Fry Flying, Gas Giants at Home, Entangled Atoms

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🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Today we are discussing new sustainable fuels for airplanes, creating other worldly heat at home, and a new record for quantum entanglement.

Fry Flying

“Cooking Oil Could Be the New Jet Fuel” by Caroline Delbert
- https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a39612851/airbus-a380-flies-on-cooking-oil/
“Sustainable Aviation Fuels: Status, Challenges and Prospects of Drop-In Liquid Fuels, Hydrogen and Electrification in Aviation” by Ausilio Bauen, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1595/205651320X15816756012040
“Global Biorenewable Development Strategies for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production” by Kok Siew Ng, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111502
“A Step Change Towards Sustainable Aviation Fuel from Sewage Sludge” by Muhammad Asif Bashir, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaap.2022.105498

Gas Giants at Home

“Finally, a Practical Use for Nuclear Fusion” by Amit Katwala
- https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-fusion-spacecraft-jupiter/
“Feeling the Heat: Fusion Reactors Used to Test Spacecraft Heat Shields” by The American Physical Society
- https://phys.org/news/2021-11-fusion-reactors-spacecraft-shields.html
“DIII-D National Fusion Facility” by General Atomics
- https://www.ga.com/magnetic-fusion/diii-d
“Hypervelocity Impact in Stellar Media: Spacecraft Heat Shield Study in DIII-D” by Dmitriy M. Orlov
- https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP21/Session/WI02.2
“Laboratory Study of Carbon Ablation in Jupiter-Like Heating Environment” by Eva Kostadinova, et al.
- https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP21/Session/TO06.7

Entangled Atoms

“Record-setting quantum entanglement connects two atoms across 20 miles” by Michael Irving
- https://newatlas.com/telecommunications/quantum-entanglement-atoms-distance-record/2022
“Entangling single atoms over 33 km telecom fibre” by Tim van Leent, Matthias Bock, Florian Fertig, Robert Garthoff, Sebastian Eppelt, Yiru Zhou, Pooja Malik, Matthias Seubert, Tobias Bauer, Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Wei Zhang, Christoph Becher & Harald Weinfurter
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04764-4
“Quantum Internet Explained” by Ahmed Banafa
- https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/technology/digital-world/quantum-internet-explained/#:~:text=A%20quantum%20internet%20would%20be,in%20either%20zeros%20or%20ones.
“Quantum physics: Record entanglement of quantum memories” by ScienceDaily
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220707100920.htm

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:09.0	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff.
0:11.0	I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Kali. If you're dropping in for the first time
0:14.0	welcome to Curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:17.6	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about new sustainable
0:22.0	fuels for airplanes,
0:23.5	creating otherworldly heat at home,
0:26.0	and a new record for quantum entanglement.
0:28.5	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:31.5	Have you ever heard of those cars that run on recycled friar oil?
0:36.0	Oh, yeah. I actually had a friend in high school.
0:38.0	Super smart guy, sort of like our town's mad scientist who converted his own car to run on
0:42.8	bio-diesle. You could smell him coming down the road. It was just like hot
0:46.4	french fries. Well those vehicles might be flying overhead soon as well.
0:51.6	Airbus, the largest aviation company in the world,
0:54.8	is hoping to have zero-emission planes in its fleet by 2035.
0:58.9	Meeting this goal means investing in new planes and fuel technologies like recycled cooking oil.
1:04.4	And the results could make for quieter aircraft and help offset or eliminate airplane emissions,
1:09.2	a major contributor to greenhouse gases.
1:11.6	Okay, so Airbus, they've been in the news a lot recently
1:14.5	haven't they been doing some pretty big innovation already? Totally and for 15 years
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