Casey Handmer
Founder and CEO of Terraform Industries, which makes natural gas from sunlight and air; formerly at NASA JPL.
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- Casey Handmer is the founder and CEO of Terraform Industries, a company scaling up synthetic natural gas made with solar power and carbon from the air.
- He did a PhD at Caltech on gravitational waves and black holes, then worked on Hyperloop and at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- On his blog he writes long essays on energy, space and technology.
Key facts
- Terraform Industries
- Founder and CEO1
- What Terraform makes
- Natural gas from sunlight and air; it also reports producing methanol2
- Terraform, mid-2026
- 1.8 MW of solar deployed at its Muroc desert test site; seed investments of $38 million at a $150 million valuation2
- PhD
- Caltech, on gravitational waves and black holes1
- Before Terraform
- Worked on Hyperloop, then at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory1
- Blog
- Space, travel, technology, 3D printing, energy and writing3
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