Houses of the Future

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2008

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Sustainable Solar power in Sydney, home-generated electricity and green-housing developments go under the microscope this week as we explore the science of sustainable living. Meanwhile Dave goes for gold in water recycling by purifying and drinking water from urine, and we also find out how vitamin supplements can kill, discover an atom-thin transistor and hear how testosterone provoke boom and bust on the stock market. So join us as we become eco-estate agents and go through the keyholes of the Green Houses of Tomorrow! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	It's science,
0:05.0	science, but not as you know it.
0:08.0	The Naked Scientists.
0:10.0	Hello, welcome to this week's Naked Scientists with me, Chris Smith, and also with Richard Van Norden.
0:15.2	Hello.
0:16.2	Coming up this week a hard pill to swallow because doctors have found that far from lengthening your life,
0:20.8	taking vitamins might actually contribute to an early death.
0:24.0	We'll also be finding out why making the computers of tomorrow could turn out to be a PC of cake,
0:28.2	excuse the pun, because scientists have invented a transistor that's just 10 atoms wide and one atom thick. How does it work?
0:34.0	Plus we'll be finding out how scientists have shown that the boom and the bus behavior we see in the stock market
0:39.0	could just be down to people's hormones. Richard.
0:41.0	Thanks Chris.
0:43.0	Also this week we're stepping over the threshold of the houses of the future with a look at the
0:46.7	science of sustainable living.
0:49.1	We'll be hearing from the man who's turned his home into a solar power station about a new kind of boiler that
0:54.0	heats your home and at the same time generates some electricity for free and
0:57.5	how to build houses that don't cost the earth and that's in terms of the
1:01.8	energy it takes to run them as well as the
1:03.8	price tag. Thank you Richard. Plus we've also got the answer to this week's
1:07.2	rather electrifying question of the week. My dad always used to unplug the TV
1:11.6	when lightning was nearby. Was this the right thing to do?
1:16.0	Excuse a pun, what is the current advice?
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