NASA Did Not Accept an Unlimited Budget for Sending Humans to Mars But Elon Musk Would

January 24, 2019 by Brian Wang

The New York Magazine describes how President Trump offered some people at NASA to imagine and propose an Apollo-style crash program to get humans to Mars. NASA described getting to humans to Mars in the 2030s. Trump asked if the first humans to Mars could be achieved by 2020 or 2024 with an unlimited budget? …

Profitably Fix Half of the Global Warming Problem and Save 2.4 Million Lives per Year

January 17, 2019 by Brian Wang

Fixing CO2 is a harder problem than fixing soot and air pollution. Carbon dioxide is a gas. It is harder to split the carbon dioxide out of a smokestack than it is to filter out soot and particulates. Carbon dioxide that is already in the atmosphere will stay there for decades or centuries but soot …