and cats.
I am a vegetarian and enjoy growing trees, vegetables and plants from seed.
My interests lie in astronomy, meteorology, geology and biology.
In astronomy I am interested in dimensions, the speed of electromagnetic radiation in different density conditions, redshift, magnetism associated with rings of planets and stars, black holes and contracting galaxies and the expansion and contraction of the universe.
In September 2010 I presented three new concepts on our Earth, our Sun and the planets and stars that surround us. The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) published my ideas on October4, 2010 on Planetary-Spin heat relationships, Jupiter-Saturn-Solar Tidal-Sunspot coupling and Planetary-Solar alternating magnetic fields. The paper can be found at the AIPG website at: http://www.aipg.org/Meetings/mtg_proceedings/2010annmtg/Landau,%20Chris.pdf
In meteorology, my interests lie in long-range hourly weather timing predictions through tidal forces for both convectional and cyclonic rainfall.
In geology, my interests are in the inorganic origin of oil, gas and coal, under reducing conditions, through hydrogen sulfide and water acting on carbon dioxide and calcareous formations. My chemical and thermodynamic equations to prove how this occurred have been published.
As a geologist, I delivered two peer reviewed presentations to prove the theory, one to the Association of Engineering and Environmental Geologists in 2008 (AEG). See http://www.aegweb.org/files/public/abstracts.pdf, page 17.
The other was to The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) in October 2009. See http://www.aipg.org/Meetings/2009%20Annual%20Meeting/2009proceedings.pdf, page 94.
These publications include methods of carbon capture that help generate new energy and make carbon dioxide a reusable resource.
My other interests are in large-scale earthquake fault lines and the interaction between continental drift and past big meteorite impacts and the unrecognized planetary impact sites.
I enjoy growing my own vegetable and fruit crops and hope to be self-sufficient one day.
I hope that the world will one day all be vegetarians. I believe we can only truly respect our selves and the other animals if we do not see them as a food source. No human being likes the thought of being eaten by animals. Let us all stop raising domestic animals for food.
I would like to see the oil, gas and coal being recycled daily, so no carbon dioxide or other pollutants are released into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide can be reduced back to methane under reducing conditions.
Solar power should be stepped up in a huge way to create clean renewable energy for the world. Desalination of seawater by solar power is the long-term solution to our water needs and our food production. Education to limit global population growth is vital to have sustainable resources for the world and its animals. I hope one day to see the end of war as a profitable business.
I hope to provide solutions in a practical and academic fashion. I look forward to mutually beneficial relationships that exploit neither party.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Sheep (1 comments)
Life is not for sheep.
Friday, October 14, 2011 Are you a blue sheep or a red sheep? (3 comments)
The article descibes the folly of entreching oneself in meaningless camps, not of your own choosing, that are no longer relevant to one's daily life and purpose.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 ASTEROID VESTA SHOWS GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF VOLCANISM (6 comments)
Asteroid Vesta shows clear evidence through its "planetary dikes" that a hot internal body exists, that drives vocanism today.Radioactive decay is not the source. I believe spin and magnetism are. This has huge implications for terraforming Mars and Venus.
Monday, August 2, 2010 Magnitude 3.0 Earthquake hits Gulf of Mexico New Orleans Region by Geologist Chris Landau (18 comments)
A magnitude 3.0 Earthquake has occurred yesterday, almost at midnight, 80 miles NW of New Orleans and 35 miles) NNE of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sunday, August 01, 2010 at 11:34:28 PM with an epicenter located at 30.873-N, 90.874-W
Sunday, July 25, 2010 Rigel Well Leaking Near BP-Transocean-Halliburton Gusher by Chris Landau (geologist) (3 comments)
By getting as many closed or partly closed wells into immediate production, it will save the time of having to drill new relief wells.
This Rigel Well will help reduce the back pressure and save the surrounding formations from disintegrating further. Search the area for other non-producing wells that have been plugged and get them into production.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Release the e-logs and mudlogs Mineral Management Service (10 comments)
Mark Hafle, the BP drilling engineer who wrote plans for well casings and cement seals on the Deepwater Horizon's well, testified that "the well had lost thousands of barrels of mud at the bottom." The well had balooned and blown out.
Monday, June 21, 2010 BP'S Chemical Warfare Gases and Carcinogen Soup. (5 comments)
Broken Promises (BP) well spews the lethal and carcinogenic gases of hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and benzene.
Friday, June 18, 2010 Hold your breath. Your life may depend on it, by Chris Landau (18 comments)
Benzene and hydrogen sulfide are the two killer gases that we now have to watch out for in the Gulf of Mexico.
Hold your breath. Your life may depend on it, by Chris Landau
Thursday, June 17, 2010 Boycott the Oil Companies by Geologist Chris Landau (12 comments)
I do not like them. Their product stinks. It is full of carcinogens and makes our people, animals and the world sick.
Thursday, June 17, 2010 Committing Suicide, the American Way by Chris Landau (13 comments)
I call on all you woman and men of conscience. Band together. We only have each other.
Let us drill the new wells required to relieve the pressure. This disaster has been a blot on our landscape and conscience for too long. It is time to end it.
Monday, June 14, 2010 President Obama would you like your oil on top of your tea or dissolved into it? (19 comments)
President Obama would you like your oil on top of your tea or dissolved into it?
If we put it on top of your tea, it will float there, you can skim it off and if you are desperate, you can drink that tea.
Otherwise we can add some dishwashing detergent or soap (CoreExit) to the oil floating on your tea. We can stir it right in. You might say that it is now out of sight and what we do not see will not harm us.
Friday, June 11, 2010 B.P. SHOW US THE MUDLOGS! By geologist, Chris Landau (20 comments)
Senator Bill Nelson of Florida is telling us that the oil is gushing up around the casing. The casing has failed. There are multiple layers of oil and gas, probably 50 in this well. the casing and cement has been blown out. Your cap is a failure that can not be closed. The more you close it, the more the oil and gas will come through the sea floor. You will never be able to shut this gushing well down.
Monday, June 7, 2010 Atomic Bomb proposal for Gulf of Mexico blow out well a very bad idea for many reasons, by Geologist Chris Landau (41 comments)
How many oil and gas horizons were there in this well? There was certainly more than one. The mudlog will list the gas horizons and oil horizons. Were there 10, 30 or 50? The picture the press is drawing of the oil zone is only good for elementary school textbooks. Which of these many horizons are we trying to seal? Are the proposed directional wells above some oil and gas horizons and below others?
Saturday, May 29, 2010 How to Solve and Understand the Oil Blowout in The Gulf Of Mexico (9 comments)
Drill four relief wells immediately to relieve the background oil & gas pressure to the same depth as the existing well.
Space these new wells 1500 feet in all directions away from this blowout well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Directional wells into the existing well will be the same as pumping drilling mud into a blown out formation. The drilling mud and back pressure is lost & this creates a possible new blowout.
Thursday, May 27, 2010 Bring on the sun. (1 comments)
Solar is the way. Stand together. Our future is bright. We have found the way. Let us bridge the gulf.
Friday, May 21, 2010 Call to publish the geological mudlogs and e-logs for the Transocean-BP-Haliburton oil blowout disaster (1 comments)
Appeal to President Obama and vice president Joe Biden to publish the geological mudlogs and the e-logs that were done for this BP-Transocean-Halliburton blowout well so we can all see how many horizons or layers in this well are producing this immense amount of oil and gas.
Thursday, May 6, 2010 Santa Barbara does not want a BP-type Gulf of Mexico oil gusher blowout here. (1 comments)
Dear Arnold Schwarzenegger. We do not want a BP-type Gulf of Mexico oil gusher blowout here. Complete the job. Stop oil pumping from offshore Santa Barbara Los Angeles drill rigs. Why take the risk? By Chris Landau(geologist)
Shut the offshore oil wells down off the Santa Barbara Coast.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 Dear Mr. Tony Haywood (From one geologist, Chris Landau to another) (1 comments)
Mr. Tony Haywood, you are a lucky man. You may not think so now, but today the 1st of May, 2010, you will begin to lead the world into a new green future. The other oil companies will follow, but you will make the hard changes that the world craves, but won't act on.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 Climate Change in The Gulf of Mexico from the oil slick; Oil Slick Could Cause Drought across the Southern USA. (13 comments)
The weather is already changing. Clouds are not forming as readily above the oil slick.
Oil Slick Could Cause Drought across the Southern USA.
The oil slick from the sunken Transocean owned Deep Water Horizon Rig and BP well is sealing the Gulf of Mexico's sea water and preventing evaporation and clouds from forming.
Sunday, May 2, 2010 Dear Goldman Sachs, BP, Halliburton and Transocean (3 comments)
Transocean, the owner of the rig and Halliburton responsible for cementing the casing, on this well, stock price seems to be holding up fairly well. Do you think that BP or Goldman Sachs should hire their public relations team to help keep their stock price up or is it more profitable to short it as it falls and then buy it back at a cheaper price? My concern is that the oil companies might be seen to be in a dirty business.
Saturday, May 1, 2010 Dear Major General Smedley D. Butler.Letter to a dead man. May your ideas never die. (2 comments)
I am hoping to avert another ecological crisis on the west coast. As Vandenberg will also be hit by the natural disaster of the earthquake and tsunami, I was hoping that they might want to use their influence to stop the oil and gas drilling and pumping of oil and to shut the oil wells down permanently. I also wrote an article which began, "Dear Goldman Sachs and BP"" These are some of the GREY MEN making the huge profits. Win
Friday, April 30, 2010 Do not burn the oil on the sea in the Gulf of Mexico. Do not drill other wells into the existing B P well. (3 comments)
Do not burn the oil on the sea. Do not drill other directional wells into the existing BP well in the Gulf of Mexico.
These actions will burn people, boats and property. Wind gusts will blow the flames out of control. The heat from the flames will create their own winds. This is just making a bad situation worse.
Friday, April 30, 2010 Dear Goldman Sachs, BP, Halliburton and Transocean (1 comments)
Transocean, the owner of the rig and Halliburton responsible for cementing the casing, on this well, stock price seems to be holding up fairly well. Do you think that BP or Goldman Sachs should hire their public relations team to help keep their stock price up or is it more profitable to short it as it falls and then buy it back at a cheaper price? My concern is that the oil companies might be seen to be in a dirty business.
Friday, April 23, 2010 Gulf Rig blowout parallels Santa Barbara oil blowout of 1969 (1 comments)
Probable Cause and Scenario that led to the oil disaster in The Gulf of Mexico, when Offshore Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig, owned by Trans Ocean Ltd., and contracted to BP, exploded burnt and sank. Do not let this happen in Santa Barbara. One oil disaster there was big enough. Stop the drilling for oil into the 3000 mile Santa Barbara Fault Zone. By geologist Chris Landau.
Sad Day for Earth Day, today April 22, 2010 on The Gulf
Saturday, April 10, 2010 Do not drill more wells into the 3000 mile Santa Barbara Fault Line (2 comments)
Do not drill more wells into the 3000 mile Santa Barbara Fault Line. It will be like drilling into a volcano.
Removing the oil from the Santa Barbara coastline will trigger larger earthquakes and tsunamis.
