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The Future of Humanitys Energy No One Knows About | Terraform
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While filming Episode 36 featuring Terraform Industries (youtu.be/NngCHTImH1g), I asked Founder Casey Handmer who we should feature next. He had one answer: Make Sunsets. Casey, a PhD and someone who thinks about this far more than I do, wrote a great blog post about geo-engineering and Make Sunsets: caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/06/06/we-should-not-let-the-earth-overheat
It's important to note that what Make Sunsets is doing is highly controversial, but in my opinion (Jason Carman here) their actions don't seem to cause too much harm. I dug into this paper quite a bit before filming, as well as Casey's above blog post: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2009jd011918
A study by Columbia does indicate that SO2 could be worse for the ozone layer, but I would remind everyone that the quantities Make Sunsets are launching are minimal compared to volcano eruptions: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-pw62-mc98
You can also read more about stratospheric aerosol injection on Make Sunsets website (they also have been covered by other reputable news sources for your own research!): makesunsets.com/pages/what
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Additional Videos:
“A Hypersonic Shift: Exploring Cheaper, Safer Space Travel with Longshot Space”
youtu.be/qAUZpskowIc?si=mEj3vaRZY0a7o6Dj
“Hypersonic Space Launch… Without Rockets | Nato Saichek, Longshot Space”
youtu.be/2VESX6mh9EE?si=GCaRBRVZBWGPwQxX
Additional Articles:
“How Much Does It Cost to Launch a Rocket” spaceimpulse.com/2023/08/16/how-much-does-it-cost-to-launch-a-rocket
“Here’s How Much It Would Really Cost to Build a Moon Colony”
finance.yahoo.com/news/much-really-cost-build-moon-184949330.html
“SpaceX raises prices for rocket launches and Starlink satellite internet as inflation hits raw materials”
cnbc.com/2022/03/23/spacex-raises-prices-for-launches-and-starlink-due-to-inflation.html
“SpaceX and the Market for Launch”
longshotspace.com/post/spacex-and-the-market-for-launch
“How Much Does It Cost To Launch a Falcon 9 [and Other Rockets]?”
syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-much-does-it-cost-to-launch-a-falcon-9-and-other-rockets?amp
“Longshot Space closes over $5M in new funding to build space gun in the desert”
techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/longshot-space-closes-over-5m-in-new-funding-to-build-space-gun-in-the-desert/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE-Ypnrlg7PwvVTXpfJASCB39T6-ZtXIxuOe8Z_Izg_RcjC47D6plyFk1-LVLuVRXFeduSA5OzfbEwAl0OLM9fqq-DWP1f0BfoiOwiMj6He-Qj4Vsl4A6GVjHFKQ1gaF_fX1MDz2L7fMoCAFUdlH97_HBTgEwrEDQhefFCR3pF_Q
“Tonopah to be home to experimental hypersonic testing facility”
pvtimes.com/tonopah/tonopah-to-be-home-to-experimental-hypersonic-testing-facility-130376/amp
“Longshot targets $10/kg launch costs with Nazi uber-cannon on steroids”
newatlas.com/space/longshot-kinetic-launch
“Pneumatic cannon will send cargo into space at a speed of 30 M”
universemagazine.com/en/pneumatic-cannon-will-send-cargo-into-space-at-a-speed-of-30-m
“STARTUP WORKING ON SUPER-LONG TUBE THAT SHOOTS STUFF INTO ORBIT AT MACH 30”
futurism.com/the-byte/startup-tube-shoots-orbit
“How Will SpaceX Bring the Cost to Space Down to $10 per Kilogram from Over $1000 per Kilogram?”
nextbigfuture.com/2024/01/how-will-spacex-bring-the-cost-to-space-down-to-10-per-kilogram-from-over-1000-per-kilogram.html
“T-minus 6 Seconds: Starship (and Humanity’s) Next Major Step Into Space”
georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2023/04/20/t-minus-6-seconds-starship-and-humanitys-next-major-step-into-space/amp
“The New Era of Heavy Launch”
thespacereview.com/article/4626/1
“The Cost of Space Flight Before and After SpaceX”
visualcapitalist.com/the-cost-of-space-flight/#google_vignette
“How much does space travel cost?”
nbcnews.com/mach/science/how-much-does-space-travel-cost-ncna919011
“To cheaply go: How falling launch costs fueled a thriving economy in orbit”
nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna23488
“CubeSat Launch Costs”
satcatalog.com/insights/cubesat-launch-costs
“Moore’s Law Meet Musk’s Law: The Underappreciated Story of SpaceX and the Stunning Decline in Launch Costs”
aei.org/articles/moores-law-meet-musks-law-the-underappreciated-story-of-spacex-and-the-stunning-decline-in-launch-costs
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Additional videos
“The Insane Engineering of The Concorde”
youtu.be/hnrpXxbVhME?si=qym1TQr1a8Z1EtiO
“How Boom Supersonic is Building The Future of Travel”
youtu.be/4pS98OcWklY?si=e55eeh-h3uN-6HPD
“Boom Supersonic Works on Its Own Engine, Shows the Overture Airliner’s Flight Deck-AIN”
youtu.be/0lLEukXb26c?si=yXj4ObHDLB7BEhpq
“Boom Supersonic Completes First Flight With XB-1 Demonstrator”
youtu.be/V_TNTk7sYJU?si=m_RpbJRqpIUi3keY
“So You Want to Be an AEROSPACE ENGINEER | Inside Aerospace Engineering”
youtu.be/uTreDAUe7w4?si=NXqzFTP539G36cKW
“Aerospace Engineer Answers Airplane Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED”
youtu.be/HzdlSKlNxkw?si=7hyfe1wq0_3BuKga
Additional Articles
“The Concorde made its final flight over 20 years ago and supersonic air travel has yet to return. Here's a look back at its incredible history.” businessinsider.com/concorde-supersonic-jet-history-2018-10
“Why the Concorde Was Discontinued and Why It Won’t Be Coming Back
blog.museumofflight.org/why-the-concorde-was-discontinued-and-why-it-wont-be-coming-back
“"A Guide to the History and Current Trends of Supersonic Flight Air Travel'
https://ig.space/commslink/a-guide-to-the-history-and-current-trends-of-supersonic-flight-air-travel
“How Do Jet Engines Work?”
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/ww2/projects/jet-airplanes/how.html -
“How Does a Turbofan Engine Work?”
boldmethod.com/learn-to-fly/aircraft-systems/how-does-a-jet-engine-turbofan-system-work-the-basic-steps
“How Things Work: Supersonic Inlets”
smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/how-things-work-supersonic-inlets-35428453 -
“Introduction to Aerospace Engineering and Design"
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/16-00-introduction-to-aerospace-engineering-and-design-spring-2003/
“Forget the Concorde: Why Boom Supersonic believes its NC flight dreams will be different”
newsobserver.com/news/business/article289420300.html
“History Takes Flight in Mojave”
boomsupersonic.com/flyby/history-takes-flight-in-mojave-xb1-boom
“Curious About Boom Supersonic? Here Are Five Things to Know”
flyingmag.com/curious-about-boom-supersonic-here-are-five-things-to-know
“Boom Takes 76 Orders of Its Supersonic Jet”
cntraveler.com/story/boom-takes-76-orders-of-its-supersonic-jet?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADCvt48iK8wkc05pHS_0SUFi7HlqT&gclid=Cj0KCQjwurS3BhCGARIsADdUH513O3KIf_TzCtSROPPg45_5pdp-JcBj7Up-N12q4Wf0q1FE5GSTVt0aAsDOEALw_wcB
“Flight engineer reveals what it was really like to operate supersonic jet Concorde”
cnn.com/travel/flight-engineers-concorde-warren-hazelby/index.html
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10:27 Being an early employee at a startup!
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46:00 Unlocking waterways
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0:00 Intro
1:27 1X Overview
2:12 Eric's Origin
5:15 Why humanoids?
11:30 Supercomputers & deep learning
12:45 World models
14:21 Neuromorphic computing
14:40 Immortality
20:15 Robotics at Google
21:35 Skepticism of humanoids
27: 00 Joining 1X
31:20 Benefits of LLMs
33:50 Training models
35:30 Tele-op to autonomous
43:30 Data quality vs. quantity
47:00 How to train your robot
50:50 Data sponge
53:30 The 1X team
54:45 Safety
57:45 A lab in the cloud
59:26 Bio advancements
1:03:54 How does your brain work
1:06:14 Conway’s law
1:08:45 Eric’s favorite sci-fi
1:10:50 Life philosophy