Christian Keil
Bio
Host of First Principles | Chief of Staff @ AstranisAppears in 11 Episodes
#10: Sam D'Amico - How to Boil Water in 40 Seconds (and Revolutionize the Grid)
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#9: Justin Lopas - Introducing the Next-Gen Home Battery
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#8: Ben Nowack - Selling Sunlight to Solar Farms After Dark
Episode 8: Ben Nowack built a fusion reactor in high school. Now he’s building huge mirrors in space that reflect sunlight onto solar farms at night.======(00:00) - In...
#7: Nato Saichek - Shooting Satellites Into Orbit at Hypersonic Speeds
Nato decided against building a laser-powered rocket in favor of Longshot Space: a gun powered by pressurized air that can shoot payloads into orbit.======(00:00) - In...
#6: Danielle Fong - An Engine Powered By Light
======Episode 6: When heated, sodium emits energy via visible light at 2.1eV (or 589 nm wavelength). So, if you make an engine that heats up sodium, you can tune a sol...
#5: Garrett McCurrach - Underground Hyperlogistics Delivery Drones
Episode 5: Garrett wants to deliver any good in under ten minutes, for under a quarter, using drones that burrow underground.======(00:00) - Intro(00:50) - What Pipedr...
#4: Augustus Doricko - Weather-Modification Drones Are Coming Soon
======Episode 4: Augustus Doricko isn’t trying to play God with his weather-modification company, Rainmaker, but he does admit that quelling hurricanes or creating atm...
#3: Extropic - Why Thermodynamic Computing is the Future of AI (PUBLIC DEBUT)
Episode 3: Extropic is building a new kind of computer – not classical bits, nor quantum qubits, but a secret, more complex third thing. They call it a Thermodynamic C...
#2: Casey Handmer - Pulling Methane From Thin Air (Terraform Industries)
======Episode 2: Casey Handmer, the polymath founder and CEO of Terraform Industries, explains the first principles behind his idea to synthesize hydrocarbons (startin...