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Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American.

For the seven days starting December 19th, I'm Steve Murski.

This week on the podcast, we'll look at an audacious proposal for solar energy.

We'll hear about a new health magazine from Scientific American,

and we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.

The January issue of Scientific American magazine features a multi-author article called A Solar Grand Plan.

Siams Mark Fischetti edited the article, which is also available free on our website.

Mark and I sat down in the Siam Library to talk about this possible solar solution.

Hi, Mark. How are you?

Hi, Steve. Good.

So this, a solar grand plan article in the current Scientific American, very interesting,

because I've seen a lot of other write-ups in journals that seem to make the point that it's just kind of theoretically impossible to generate enough

power, enough electricity with solar to really make that much of a difference compared to what we're

getting from fossil fuels. This article goes in a whole different direction and says, no, it is possible

given the, given the will.

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