Eps. 9: Professor Alex Freundlich

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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Chapters

• 0:21 Intro
• 1:04 Using moon dust to make solar cells
• 6:28 Melting using concentrated sunlight
• 7:42 Cutting frozen chickens and tumors with concentrated light
• 13:55 Designing the solar-cell-making rover
• 18:41 Darkening the moon for astronomy enthusiasts
• 20:13 Beaming energy from the moon to the earth
• 21:32 How Alex started graduate school
• 24:50 Episode end