Back to episode — Episode 2579 CWSA 08/28/24
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'll be happy in the short run? Yes. Will eating a lot of carbs make you happy in the long run? Everybody knows the answer to that is no, because you're going to get heavy and it's not going to be good for your brain. So yeah, you could have skipped the science there. Just ask me. Yeah, eating ice cream makes me happy in the short run. How does it work in the long run? Not so good. Here's what I c…
← Previous segment →Now, I wouldn't bet very much that this will become a big thing, but how cool is it that what at least some people think is our biggest problem, the CO2, could be our biggest solution?
I've long wondered if we will have an industry where sucking CO2 out of the air and turning it into products, in this case a battery, is going to be a thing. So much so that people are sucking too much CO2 out of the atmosphere. I think there might be a point when humans are, just for their own economic reasons, sucking CO2 out of the air and turning it into stuff that they can sell. Could be a problem someday.
Well, here's something cool. New Atlas is reporting that there's a new design, hasn't been tested yet. It's a startup called Deep Fission. And the idea is they would use regular nuclear energy technology, not the generation 4, you know, not the new stuff, but rather the stuff that you would be afr
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aid of if it melted down. But what they would do is they would drill this ginormous 30-inch hole, 30 inches wide, a mile deep, and they would put some kind of mechanism, nuclear mechanism, a mile into your hole, so to speak. And somehow they would need no mechanical parts, just two pipes. I'm not sure how this works. They put some water into it, and the water heats up. The pressure of the water is…
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