Our Electrified Future with David Reichmuth

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Can the grid handle a 100% electric world? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore the carbon impacts of electric vehicles and achieving zero emissions with chemical engineer David Reichmuth.

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0:00.0	Some guy pulled up to the charging station
0:02.8	and he was looking at me like, you dick.
0:05.6	I can't believe you're at the 350 charging.
0:08.8	Okay, this is the future of street fights.
0:15.0	Welcome to Star Talk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:20.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:26.0	This is Star Talk.
0:28.0	Neil Degrass Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:31.0	Got Chuck nice with me.
0:32.0	Chuck, how you doing, man doing man hey what's up Neil okay
0:35.3	professional comedian and actor yeah acted like a comedian acting like a
0:40.0	comedian how's that working for you yeah well you you know, it's nice work if you can get it.
0:45.4	So today, what a topic today, long overdue, it's our electrified future.
0:54.0	Yes.
0:56.0	It's on, it's everybody's thinking about it, it's always in the headlines.
0:59.8	What path are we going to take as civilization in order to protect the very...
1:07.0	To survive? To survive? To survive.
1:09.0	Basically, let's be honest, we're... We're on the path to doom right now if we don't change.
1:16.0	Yeah, well, I will be here after climate change, but civilization won't.
1:21.0	That's the difference.
1:22.0	Exactly. Everything we've built and we call civilization. It's not clear how that will survive.
1:27.0	So what would be everybody who survives and Kevin Kostner.
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