Casey Handmer

You can now enjoy a colored relief map render of this dataset streamed through Google Earth. Download the .kml file (drive.google.com/file/d/1bS1R9M…) and open it in your Google Earth Pro client. Enjoy!

@patrickc Anything to restrict supply!

I think this reflects our confused spiritual relationship with our own past. We feel a strong and intuitive affinity for what we used to build, while our contemporary frameworks consider such buildings misguided and "immoral". The mind says massing prohibitions and setbacks; the heart says beautiful masonry, higgeldy-piggeldy layouts, and Victorians. Rather than resolve the tension, we designate large fractions of our city ontologically confused, simultaneously protected and illegal; sanctified and condemned.

Now imagine those drones swarming your city, but they're not in Peace Mode.

This was fun to write

@erik_paulson @TerraformIndies Life is too short to settle for marginal advances!

@CJHandmer @TerraformIndies How much would you benefit from capturing CO2 from a richer stream like exhaust of a generator? Obviously not a perpetual motion machine but could you focus on electrolyzer and methane generation and come back to very diffuse atmos co2 capture later?

The article is correct. Improving stuff is ridiculously difficult. But it is worth it. All credit to the @TerraformIndies team for dogged persistence and consistent brilliance.

@EverestBrady @zanehengsperger @EdwardMehr We're in the business of adding as little cost to primordial parts as possible, so ... not soon.

@CJHandmer @zanehengsperger @EdwardMehr When are you going to upgrade?

@zanehengsperger @EdwardMehr is pretty good. Mine is old school.

@richie_erb @ashleevance @bborrell Just casually completing our solar array in about a week. Thanks!

@ashleevance @bborrell let's go!! this was a fun solar project to help build. @CJHandmer obviously gets the future of solar

May we present to you 5,000 words on Casey Handmer and Terraform Industries reported over several months. If you would like to read about a team trying to make fuel from water, air and sunlight while working inside of a castle, we have what you need right here corememory.com/p/the-magical-…

Incredible video on Starlink radar practical details. youtu.be/jbp3kdJZ1_A?si…

@elonmusk Only the ones that survived lol

Ancient cultures were extremely violent, not “peace-loving ecologists” at all!

@peterbsalisbury Heh I'm visible in this photo.

Anna Lapwood at Walt Disney Concert Hall Incredible

@mitch_7w @ashleevance Incredible deep dive on file pyramid configuration incoming!

@ashleevance @CJHandmer Hell yeah keen to read all about the 3D Martian terrain maps

Tomorrow we run a giant story on this guy. And you will want to read it.

@OliviaHelenS Awww!

@CJHandmer changed my life and many others' for the better

@beffjezos Hong Kong charter.

The Alamada airfield could be a neo-Shenzhen SEZ for SF Bay Area. Could be a 30% GDP growth impact on USA if truly deregulated.

@_sorrengailll It would appear their admissions policy does not discriminate against Asians

A very modern High School in Shenzhen China. Notice anything out of the ordinary？

@ThePrimalDino Mercury Atlas erasure!

Finally got around to adding Artemis II to my NASA rocket collage

Claude Code: Touch grass Handmer. Out of tokens for an hour.

@TeslabotOTA @Object_Zero_ When a mommy panel and a daddy panel love each other very much...

@Object_Zero_ @CJHandmer Where do the panels come from?

This 100MW data center in UAE is the largest solar powered datacenter in the world. There are currently 1,300 data centers in the world that are bigger than this one, but this one is the largest solar powered one. That’s 10 square kilometres of solar panels you can see. The datacenter itself is 0.02 square kilometres, so a solar powered datacenter is ~500x larger than a data center using any other form of power. A five hundred times larger site. UAE has some of the highest solar irradiance anywhere on Earth, it is an inhospitable desert. Averaging 9.7 hours of sunlight per day with average irradiance above 2,200 kWh/m^2. If you build this somewhere else, you need more solar panels because your irradiance will almost certainly be lower. Even if the world had an infinite supply of free solar panels, solar power will not be free. Anyone who has ever done major capital projects, who looks at where data centers need to be in the next 5 years and the next 10 years… we know it aint solar. Sorry. You struggle to even build a train track that’s 100 miles long and 10ft wide anywhere in the West, there is zero chance of build 100 square mile solar farms for GW compute. This is why people are talking about space compute. Deploying into space is one strategy to solve the constraints. But there are faster and more scalable strategies, that get you to mass deployment of multi GW data centers. There are strategies that also allow you to power the 10 billion robots and their newtonian actuators, that immediately follow the inference demand cycle. Step back and look at the full cycle of this industrial revolution… There will be billions of chips, but there will be trillions of actuators. This biggest part of this revolution is the embodiment cycle, and it’s big by a factor of 20 or 50x over the stuff that comes before it. There is no analogy in human history for the scale of this economy, of the demand it will place on energy and commodities. The humans own the Earth, and if you exist inside their legal system, they won’t let you turn the surface of their planet into glass. But they do want your chips and your actuators to serve their needs and desires. There is a way to do all of this, and so it will happen.

Needs gargoyles.