SYSK Selects: Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 28 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The world’s energy consumption is ruining the planet but for decades physicists have been working on what could solve the world’s energy and climate change woes for centuries to come – nuclear fusion. Learn about building stars on Earth in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Hey everyone, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S. case lecture, I've chosen Can Nuclear
0:37.3	Fusion Reactors Save the World?
0:40.2	Well it turns out probably if we can just figure out how to build one properly.
0:44.9	Well sit back, buckle up and prepare to be titillated with what I find to be the most
0:51.1	arousing, amazing form of future energy around.
0:55.8	Enjoy.
1:01.3	Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
1:11.4	Hey, welcome to the podcast.
1:13.8	I'm Josh Clark, there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry, there's Barrow laughs.
1:20.2	And this is Step You Should Know.
1:21.7	TK was the old quick start.
1:23.3	Yeah, like I don't want to hear anymore, I'm pressing her cord.
1:26.1	Yeah, she knows that it shuts me up.
1:28.2	Or at least cuts off whatever conversation I'm chiding her with.
1:31.7	It was great, I'm telling you, if we could release the 20 seconds before each show as
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