Dr. Steven (Steve) Novella
speaker
1,490 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 27 Jun
Dr. Steven (Steve) Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And our cost to getting stuff to space has got to go down.
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There's a lot of things that have to happen before this really becomes cost and carbon efficient enough to be worth the risk, as you say, the vulnerability of having it up there.
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It's a cool idea.
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Here's the other thing is that the efficiency of the radio waves as a transfer of energy is really tiny.
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That's the limiting step right there.
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I think we need to figure out a way of getting a much greater percentage of that energy that it's collecting down to the ground.
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Otherwise, it's not worth it.
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All right.
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Thanks, Bob.
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Evan, this is kind of related because it's, I guess, a global warming themed news item.
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Tell us about recent temperatures in the Antarctic.
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Mark Twain.
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Of course, that's what everybody said.
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That's huge.
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That's incredible.
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Yeah, so did you mention that it's coming from Australia?
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Not that it matters.
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The River of Warmth is coming down from Australia to the northern part of, well, I guess they're all the northern part of Antarctica.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I guess the entire shoreline is north of the South Pole.
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