Still To Be Determined

Jun 25, 2025 • E271 • 00:25:24

https://youtu.be/qDQ3N51WYgQMatt and Sean talk about solar panels that imitate the self-repairing traits of plants. Might this tech take hold, or is it too far away from practical applications?Watch the Undecided with Matt Ferrell episode, Why This Might...

Jun 18, 2025 • E270 • 00:38:13

https://youtu.be/dRkqXHvU71oThe Polyfloss team is back with a game-changer: a mini plastic recycling machine small enough for your workshop. Matt reconnects with co-founders Audrey Gaulard, Émile De Visscher, and Christophe Machet to discuss how they're p...

Jun 11, 2025 • E269 • 00:50:20

https://youtu.be/94r93XJ9BzAMatt had the chance to chat with Thomas Jam Pedersen from Copenhagen Atomics about their small modular thorium reactor that they’re bringing to the market. It’s an interesting conversation that covers everything from nuclear sa...

Jun 04, 2025 • E268 • 00:35:13

https://youtu.be/kAYdIpcDnZkToday is a very brainy conversation. Matt had the chance to chat with Dr. Kyle Wedgwood and research intern Wiktor Wiejak from University of Exeter in England. Wedgwood’s a mathematician specializing in neuroscience, and he’s u...

May 28, 2025 • E267 • 00:32:49

https://youtu.be/jLEO9Gbba0kMatt and Sean talk about the scramble to develop AI that could undermine the very underpinnings of … well… everything. Don’t panic. (Yet.)Watch the Undecided with Matt Ferrell episode, Why the AI Revolution Has a Fatal Flaw htt...

May 21, 2025 • E266 • 00:33:41

https://youtu.be/UWOAjs7ruGIMatt and Sean talk about desalination efforts deep under the ocean, and how it may play a part in solving water shortages. Don’t get salty before taking a listen.Undersea cables article: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/6015...

May 14, 2025 • E265 • 00:31:42

https://youtu.be/WoSE4ivjIv4Matt and Sean talk about wave energy converters and power generation, and how in the long run it could outpace solar and wind as a sustainable, renewable energy source.Watch the Undecided with Matt Ferrell episode, How Waves Co...

Apr 30, 2025 • E264 • 00:24:33

https://youtu.be/lE1-DprTJ0MMatt and Sean talk about a battery design that is both battery and the body structure of the device being powered. It’s not massless, but is two birds one … battery?Watch the Undecided with Matt Ferrell episode, The Strangest B...

Apr 23, 2025 • E263 • 00:22:15

https://youtu.be/dnRSrU8GwmcMatt had the chance to chat with Julie Slaughter from the Ames National Laboratory about their research into magnetocalorics (using magnets for heating and cooling). Do you think this is an attractive idea? Or does it repulse y...

Apr 16, 2025 • E262 • 00:20:23

https://youtu.be/LOuj1LUNijUMatt and Sean talk about a move away from lithium by a major battery manufacturer, and a paper battery that might be the sheet. Why the interest in these new batteries?Watch the Undecided with Matt Ferrell episodes;
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