Episode #996

Episode #996

News Items

• Moon As Deep Storage
• Pursuit of Happiness
• Measuring Blood Pressure
• First complex Life on Earth
• Life on Venus

Interview with Forrest Valkai

• https://www.valkailabs.com/

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  A new study finds that if the world’s highways were covered with roofs of solar panels they could generate more than 60% of the world’s electricity and reduce traffic deaths by 10.8%. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023EF003975

• Item #2 Fiction

  Engineers have developed a method for heating the plasma inside a tokamak fusion reactor for about one tenth the energy of current methods. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ad556f

• Item #3 Science

  Scientists outline a new method for warming the surface of Mars that is 5,000 times more efficient than existing proposals. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn4650

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘We must remember psychics and mediums have been plying their trade since the beginning of time, so if anything were to change, it may take generations of rational and critical work to settle the dark waters that are continually being swirled and muddied.’ Mark Edward