Why Don’t We Have Battery-Powered Airplanes?
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🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how a planet-friendly diet also tends to be healthier and why we don’t have battery-powered airplanes. But first, social psychologist and author Devon Price is back to explain how we can all avoid burnout.
Additional resources from Dr. Devon Price:
- Preorder "Laziness Does Not Exist" on Amazon: https://amzn.to/393WHTM
- Dr. Devon Price on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drdevonprice
- Dr. Devon Price on Medium: https://devonprice.medium.com/
A Planet-Friendly Diet Also Tends to Be Healthier by Sonja Hodgson
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- Rose, D., Heller, M.C., Willits-Smith, A.M., Meyer, R.J. (2019 March). Carbon footprint of self-selected US diets: nutritional, demographic, and behavioral correlates. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqy327
Why don’t we have battery-powered airplanes? by Cameron Duke
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- E&T editorial staff. (2020, January 31). EasyJet partner takes ‘crucial step’ towards electric plane. TheIET.Org. https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2020/01/easyjet-partner-takes-crucial-step-towards-its-first-electric-plane/
- Rogan, J. Europe’s new aviation vision: is electric the future? (2018, July 3). Venner Shipley. Vennershipley.Co.Uk. https://www.vennershipley.co.uk/resources/publications/2018/07/03/europes-new-aviation-vision-is-electric-the-future
- Hawkins, A. J. (2019, August 14). This company wants to fill the skies with hydrogen-powered planes by 2022. The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20804257/zeroavia-hydrogen-airplane-electric-flight
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- Lee, D. S., Fahey, D. W., Skowron, A., Allen, M. R., Burkhardt, U., Chen, Q., Doherty, S. J., Freeman, S., Forster, P. M., Fuglestvedt, J., Gettelman, A., De León, R. R., Lim, L. L., Lund, M. T., Millar, R. J., Owen, B., Penner, J. E., Pitari, G., Prather, M. J., … Wilcox, L. J. (2020). The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018. Atmospheric Environment, 117834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117834
- Our failure to kick the flying habit means aviation needs to go green. (2019). New Scientist. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132111-600-our-failure-to-kick-the-flying-habit-means-aviation-needs-to-go-green/
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- Why Did a Delta Plane Dump Jet Fuel Over Los Angeles Schools? (2020, January 15). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/us/delta-dumps-fuel-los-angeles.html
- Adams, E. (2017, May 31). Electric Airplanes Need Better Batteries—Which Should Arrive in 30 Years. WIRED. https://www.wired.com/2017/05/electric-airplanes-2/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Natalia Reagan. |
| 0:10.3 | Today you learn about how a planet-friendly diet also tends to be healthier and why we don't have battery-powered airplanes. |
| 0:17.0 | But first, Social Psychologist and author Devon Price is back to explain how we can all avoid burnout. |
| 0:23.2 | Let's set us fast in curiosity. |
| 0:26.1 | Yesterday, Dr. Devon Price explained how laziness can benefit us |
| 0:29.7 | and why we need to be kinder to ourselves. |
| 0:32.1 | Today, they're going to give us some solid tips on how to do that, |
| 0:35.6 | especially in the workplace. Dr. Devon Price is a social psychologist and professor at |
| 0:40.8 | Loyola University in Chicago. |
| 0:42.8 | They're also the author of the upcoming book, Lazyness does not exist, |
| 0:46.9 | which makes the case for why what we think of as laziness really comes from the pressure to do too much. In our conversation, Natalia asked |
| 0:54.9 | them whether there are any good tips for avoiding burnout. Here's Devon. |
| 0:59.9 | Ideally you want to not get even close to that burnout point obviously like prevention is key and I think the thing that really sets people up for burnout and for being really disappointed in themselves is biting off way more than they can actually chew. |
| 1:14.4 | We have so many standards in place and kind of a sense of should that we should work eight hours |
| 1:19.5 | a day and do an hour of exercise every day and cook meals and volunteer all of these things and there's just no |
| 1:27.7 | Scientific research to backup that that's sustainable for most people it just most people don't actually work a full eight hours a day. |
| 1:34.0 | You have to slack off at work, |
| 1:35.8 | even if you're trapped in an office for eight hours, |
| 1:37.6 | your brain just can't handle it. |
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