Converting Aircraft Wind into Energy, Fossilized Bee Puzzles Scientists, and TDIH: Nylon Invented

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Today’s episode brings us the converting of aircraft wind (from jet engines) into energy, the fossilized bee that is puzzling scientists, and on This Day in History; the invention of Nylon. US airport installs world’s first pods that turn jet blast into power | Interesting Engineering Incredible 14.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil Bee Discovered In New Zealand | IFLScience Scientists Just Unearthed a 14.6-Million-Year-Old "Bee Fossil"—Its Origins Don’t Make Sense | Daily Galaxy A bee from the middle Miocene Hindon Maar of southern New Zealand (Hymenoptera, Colletidae) - Scientific Publications of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris Nylon and the Double Helix Wallace Hume Carrothers Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.3	Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home.
1:05.2	He's Reggie Rizzou.
1:06.2	I'm Marcus Paff.
1:07.1	We're bringing you some of the more intriguing and downright cool stories from around the world. On today's episode, converting aircraft wind from jet engines into energy and the
1:17.5	fossilized bee that is puzzling scientist. Plus, on this day in history, the invention of
1:23.4	nylon. All coming up on cool stuff. Turning now to an interesting development in the wind energy domain, detailed in the publication
1:32.7	Interesting Engineering by author Capel Cajal.
1:36.6	Jet Wind Power Corporation, a company based in the United States, has installed first
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