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Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea Oct 28, 2025 · 20 mentions

• ▶ 0:56 John Collison Casey Hanmer is the founder of Terraform Industries, which is developing a machine that makes synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air.
• ▶ 8:50 John Collison Maybe for the listeners who are not familiar, summarize what Terraform is building.
• ▶ 17:10 John Collison And you're building Terraform as one kind of bet on this, but you think just more broadly speaking, people should fully update their worldviews that solar is going to beat out everything.
• ▶ 21:52 John Collison Why aren't you working on, why does Terraform not produce really cheap solar panels if you think everyone's doing it wrong?
• ▶ 24:34 Casey Handmer So, so again, like, this is somewhat subtle point, but, but Terraform's job is to take, you know, sunlight, which is intermittent, but it's free, um, and in the form of solar panels, make electricity that's intermittent, and then do a… 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 30:07 John Collison But, but, um, and so the, the way, uh, the, that China reduced its oil dependence is via electrification or via Terraform style synthetic fuels? 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 33:41 Casey Handmer When indeed Terraform is right across the road from Skunk Works, which was itself obviously government, largely government funded.
• ▶ 55:41 Casey Handmer Yeah, so Terraform desalination is the, is the project. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:05:04 John Collison Is currently Terraform sells commodities, be they nitrogas or methanol or things like that, whereas someone who wants water in a location, 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:08:21 John Collison What have you learned about leadership running Terraform? 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:15:49 Casey Handmer I'm kind of sad, actually, that at Terraform, it's been four years, and there's only one other company that has, um, that has come in, which, of course.