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Small Screen Looks at an Electrified America

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Scientific American

Science

4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2015

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Scientific American's David Biello hosts a new episode of the TV series Beyond the Light Switch, focusing on the means to and effects of a more electricity-powered country. Steve Mirsky reports   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski. Got a minute?

0:39.8

So in Beyond the Lights Switch 1 and 2, we kind of looked at the nation's energy mix.

0:45.0

What our energy options are for producing electricity going forward.

0:49.4

David Beello. He's the Energy and Environment editor at Scientific American and host of the Beyond the Lights Switch series produced by Detroit Public Television and aired nationally on PBS.

1:00.8

The original episodes aired back in 2012.

1:03.8

Now in the new episode, Beyond the Light Switch 3, if you will, we're looking at what it would mean if the U.S. went more electric.

1:12.0

One of the ideas for cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution and a lot of the other problems we have

1:17.2

with fossil fuels is to get rid of internal combustion engines and replace them with electric cars.

1:23.3

To have electric cars, you need better batteries, and we explore what the options are for getting those better batteries.

1:30.3

We also look at what better batteries might do for soldiers.

1:34.6

I spoke with soldiers who served in Iraq, basically guarding fuel convoys, which was the most dangerous job.

1:42.1

A significant chunk of our casualties came from these fuel convoys, which were like really rolling bombs.

1:49.3

So those are the kinds of things we're looking at in this episode.

1:53.1

And what that might mean for the American home in the suburbs.

1:56.8

We visit this kind of innovative suburban experiment, really, in Texas outside of Austin.

2:03.2

It's called the Miller neighborhood.

2:05.7

And basically, most of the people there have photovoltaics.

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