Most of our transportation endency runs on gasolene or deasel, right? And so we all know where to get that. What made gasoline oil derived products so effective, because they have a lot of chemical energy built into their mol ules. You carry that with you. So the portability of energy is everything, ight? Ok. Here's the problem if you had pure solar panels on your car, ok. Well, what happens if a cloud goes in front of the sun? Ay youn.
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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