Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella
speaker
1,941 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's fine.
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It's been doing well, but it's not the best way to go about doing this.
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Detonation processes use supersonic flame fronts, and they are the most powerful forms of combustion.
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Close to 100% of the fuel can be burned in this process.
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Remember that Beirut blast?
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Was that last year?
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That huge explosion?
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That was a detonation.
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So now we've been thinking, you know, we've known about this for years, about how powerful a detonation is.
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And we've been thinking about building engines that can harness it for decades, like over half a century, 60 years.
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But a detonation, you know, takes on the order of what?
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Microseconds.
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Super, super fast.
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Super, super quick.
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So how do you make that happen in a way that you can repeat it or extend it and still be safe?
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Right.
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I mean, you want to you want to ride a plane that's running on that Beirut detonation.
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Sounds pretty scary and risky to me.
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Well, they did create one type of engine in 2008.
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This was a pulse detonation engine.
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