Austin Vernon
Writes long engineering-and-economics essays on energy, manufacturing and defence.
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- Austin Vernon writes long essays on his blog about energy, industry, transport and defence, worked through with engineering and cost numbers: solar and storage, geothermal, nuclear regulation, drones, shipbuilding and Tesla's Cybercab.
- He describes himself as someone who loves engineering, software, economics, investing and the Toyota Production System.
- In August 2025 he wrote that he had spent two years working on a start-up to build very cheap energy storage for solar power.
- He is not the baseball player of the same name.
Key facts
- Blog
- austinvernon.site, essays on energy, engineering and economics1
- Interests (his words)
- Engineering, software, economics, investing and the Toyota Production System2
- Start-up
- Working on a start-up for ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV, for two years as of August 20251
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