New Rule Sets Stage For Electric Grid Update | Harnessing Nanoparticles For Vaccines

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Upgrades to the power grid under a new rule could help accommodate an increasing renewable energy supply and meet data center demands. Also, extremely small particles might help scientists develop vaccines that are stable at room temperature and easier to administer.

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0:00.0	The vaccine could look a lot different than the ones today.
0:07.0	This vaccine could be delivered to your home and you could take a sniff of this vaccine and go back to work.
0:12.0	It's Friday, May 17 17th and it's also Science
0:15.2	Friday. I'm Cyfri producer Deep Peter Schmidt. Today's vaccines are a bit of a
0:19.6	modern miracle as we saw in 2021 when the COVID MRNA vaccines were released just a year after the pandemic began.
0:26.2	But despite the years of innovations that allow these vaccines to be
0:29.4	developed and mass produced relatively quickly,
0:31.6	their delivery method and injection is a pretty old technology
0:35.2	that has some drawbacks. So what could the vaccine of the future look like? But first,
0:40.4	IraFledo discusses the biggest news in science this week.
0:44.8	It's no secret that the US needs to update its electric grid.
0:49.7	As our climate gets warmer, more electricity is required to keep people cool,
0:54.0	and even though more renewable energy is being produced,
0:58.0	our current grid, largely built in the 1960s and 70s,
1:02.0	was not meant to handle those needs, especially now that AI and
1:06.1	crypto mining are eating up so much juice.
1:09.2	The good news, last Monday new federal rules were approved to upgrade the grid to accommodate those new demands.
1:16.1	So what are they and when will they be implemented?
1:19.5	Here to tell us more about this and other news this week is Casey Crownhart climate reporter for the MIT Technology
1:26.7	review. Welcome back to Science Friday. Thanks so much for having me back, happy to be here.
1:31.5	Nice to have you. Okay, so tell us about these new rules.
1:35.0	Yeah, so like you said, these are from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and they're
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