Matthew Allcock

Building the energy infrastructure for space

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Co-Founder, NEOWATT – power beaming for satellites

Space weather consultant, independent

Space Fellow, Foresight Institute

Space weather consultant, Starion (prev. RHEA) – ESA and UK Gov projects

Natural hazards research engineer, EDF Energy – protecting nuclear power stations from space weather

PhD in applied mathematics / solar physics, University of Sheffield

Space weather risk. Infrastructure resilience.
Space environment modelling. Policy advisory

Projects for the UK Government, ESA, and national space agencies

Open for consulting projects – get in touch

Consciousness is what matters. Lives with fewer and shallower valleys, more and higher peaks, approximately in that order
Deeply moved by unnecessary suffering. All of it is unnecessary
Flourishing is an imperative. The best feeling you've ever had – that should be the baseline for everyone. Technology can make this possible
10% of income to effective charities, since 2017
Proudly vegan for 10+ years
Techno-optimist, but we should pause AI – catastrophic risk to biological life, suffering risk to digital sentience
Space exploration might be bad actually. Space is for Earth
The Great Inward Turn – my answer to the Fermi paradox: sufficiently intelligent systems rationally choose to explore inward into experience rather than outward into space. Because it is easier to move bits than atoms. That's why we cannot find other civilisations