Casey Handmer: Terraform Industries and a carbon-neutral future - #57

[@Renvoxan]

Casey is the GOAT

[@michaelkogan9181]

Make death valley into a massive desalination, hydro generation and pumped hydro storage facility 🫡 Paired with massive solar array, that's terawatt hours worth of energy generation and storage capacity. Also solved water problems at the same time 🤘

[@225asap]

This was very inspiring to listen to. Mans is self made

[@nikitaw1982]

Link to the books mentioned could be links in the description.

[@michaelcorey9890]

Really enjoyed the interview. I do have my doubts as to solar, heat pumps etc up here in Alberta. We have such plentifup cheap natural gas and get temperatures that drop to -40c /-40f several times in the winter. Warmer climates I can see it; our road up here is going to be a long one if we go Green while maintaining our standard of living.

[@nikitaw1982]

9th comment after 4 months. How is this guy not got fans in the millions? Isnt climate change the end of life as we know it? PS someone like this should do tech to do kevin costners water world but living on abundance. The reason its like that makes me think climate change focus a scam to tax every human action.

[@presidentbarbicane]

This guy's ideas are very interesting, but he has almost no contact with reality. There's no way this will be profitable in a year (unless he has some other product besides methane that he hasn't talked about... Maybe selling the oxygen? doesn't sound very profitable). He's a long way from producing anything useful. It's basically a big science fair project. The fact that he has any investors at all makes me think there's a green technology bubble.

[@michaelcorey9890]

He sounded very rational until about 54:00

[@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