Engineering

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

I was just reading about it this past week - The Economist also published a very bullish series of articles on the exponential growth in solar power generation and how cheap and abundant energy will transform the world.

If we can get energy costs to be negligible, and with no meaningful externalities like we have with GHG, we’ll finally be nearer to a Kardashev type 1 civilization 

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/06/20/the-exponential-growth-of-solar-power-will-change-the-world

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/10/11/radical-energy-abundance/

This is a great article as well on recent progress on solar costs

"Displace oil and gas", "unlimited gains in energy production"... Fracking as the best LCOE... The more I read the article, the more sceptical I get.

No energy source has ever displaced any other (and electricity is not primary). Unlimited energy is a pipe dream, and confusing rhetoric. Fracking has environmental and unknown consequences---brute force that reminds 2007 critiques from Juan Enriquez.

Scientist and engineer interested in Life.

Work on (GOF)AI, Agriculture, Biology, Energy, Robotics, Space---all topics climate-aware.

No energy source has ever displaced any other (and electricity is not primary). Unlimited energy is a pipe dream, and confusing rhetoric. Fracking has environmental and unknown consequences---brute force that reminds 2007 critiques from Juan Enriquez. https://www.ted.com/speakers/juan_enriquez

Still need to get Casey on Warpcast. Just cracked on the article in this thread, but next reading on the Mars Trilogy is like "more please".

I wish so much people like Casey are right, especially on energy displacement :'(