Episode 2668 CWSA 11/23/24
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What is the simultaneous sip?
For the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine, the hell of the day, the thing that gives you a little bit of oxytocin that you didn't even earn. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Delicious.
Are cold plunges effective for health?
Well, there's a new study that says that cold plunges are not actually helpful after all, and it's really just a way to make you torture yourself and take pictures that you can put on social media. Now, I don't know if that's true, but NBC News says, according to the American Physiological Society, warm water is better for you. So ice is good for injuries. It's good for showing off how much cold you can take. It's not that good for you. However, I would add this caveat. When science does not agree with personal experience, which one do you trust? It's a tough one. Based on personal experience, The anecdotal experience of me watching other people, because there's no way in hell I'm going to get in a big... There's not the slightest chance in the world I would ever get in a bunch of ice water and sit there. Literally nothing could make me do that. But the people who do do it, they report that the rest of their day is much more awesome.
So if you were to just look at the psychological, mental aspects of it, I suspect you would have a different opinion. So I'm guessing that the psychological part of it, just really getting your body going is probably pretty amazing. However, I think I will stick to my hot baths and hot water. Here's a little, this sounds like a little thing that might be a big thing. So there's, according to SciNews, researchers found a way to convert CO2 into methane in a really efficient way. They've got this special nickel-based catalyst. Now imagine that. Imagine if you could get essentially energy just out of the air. Because apparently this is a big enough breakthrough that it would really make it economical
How can CO2 be converted into energy?
without a lot of equipment and expense, to actually convert CO2, which is everywhere in the air, into methane, which you could then use as a power source. Now that's pretty cool. Again, for the NPCs, a special note for the NPCs, if you're a player, you don't need to listen to this, but if the NPCs Oh, no, the nickel catalyst is going to take all the CO2 out of the air and then our plants will die. Don't they know our plants will die? Doesn't anybody know that CO2 is plant food and all the plants are going to die? All right, I just have to say that for any story about pulling CO2 out of the air. They're not wrong. Now, also, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they've got this new...
What breakthroughs are being made in battery technology?
new way to store energy rather than having lithium batteries. They've got some kind of bromide-based aqueous flow batteries. Promising. That's right, bromide-based. So if you're a bro, that's probably not what bromide is about. But the current way that they use this technology isn't really as efficient as it needs to be. But it turns out they've made some developments in the non-lithium batteries that would make them not burst into fire because lithium always has that risk. And they would last a long time. So it might be a way to store energy in the grid in a way that lithium maybe is not so good for. So that's a big deal. And how about this? Scientists, according to No Ridge, They've created a durable coating to boost their perovskite solar cells. So that's not the normal kind. Normally the solar cells are silicon, but there's this other kind that they don't use much because it doesn't last very long. It wears out or something. But now they've got this special protective coating to make it last a long time, which could make the cost of solar come way down.
So these are all the things that are just sort of in laboratories and stuff. Here's another one. This one is the coolest one, I think. Rice University, according to the science blog, quantum physics being used to convert industrial heat into electricity. Did you know that there is a device that can turn heat into light, and then when it's light, they can use solar devices to turn it into electricity? So there's some big breakthrough here. The breakthrough centers on improving the thermophotovoltaic systems, which transforms heat into electricity through light. And they've got efficiency levels above 60%. And it's within the practical zone.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the simultaneous sip?
0:01–0:21
2
Are cold plunges effective for health?
0:21–2:40
3
How can CO2 be converted into energy?
2:40–3:36
4
What breakthroughs are being made in battery technology?
3:36–18:38
5
Can we achieve justice in racially charged cases?
18:38–21:25
6
What are the implications of robots in the workforce?
21:25–38:55
7
How does the media handle legal issues involving public figures?
38:55–47:21
8
What is the future of MSNBC under Elon Musk's ownership?
47:21–1:16:16
Speakers
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