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Undecided with Matt Ferrell
he World's Largest Battery Isn't What You Think
Sat, Apr 09, 2022
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The dominant storage technology for storing energy to meet peak demand is still the decades old pumped hydro storage.
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Revisiting Thorium Energy - The Future of Nuclear Power?
Mon, Feb 07, 2022
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  • Revisiting Thorium Energy - The Future of Nuclear Power?
To many people thorium nuclear reactors are an important part of our transition away from fossil fuels. But at this point the reactors are still fairly theoretical. Fianlly, as of 2022, prototype thorium power plants are under construction.
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5 Years with Solar Panels - Is It Still Worth It?
Mon, Feb 27, 2023
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  • 5 Years with Solar Panels - Is It Still Worth It?
Matt shares his person experience converting to a solar home focusing on costs and savings and some surprise he had to work through.
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Does Space Mining Solve Our Resource Problem?

SUnknownDoes Space Mining Solve Our Resource Problem?

Thu, Jan 07, 2021
With the demand for rare metals rising and the remaining supplies dwindling does it make sense to start mining asteroids. Supprisingly it's fairly economical to retrieve an asteroid but dropping the metals from orbit to Earth appears to be prohibitively expensive. More mundane resources like water are a better bet because it can be used to make rocket fuel.
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Energy Storage in Molten Metal? Liquid Metal Battery Explained

SUnknownEnergy Storage in Molten Metal? Liquid Metal Battery Explained

Mon, Jul 12, 2021
The 'green' energy sources solar and wind suffer from the shortcoming of being intermittent. This challenge can be resolved with an energy storage system, e.g. battery. The current leading technology, lithium ion battery, is not quite up to the task of large scale energy storage and delivery. Liquid metal batteries are a promising alternative.
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Exploring Massless Energy Battery Breakthrough

SUnknownExploring Massless Energy Battery Breakthrough

Mon, Jul 19, 2021
Fuel tanks in airliners are in the wings. That makes a lot of sense because the space can't be used for anything else, that's where the lift is and, here's the thing, the tanks add structure and strength to the wing. So why not do the same thing with electric cars and have the batteries provide structure to reduce the weight of the car. It's coming. Many laboratories are working on structural batteries and Tesla's next models will start using the concept.
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Why the Airship May Be the Future of Air Travel

SUnknownWhy the Airship May Be the Future of Air Travel

Mon, Aug 23, 2021
Airships, e.g. zeppelins, are obsolete and unreliable (think Hinddenberg) technology, right? Several companies disagree and have production models now in service to prove it. Since they can land and travel just about anywhere and are more fuel efficient that other forms of transportation there are host of tasks were airships are simply the best option.
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28,000 Year Nuclear Waste Battery? Diamond Batteries Explained

SUnknown28,000 Year Nuclear Waste Battery? Diamond Batteries Explained

Mon, Sep 06, 2021
Scientists have demonstrated that an electric current can be produced using the high speed electrons from beta decay of radioactive elements. So why why not create a nuclear "battery" that would never need recharging? And why not use nuclear waste as the radiation source? A couple companies are working on it.
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Perovskite Solar Cells Could Be the Future of Energy

SUnknownPerovskite Solar Cells Could Be the Future of Energy

Mon, Sep 13, 2021
Perovskite is one of the most efficient materials know for producing solar panels. And it is better than any commercial material in terms of manufacturing cost and solar energy conversion. There is just one pesky challenge to be resolved; durability.
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Energy Storage Breakthrough - Solid Hydrogen Explained

SUnknownEnergy Storage Breakthrough - Solid Hydrogen Explained

Mon, Nov 08, 2021
Hydrogren is a clean fuel that has a couple major drawbacks. First it is normally made by electrolysis of water which, in the near term, requires fossil fuels. Second, it is challenging to store in the vehicles that run on it. A company called Plama Kinetics has developed technology to work around these difficulties by extracting hydrogen directly from the air and storing it as a metal hydride.
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Why 3D Printing Batteries Matters

SUnknownWhy 3D Printing Batteries Matters

Mon, Dec 20, 2021
Several companies have developed three dimensional printing technology to produce lithium ion batteries that use less raw materials and, as a result, have a lower cost and higher energy density. Prototype batteries are now (2021) available and pilot productions lines are being built.
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Revisiting Thorium Energy - The Future of Nuclear Power?

SUnknownRevisiting Thorium Energy - The Future of Nuclear Power?

Mon, Feb 07, 2022
To many people thorium nuclear reactors are an important part of our transition away from fossil fuels. But at this point the reactors are still fairly theoretical. Fianlly, as of 2022, prototype thorium power plants are under construction.
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The World's Largest Wind Farm has a Tiny Problem

SUnknownThe World's Largest Wind Farm has a Tiny Problem

Mon, Sep 16, 2024
China has turned the Gobi desert into the world's largest wind generated electrical power resource. That was the easy part. The tougher challenge is delivering the electricity where it's needed and competing with lower price coal generated electricity,
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Europa: The Last Battle

Europa: The Last Battle

World War II revisionist film that claims Jews deliberately caused both World Wars--and that Hitler was only trying to save Germany from the Jews--as part of a plot to found the nation of Israel.

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City of Ghosts

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The anonymous activists who exposed ISIS atrocities in Raqqa. Follows their undercover operations, exile, and risks taken to reveal the ruthless realities under ISIS rule.

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007: The Daniel Craig Years

007: The Daniel Craig Years

As Daniel Craig prepares to bow out as 007, look back at his five films in the lead role, with a behind-the-scenes look at how the movies were made.

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Cries from Syria

Cries from Syria

CRIES FROM SYRIA is a searing, comprehensive account of a brutal five-year conflict from the inside out, drawing on hundreds of hours of war footage from Syrian activists and citizen journalists, as well as testimony from child protesters, leaders of the revolution, human rights defenders, ordinary citizens, and high-ranking army generals who defected from the government. Their collective stories are a cry for attention and help from a world that little understands their reality or agrees on what to do about it. A documentary by Evgeny Afineevsky, director of the Oscar-nominated film WINTER ON FIRE, CRIES FROM SYRIA premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

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Occupied City

Occupied City

The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming reflection on memory, time and what's to come.

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Hollywoodgate

Hollywoodgate

Immediately after the US pullout from Afghanistan, Taliban forces occupied the Hollywood Gate complex, which is claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul.

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