While I spend 99% of my time thinking about hardware, synthetic fuels, and the solar industrial revolution, the progress in AI has not gone unnoticed. I’m writing this post not to share any p…| Casey Handmer's blog
This post is a follow on from Powering the Mars Base. It’s an extended riff on the following thought experiment: What is the most electrical power you could extract from an integrated Starship-deli…| Casey Handmer's blog
Part of my series on common misconceptions in space journalism. Rigor is the underpinning of success when designing any kind of technological application. Throughout my career I have found myself o…| Casey Handmer's blog
Part of my series on common misconceptions in space journalism. Humans evolved a rare symbolic reasoning ability during our emergence over the last million or so years. As running apes, we lacked t…| Casey Handmer's blog
A short and spicy post. There remains, even in 2023, a substantial fraction of the “future of energy” hivemind who are still convinced that the solution to all our problems is to build …| Casey Handmer's blog