Casey Handmer said California high-speed rail is supposedly costing more than $100 billion.
“California high-speed rail is supposedly north of $100 billion now”
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Casey Handmer said the typical Liberty ship build time at Kaiser's yards was about 11 days, rather than the famous four days.
“The more typical duration on the way would be more like 11 days.”
According to Casey Handmer, when Henry Kaiser died his assets went to his second wife rather than his children or his son, who had been running the organization.
“when he died, all his assets flowed to his second wife and not to his children or his surviving son who'd been running the organization”
Casey Handmer said Henry Kaiser died in 1969 and two biographies of him appeared in the late 1980s, after which he was largely forgotten.
“he died in 1969, late 1980s, two biographies were published back to back, like six months apart, and then nothing”
Casey Handmer said Bank of Italy, later Bank of America, reopened the day after the San Francisco earthquake and lent capital to people rebuilding.
“Bank of Italy which was a bank based here in San Francisco was the bank that like opened its doors the day after the San Francisco earthquake and started handing out capital to people to rebuild”
Casey Handmer said the government's expected Hoover Dam cost was $38 million (about $1 billion today) over seven and a half years, and that Kaiser planned to bid that and finish in five and a half.
“the government thinks that the Hoover Dam should cost $38 million, which is about $1 billion in today's money to build, and that should take seven and a half years”
Casey Handmer said Terraform makes hydrogen by electrolysis and feeds it into a high-pressure, high-temperature reactor of a type pioneered in Germany around 1905.
“we can just electrolyze stuff at a couple hundred degrees Celsius and then feed that into a high pressure, high temperature reactor of the sort that were pioneered in Germany in like 1905.”
Casey Handmer said plants are about 100 times less efficient per unit of land than Terraform's synthetic process at turning sunlight into reduced-carbon fuel.
“their net throughput efficiency is about 100 times lower than than a synthetic process like the one we're using in terms of like area of land into reduced carbon fuel.”
Casey Handmer said solar panel cost falls about 40-something percent per doubling of production, and production is doubling roughly every two years.
“It's like 40-something percent per doubling of production, and currently production's doubling roughly every two years.”
Casey Handmer argued that solar trackers, the systems that move panels to follow the sun, should economically have been dropped by 2016.
“Economically speaking, we should have deleted trackers in 2016, right?”
Casey Handmer said solar panel prices could plausibly fall from about $0.08 a watt to $0.04 a watt.
“So we go from $0 .08 a watt down to $0 .04 a watt.”
Casey Handmer said selling methanol yields roughly six times the revenue per carbon atom handled compared with natural gas.
“It's roughly six times higher revenue per carbon atom handled.”
Casey Handmer said cement accounts for about 7% of global emissions and sells for about $40 a ton at the plant.
“cement is about 7 % of global emissions. The challenge with cement is that it's 40 bucks a ton, you know, at the plant.”
Casey Handmer said China imports about 12 million barrels of oil a day from the Middle East across sea lanes it does not control.
“China currently imports 12 million barrels a day from the Middle East across sea lanes they don't control and can't control”
Casey Handmer said the Virginia-class submarine, partly intended to police the Strait of Malacca, is due to be delivered to Australia in 2035.
“the Virginia-class nuclear submarine is being built in part to service the needs, allied needs to police the Strait of Malacca. That submarine is due to be delivered to Australia in 2035.”
Casey Handmer said China had deployed more solar in the previous three months than the United States ever has.
“China has deployed more solar in the last three months than the United States has ever deployed ever.”
Casey Handmer said China supported solar manufacturers with government-backed zero-interest loans, though he said he did not know the specifics.
“they basically offered government-backed zero-interest loans to manufacturers, for example.”
Casey Handmer said Soviet GDP growth at its fastest was slower than US growth at its slowest.
“if you look at GDP growth over that time, it's actually slower at its fastest point than the United States was at its slowest point”
Casey Handmer said SpaceX's Starlink terminal plant in Bastrop is in the United States and is almost entirely automated.
“if you look at the bastrop plant where styling terminals are made it's all in the united states it's 99 .99 percent automated”
Casey Handmer cited a statistic that Apple had spent $100 billion on manufacturing investment in China.
“I saw some stat the other day that Apple had spent $100 billion on manufacturing investment in China.”
Casey Handmer said SpaceX has roughly 95% of the world's launch market.
“spacex has like 95 market share for the entire world and then the second place getter is like china or something”
Casey Handmer said car seats save about 58 US children's lives a year while about 10,000 births are averted by families unable to afford a larger car.
“something like 58 children's lives are saved in the united states every year by statistically by by car seats and something like 10,000 births are averted by families who cannot afford to upgrade their cars”
Casey Handmer said the UK pension triple lock was set to rise 4.7% against inflation of a little over 2%.
“the triple lock in the uk is going to go up by 4 .7 % against a backdrop of inflation of 2 .something percent”
Casey Handmer said a California project under the Sacramento River Delta would cost about $20 billion and might recover around 100,000 acre-feet of water a year.
“they're talking about doing this this project under the Delta in Sacramento River Delta, you're going to spend $20 billion on it, and it's going to potentially recover on the order of 100 ,000 acre feet of water a year.”
Casey Handmer said he believes desalinated water could be produced for $99 per acre-foot.
“I believe that it should be possible to produce water, desalinated water for 99 bucks an acre foot, which would be transformational, right?”
Casey Handmer said the Salton Sea formed from an irrigation accident in the early 1900s and is about the size of San Francisco Bay.
“The Salton Sea was formed as a result of an irrigation accident in the early 1900s, and it's about the same size as the entire San Francisco Bay.”
Casey Handmer said the Salton Sea originally formed when the Colorado River burst its banks around 1905.
“It originally formed when the Colorado River burst its banks in 1905 or something like that.”
Casey Handmer said the Salton Sea holds about 3.5 million acre-feet of water and is too saline for fish, the last of which died about 15 years earlier.
“There's like 3 .5 million acre feet in there. It's too saline for fish to survive now, yes. About 15 years ago, the last fish died.”
Casey Handmer said the US Bureau of Reclamation had not built a major dam in 50 years.
“Bureau of Reclamation hasn't built a major dam in 50 years, so they've pretty much forgotten how at this point, I think.”
Casey Handmer said Terraform Industries draws its org chart upside down because problems flow downhill.
“our org chart is drawn upside down because ultimately that's the way the problems flow.”