Newest Episodes
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131: Recycling Solar
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss recycling solar panels–what can we learn from past efforts?
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130: It’s a gas, gas, gas – CO2 Batteries
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss CO2 batteries, how fast they might be here, and how much of an impact they may have.
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129: Liquid Sunshine – Storing Solar Energy in a Bottle
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss carrying a sunburn in a bottle… oh and it’s an energy storage solution as well. Discussing a recent scientific advance that could allow us to store solar energy directly into a liquid for up to 18 years.
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128: Biochar – Old Carbon Capture is New Again
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss biochar and other carbon capture methods that may overlap to help manage human generated CO2.
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127: A Bright Future? Solar Panel Breakthroughs
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss solar panel tech advances in efficiency breakthroughs, organic solar cells, perovskites, and multi junction solar panels.
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126: Are Solid State Batteries Still the Future?
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss what to expect when breakthroughs miss their moment. Are solid state batteries in danger of missing their moment to other technologies like lithium sulfur or Tesla’s new 4680 battery cells, chemistry, and structural battery pack?
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125: Sea(weed) What We Did? The Future of Plastic
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss the potential of seaweed as a plastic replacement.
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124: Geothermal… Boom!(?)
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss a Death Star we can all be excited about… that’s drilling with nuclear fusion technology, a gyrotron, for affordable geothermal energy.
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123: Oops! A Battery! Lithium Sulfur Accidental Breakthrough
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss accidental discoveries that push technology forward, like Drexel University and their lithium sulfur battery breakthrough.
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122: Pump Up the (heat and the) Jam – Heat pumps!
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss letting physics do the heavy lifting via heat pumps in our homes for heat and air conditioning.