What Casey Handmer thinks about government

@casey-handmer · 78 positions · 2 changes of mind · On ppll ↗

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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3 dated positions, 2023 to 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Casey Handmer has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 2 Oct 2024

   Our readingNASA's Space Launch System has consumed more than a hundred billion dollars and delivered almost nothing.

   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

3. 2 Oct 2024

   Our readingAn organisation that compromises its technical integrity on its flagship programme loses the ability to keep it anywhere else.

   Their wordsThis is symptomatic of an agency who, compromising their technical integrity on their flagship program, subsequently lost the ability to maintain technical integrity anywhere else.

   ↗SLS is still a national disgracecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 2nd of 5 in this piece

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5. 16 Aug 2023

   Our readingYou cannot make people adopt more expensive clean energy, because higher fuel prices are political suicide under any government.

   energy

   Their wordsit is quite obviously impossible to enforce universal adoption of more expensive carbon-free energy through, eg, mandatory carbon offsets, as higher gas prices are political suicide regardless of system of government.

   ↗How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/kgcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 1st of 3 in this piece