Flora Lichtman सार्वजनिक
[search 0]
Download the App!
show episodes
 
Artwork

1
The Adaptors

Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
मासिक
 
A podcast about life on Earth during a weird time: now. We visit people who are thinking about the future and figuring out how we will adapt to a changing planet. Hosted by Science Friday alum Flora Lichtman, produced by Freakonomics Radio/The Atlantic alum Katherine Wells.
  continue reading
 
Loading …
show series
 
Wild yaks live on the roof of the world, a frosty high-elevation plateau north of the Himalayas. Conservation biologist Joel Berger, of the University of Montana and the Wildlife Conservation Society, wanted to find out how climate change might affect yaks, so he paid them a visit.द्वारा Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
  continue reading
 
On the International Space Station, sewage, condensation and even sweat get recycled into potable water. We have the technology to recycle water on Earth, too, but we don't use it as often as we could -- mostly because we think it's gross.द्वारा Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
  continue reading
 
In a fusion world, we'd generate unlimited clean energy from mini suns that we build all over Earth. Sound like a fairytale? Scientists at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab say we can get there -- if we can pay for it.द्वारा Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
  continue reading
 
New York City is poised to become the country's largest producer of an unexpected type of green energy. This fuel source you can make yourself - and you certainly do. Anthony Fiore, director of the NYCDEP Office of Energy, explains how NYC's Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant is turning sewage and food scraps into "black gold."…
  continue reading
 
Retired engineer Louis Michaud believes he has an idea that could solve the world's energy problems: A tornado machine. For 50 years, Michaud has been working on an "Atmospheric Vortex Engine" -- a device that he hopes someday will generate mile-high tornadoes from warm air heated by the sun or waste heat from power plants. The updraft would turn t…
  continue reading
 
Meet the adaptors: the visionaries, the scientists, the entrepreneurs, the backyard tinkerers who are responding to the challenges presented by climate change. We'll introduce to them, one story at a time. We'll bring you a new podcast every two weeks. We make videos, too. Host Flora Lichtman and producer Katherine Wells set the stage.…
  continue reading
 
Loading …

त्वरित संदर्भ मार्गदर्शिका