The geo politics of access to oil influences things like your price of gas at the pump, right? Right? And so that's weird when you think about it. So what happens when you use an electric car? Yes, you do have this hundred year old technology, the battery, but it's all we have for now. The batteries are geting bad than they were, but they're still batteries. But fine, right? I've got a battery and i use it all up, and i have to charge it,. But so what is a battery? Thit's like all these electrons in one half of the battery, and they have energy there. By tapping that energy, the
What if the dinosaurs had a space program? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore what Earth Day meant for the dinosaurs, how batteries work, and changing our infrastructure, with creator of Atlas Obscura, Dylan Thuras.
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