Ed Rollins asks whether electric vehicles are good for the environment. He says if you have a car that takes gasolene, it can only run on gasolene. So oil has become a strategic commodity simply because we need it to run a transportation grid. If you electrify the transportation grid, you are future proofing our pat into culture and a civilization that can wean itself off its dependence of fossil fiels.
What kinds of ologies are out there? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore and answer questions about the vast world of niche sciences with science communicator and host of “Ologies,” Alie Ward.
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