Winding up Wind Power

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

With energy prices sky high, we continue our alternative energy month with a look at wind power. We visit a traditional windmill to understand how humans have historically harnessed the wind, learn about the turbines which you can buy a stake in, a new generation of kites that turn wind into electricity, how better weather forecasts can de-risk wind power, and why undersea cables can send sea creatures off course. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
0:03.0	Absolutely genius.
0:04.0	Get this.
0:05.0	Welcome.
0:06.0	This is the show where we bring science.
0:08.0	What that essentially means is discovery is
0:10.0	advances, research, technology, unbelievable.
0:13.6	Without further ado, this is the naked scientist.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome to the naked scientist,
0:19.6	the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs
0:22.0	in science, technology and medicine.
0:24.1	I'm Julia Ravi and in this week's program we look at the scientific highlights
0:28.8	from the last 70 years of the Queen's reign. The baby names which experience a boom and bust with their popularity,
0:36.0	and what does it take for a 20-meter-long top predator to go extinct?
0:40.0	And after that, we continue our alternative energy month as the cost of energy
0:45.0	continues to rise and this week we are all a flurry about wind power. We'll be
0:50.1	getting up close with a traditional windmill, learn about the turbines which you can
0:54.2	partially own, and hear of a homemade device which can capture the wind and turn it into electricity.
1:00.6	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. It's the Queen's Platinum Jubilee and across the country and the world. Celebrations are going
1:19.7	on to mark an event none of us will ever see in our lifetimes again. A British monarch
1:25.3	raining for 70 years. We're doing orbit here on the program to mark the
1:30.0	occasion by selecting some of the standout scientific highlights that have happened during the last
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