Casey Handmer
Physicist, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and founder of Terraform Industries, which is building plant to make synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. Writes about energy, space and manufacturing at caseyhandmer.wordpress.com.
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· held 6 years
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Their words thenFurthermore, I believe it’s very unlikely that space-based manufacturing or mining could be lucrative enough to fund the venture.
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsToday, exploding demand for power-intensive AI applications provides enough of an upside to justify producing components in space, providing the economic engine necessary to justify and fund the trillions of dollars necessary to build and sustain space factories.
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· held 2 years
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Their words thenwe will see batteries aggressively displace transmission as the most cost-effective way to ensure continuity of electricity supply, leading to an eventual pruning of the grid and drastic reduction in the average distance that power travels between production and consumption, even as the average time that power is stored increases.
Believes nowsaid
Their wordsDo we need to drastically expand the grid in order to metabolize renewables? No.
- 14 months earlier
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· held 4 years
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Their words thenThe required organizational transition is equivalent in scope and difficulty to the Apollo program, and will be made or broken during the tenure of the next NASA administrator.
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsThis obviously has not occurred.