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Eps. 9: Professor Alex Freundlich
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Sebastian Husein
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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Sebastian Husein and Joe Karas talk to Professor Alex Freundlich from the University of Houston about solar cells made from moon dust, cutting frozen chickens with sunlight, and why flies in your vacuum deposition chambers can make your results a little buggy.
Music credits:
RetroFuture Clean and Furious Freak by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Intro
Using moon dust to make solar cells
Melting using concentrated sunlight
Cutting frozen chickens and tumors with concentrated light
Designing the solar-cell-making rover
Darkening the moon for astronomy enthusiasts
Beaming energy from the moon to the earth
How Alex started graduate school
Episode end