What Casey Handmer thinks about America
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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13 dated positions, 2021 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Casey Handmer has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe skinny: This relatively small alpine lake is about 117 m deep!
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Their wordsThat makes it the 25th deepest natural lake in North America, and by far the deepest lake on Earth for its size.
- 11 months earlier
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Our readingA Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.
Their wordsI am far from certain that NASA can regain anything like the vigor necessary to respond decisively to the Chinese threat, but I am determined that the free people of Earth not live under a Red Moon
↗NASA’s Orion Space Capsule Is Flaming Garbagecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 1st of 4 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsIt absolutely asymmetrically helps China. We're not currently working with China. They don't plan to, but like the physics is very obvious, you know, and synthetic fuels have been around for 100 years.
↗China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmeryoutube.com 3rd of 24 in this recording
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Their wordsAnd I think the United States could probably do that in 2 years or less if you started today. Like it's currently 11:00, so like we're going to start cutting checks by noon.
↗China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmeryoutube.com 5th of 24 in this recording
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Their wordsIn terms of things that are causing us to lose to China, tariffs are neither here nor there because, as we've discussed, we're not sensitive to cost on power. But the environmental regulations that are actively preventing us from deploying renewable energy in the United States, like this is the reason Texas is winning. Texas is out deploying California 10 to1.
↗China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmeryoutube.com 16th of 24 in this recording
- 10 months earlier
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Their wordsFour years on, the program has consumed another $20b with nothing to show for it.
↗SLS is still a national disgracecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 1st of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsSLS, like JWST before it, eats everything in its path, meanwhile NASA hasn’t sent a single mission to Venus since 1989.
↗SLS is still a national disgracecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 3rd of 5 in this piece
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Our reading · no longer heldNASA can still be reorganised into an agency that exploits cheap heavy lift, and the next administrator will decide whether it is.
No longer holdsAt the time I was optimistic, now I am not.
SaidThis obviously has not occurred.
↗SLS is still a national disgracecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 4th of 5 in this piece
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Our readingWithout SpaceX, neither the United States nor Europe would have adequate access to space of its own.
Their wordsBut for SpaceX, both the US and Europe would lack adequate strategic access to space.
↗SLS is still a national disgracecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 5th of 5 in this piece
- 11 months earlier
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Our readingThe binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.
Their wordsYet solar development is hopelessly snarled by dozens of different development regulations which begin with the assumption that it will permanently and severely harm the environment unless proven otherwise, at exhaustive length.
↗Permitting Reform Or Deathcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Our readingDelay in permitting clean energy kills more Americans every year than the September 11 attacks did.
Their wordsThe terrorist attacks on 9/11 killed 2996 people in a day of singular horror. Our ongoing indifference to regulatory inefficiency, considering only the area of green energy development, kills more people every year – more than 10 people per day, and that’s only within the US.
↗Permitting Reform Or Deathcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
- 3 years earlier
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Their wordsThe 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.