Physics Solves Problems - Casey Handmer PhD

Casey has had a pretty varied career. From attending the ISS in 2003 as a bright-eyed school student, through a physics degrees and a PhD in photonics at the Uni of Sydney, to a postdoc at Caltech in general relativity, work as a problem-solver with Hyperloop, and two stints with NASA and JPL ... he's done a lot with his scientific training. In this first talk he lays out his trajectory, hinting at the next Big Problem to be covered in his second talk - solving our reliance on fossil fuels.
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Casey Handmer, founder of Terraform Industries (and alumnus of ISS2003!), speaking to students at the 43rd Professor Harry Messel International Science School, ISS2023: solve for x - The University of Sydney, Australia, July 2023.
Casey's second lecture: • Completing the Industr...
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[@musicman53]

This is a brilliant lecture !!

[@danielmacdougall2697]

except this guy has a dubious employment history - hyperloop LOL - see thunderf00t - hyperloop busted - casey features as an elon stan - quite hilarious imho

[@ldm3027]

this is the dumbest scheme imaginable - the conversion efficiency from solar PV to methane (not natural gas) is ~ 25% and that is before the methane is burnt. so the overall process efficiency is just Terrable. It relies on subsidy that will not scale with the tech, which is a fatal flaw. overall a waste of money and effort

[@johntobiayorinde9632]

Why worry about the efficiency of conversion from an unlimited resource?