
Satellites: forging metal and finding cholera
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Making New Materials in Space
Space forges want to be a carbon negative space company. How is that possible? When you think of a space company, how could that not be anything other than polluting? But what we're doing is using the space environment to make new super materials which can work more efficiently at higher temperatures. We don't have to be making huge turbine blades in space. What we need to be doing is making things like stronger bolts so that the green tech industry on the earth can use that to make more efficient wind turbines. Do you see this scaling out to be a multinational worldwide thing and realistically what timescale could we expect?
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