What Casey Handmer thinks about optimism
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 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Casey Handmer has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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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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Their wordsA number of commentators have consistently predicted that solar cost improvements will level out “this year” since about 1990, and yet if anything deployment, cost decline, and the learning rate have only improved.
↗Radical Energy Abundancecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 2nd of 7 in this piece