Creating Rocket Fuel in Space, Backpacks to Help Kids Read, and TDIH - The First Chocolate Covered Ice Cream Bar

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Using photosynthesis to create rocket fuel in space and turning old cement bags into solar-powered backpacks that are helping children with reading. Plus, on This Day in History, the first chocolate covered ice cream bar. Chinese Space Station Achieves First-Ever Oxygen and Rocket Fuel Production Using Artificial Photosynthesis | ZME Science In A World-First, Oxygen And Rocket Fuel Made Using Artificial Photosynthesis in Space | Wonderful Engineering In a first, oxygen and rocket fuel made using artificial photosynthesis in space | Interesting Engineering NASA's Experiment: Future of Photosynthesis - Christian Kromme Assessment of the technological viability of photoelectrochemical devices for oxygen and fuel production on Moon and Mars | Nature Communications Entrepreneur Transforms Old Cement Bags into Solar-Charging Backpacks to Help Children Read at Night | Good News Network Solar-charging backpacks are helping children to read after dark | CNN The Weird, Brief History of the Eskimo Pie Corporation | Smithsonian Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	slash setup welcome back to another edition of cool stuff ride home we have some of the
0:35.1	more interesting intriguing and cool stories from around the world.
0:37.9	I'm Reggie Rizu alongside Marcus Paff. On today's episode, Creating Fuel and Space,
0:43.6	backpacks that are helping children with reading, and on this day in history, the first chocolate
0:48.9	covered ice cream bar. That's all coming up on Cool Stuff. It has been reported that Chinese astronauts aboard the Tian Gong space station have made a groundbreaking achievement by successfully demonstrating artificial photosynthesis technology in orbit.
1:03.0	This innovation represents a pivotal step toward long-term space exploration and self-sufficiency, addressing critical challenges of oxygen production
1:12.2	and fuel synthesis for sustained human habitation in space.
1:16.6	The experiments conducted by the Sengzhou 19 crew involved 12 intergit trials within a specially
1:22.3	designed drawer-shaped apparatus.
1:24.8	Using semiconductor catalyst, the system mimicked the natural photosynthesis process
1:29.5	converting carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and ethylene. Ethylene, a hydrocarbon, holds
1:35.7	potential as rocket fuel, making this innovation crucial for space propulsion. According to China
1:42.1	state broadcaster CCTV, the process, quote, mimics the natural
1:46.5	photosynthesis process of green plants through engineered physical and chemical methods,
1:51.5	utilizing carbon dioxide resources in confined spaces or extraterrestrial atmospheres to produce
1:56.7	oxygen and carbon-based fuels, end quote. Unlike traditional methods requiring extreme conditions such as high temperatures or
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