MacroInvent

02/08/2026

Mars Desert Research Station crew 329. I’m returning after 12 years as commander of a 1 week crew with lots of station upgrades and field engineering research.
This is us meeting at the hotel in town. The cat belongs to the hotel (or vice versa) and she is named Luna.

07/05/2025

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/07/05/volunteers-experience-life-on-mars-in-the-utah-desert.html

Our EVA LInk project has been mentioned on CNBC News!
This is a tracking and data relay system for simulated astronauts in the desert that logs where they are and sends it back to the main outpost. It works over a far greater distance than voice radios, so it's a key safety feature. I came up with the idea with the Mars Society team based on a mishap I had where I nearly got heatstroke WAY out of radio range of the hab. Systems like this can let any crew with line of sight on mountaintop relay send and SOS that includes their exact position. It can also be used to show where samples are taken when simulating research on Mars.

Humanity is far from colonizing Mars, but that’s not stopping a group of space enthusiasts from practicing anyway. CNBC shadowed crew 315 on the last day of their analog mission at the Mars Desert Research Station near Hanksville, Utah. The crew showed us their habitat and took us along for an ext...

07/13/2022

My interview with The Space Show is online if you want to listen. They were nice enough to summarize and add notes with links to my work. Great experience!

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06/11/2022

First, the bad news. WordPress and the third-party editing software are currently in grave disagreement again. The web site has again been stripped of older content and is paired down due to some pages being inaccessible to both the viewer and editors. Fortunately, all the "good stuff" (e-book and video links with supporting material) are still visible.

The portfolio has been updated to include the slides from the ISDC conference. Speaking of which, the conference went very well. I've been asked to teach a class online for space settlement, and I'm due to be interviewed for The Space Show in the coming months.
In other positive news, I've decided the next book project.

02/13/2022

Here is my web page for Academia.edu with the papers I've either written or assisted in creating.
https://knebergall.academia.edu/research

10/29/2021

https://youtu.be/moFuPLzvQh8
Here is the second talk for this year. The solar sail concept is interesting in itself, but it's more of a conduit for getting the technology revolution concept explained. I'm planning a book on that once I get a few other things worked out.
Note to self - scripting may sound a bit more artificial than this work-in-progress tone, but is much easier on the ears. I apologize.
Your patience will be rewarded with a very clear idea of how technology revolutions work, and how to build your own.

Track code: TD-3Abstract:Solar Sails are at the same stage of engineering development as electric motors were in the 1830’s. Each attribute of solar flux has...

10/29/2021

https://youtu.be/QzWF5-FgAQg
Here is the first of my talks for The Mars Society a few weeks ago. This is a lunar/mars surface base design that picks up with Starship and builds out from there.
One of my better talks because I scripted it more. ;)

Track Code: TD-2Abstract:Insight is a surface outpost design that finds the most efficient way to fill the gap between the first landings and settlement. The...

04/24/2021

In the process of rebuilding the site, I'm doing the parts I dread most first. So the donation/sponsor/contact info is loaded. I'll move it off the front page later when I do the second-most dreaded "about me" page updates.
Anyway, a key feature that's been broken for two months seems to have finally worked this morning, so I will hopefully spend more time creating and fixing formats and less time debugging things behind the scenes.

04/21/2021

Welcome to updates on the MacroInvent site and projects!

I'm in the process of rebuilding the original MacroInvent.com web site. WordPress and the various makers of formatting software have been stepping on each other's toes and breaking things. I'm trying to make a cleaner start by revising the key pages and fleshing out the content that was put on hold while I dealt with more pressing matters.

The video link/portfolio is in a near final form. Videos can be watched from the YouTube Mars Society channel directly in the site, and the slides are viewable in PDF where appropriate. This summer, I should also add a presentation on the Insight Moonbase design by the end of July.

The blog will temporarily be replaced with this page. This is a more practical option than cleaning up formatting on several years of outdated blog posts.

The Grand Challenge section is being re-built as a concept from a clean sheet. This will take the most time, in part because of ongoing technical issues with WordPress and a key plug-in feature. A simple "this is what I'm trying to say" set of tables will be used instead if the feature is not repaired by the time the content is ready.

The "Invention and Mind" book is always being re-thought as new concepts and associations come to mind. Several roadmaps for completing the book have been started and then tabled when life issues have interrupted the project. I'll be re-building the section with the introductory chapters once the main technical issues are fixed. I have at least two more chapters I'd like to add to the pre-publication side in the near future.

A core goal in the next few weeks is to get everything in this site working as a portfolio and contact page. I'm making appearances on Clubhouse and speaking at more conferences. I'm also networking with current and future partners on various projects. Once it's past the "nothing visible is broken" phase, I'll add a bit more new content while working on new designs for release in July and October at the Moon and Mars Society conferences, respectively.