What Casey Handmer thinks about infrastructure

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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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2 dated positions, 2023 to 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Casey Handmer has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 15 Aug 2025

   Our readingBuilding a lot of high-speed rail is not a sign that a country is good at building, it is a sign that it is bad at allocating capital.

   Their wordsI would never like hold up a flag saying I'm really good at building highspeed trains. Like that is just a sign that you're really bad at capital allocation.

   ↗China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmeryoutube.com 1st of 24 in this recording

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3. 10 Nov 2023

   Our readingEnvironmental permitting now causes more environmental harm than it prevents, because what it delays is the clean thing replacing the dirty one.

   permitting

   Their wordsThe primary driver of increased impact, longer time scales before displacement, and catastrophically high levels of avoidable pollution is environmental protection regulations.

   ↗Permitting Reform Or Deathcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 2nd of 4 in this piece