Daverday castlvecky: We're not currently producing enough electricity to run all these cars. Once you have millions of cars attached to the grid, you can use the batteries on those cars to help to level out the electricity on the grid. Chek whele: Charmony, what have you been reading about this? I really like this story. daverday: As always, i feel like at the end of every one of these discussions, it's let's wait and see what happens, but potentially a brighter future than ie felt like we had at the beginning of this conversation.
A team is creating bespoke words for scientific terms in African languages, and the sustainability of the electric car boom.
00:46 Creating new words for scientific terms
Many words that are common to science have never been written in some African languages, or speakers struggle to agree what the right term is. Now a new project aims to change that, by translating 180 research papers into six languages spoken by millions of people across the continent of Africa.
As electric cars become more ubiquitous, manufacturers will have to up the production of batteries needed to power them. But that begs the question - can they be mass produced in a sustainable way?
We discuss some highlights from the Nature Briefing. This time, how a tusk-based ‘chemical GPS’ revealed details of a mammoth’s enormous journeys , and why the Perseverance rover’s first efforts to collect a Mars rock sample didn’t go according to plan.