Rebuilding Louisiana’s coast, and recycling plastic into fuel

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🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall about a restoration project to add 54 square kilometers back to the coast of Louisiana by allowing the Mississippi River to resume delivering sediment to sinking regions. Also on this week’s show, Dion Vlachos, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, Newark, and director of the Delaware Energy Institute, joins Sarah to talk about his Science Advances paper on a low-temperature process to convert different kinds of plastic to fuels, like gasoline and jet fuel. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: Shannon Dosemagen/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Warren Cornwall; Sarah Crespi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.0	Welcome to the science podcast for April 23, 2021.
0:47.3	I'm Sarah Crespi.
0:50.4	Each week, we feature the most interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals.
0:53.2	First up, contributing correspondent Warren Cornwall.
0:56.2	He's going to talk about a 50-year, $50 billion project to rebuild Louisiana's
1:01.9	vanishing coast.
1:03.6	Next up, researcher Dionne Vlakis discusses his science advances paper on a new process for
1:09.8	recycling many kinds of plastics into fuels and lubricants.
1:18.3	Now we have contributing correspondent Warren Cornwall. He wrote this week about a 50-year,
1:24.5	$50 billion engineering project to rebuild a huge sweep of the coast of Louisiana.
1:31.0	Hi, Warren.
1:31.7	Hi, Sarah.
1:32.5	This is a big project, and it's going to take time and money to do this, but the goal is big, too.
1:39.8	Talk about what the stakes are, what's been lost, what's being lost still, and hopefully
1:45.2	going to be regained through this engineering project.
1:48.2	Well, Louisiana has been losing an enormous amount of its coastal wetlands for decades,
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