I started posting papers to Energy Central in 2016, only a few years after I retired from Siemens. I started posting papers about microgrids including energy storage and renewables used therein, since I was the Microgrid Product Manager for Siemens. At some point, the frequency of posts increased and the subjects diversified, and I decided to use categories to keep track of everything. My earliest categories included microgrids, renewables and mobility. Many early Mobility early posts were on EVs, which led me to a post on “Tesla Inc.” in 2020. I live about 20 miles from Tesla’s mothership factory in Fremont, California.
Then Elon did something strange – he started SpaceX. I followed him and wrote my first posts on his early Falcons (“Elon's Amazing Adventures”) in 2020. It wasn’t long thereafter that the Falcon 9 became the backbone transport of the private space industry (still is). Elon created more rockets, and landed on “Starship,” and thus this post.