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Believe it or not, electric vehicles used to be more popular than gasoline engines. The first practical electric car in 1884, and for decades many ...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
By the middle of the 20th century electromagnets were common and engineers had begun experimenting with using them to levitate vehicles, including...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Today on Sea Change Radio we talk with two people working on very different fronts of the environmental movement. Our first guest is Dale Wannen, w...
Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
We’re told that genetically engineered Golden Rice is the answer to third world Vitamin A-related blindness, but is it? Join Food Sleuth Radio host...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 28:00
With the climate crisis staring us right in the face, the need to transform our daily routines has become increasingly apparent. A part of the solu...
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 29:59
There are no crystal balls. No one really knows the direction technology is going to take us. But, there are always those best guesses.
- Added: Jan 08, 2013
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 2
Author Steve Almond is an astute observer of American topics as disparate as candy, rock & roll and politics. This week on Sea Change Radio, in the...
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 29:56
Aside from some aesthetic advances and rudimentary low-flow innovations, the modern flush toilet basically has not evolved since its prototype firs...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
If you sit at the edge of Pacific or Atlantic Ocean and watch as waves ferociously slap the sands, you can’t help but recognize the awesome power o...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jul 10, 2012
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 1
Battery operated cars. No longer the exclusive domain of little kids huddled around a remote control, electric vehicles are beginning to emerge as ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jan 25, 2012
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
Reports of the health of our planet appear dim. Our conditions are becoming worse as hunger increases, and the variety of species disappear. Autho...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 1
We often hear about vertical economic growth and vertical integration in business but the idea of growing our food vertically sounds fantastical.
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- Added: Nov 22, 2011
- Length: 30:00
Remember when Lex Luthor designed a weather-controlling machine? Superman, of course, foiled his sinister plans…or did he? Using technology to cont...
- Added: Nov 16, 2011
- Length: 30:00
Last on Sea Change Radio, we heard from renowned energy expert Vaclav Smil, as he spoke about his book, Energy Transitions, the future of electric ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2011
- Length: 30:00
Clearwater uses a mix of biodiesel in the motor
- Added: May 19, 2009
- Length: 01:45
Lars Klüver of the Danish Board of Technology talks about the World Wide Views on Global Warming project he directs that will gather opinions of ev...
- Added: Apr 08, 2009
- Length: 29:30
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 16, 2009
- Length: 13:01
- Purchases: 1
Professional Lighting Designer creates enviro-friendly light systems
- Added: Sep 18, 2006
- Length: 07:18
