The Physics Behind Fusion's Biggest Problem
EP 20
·1:08:06

Transcription vs translation + sodium-battery mix-up

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1:08:08and translation, whenever I get excited, I mix up the two. >> Okay. But I do know what they mean. >> Transcription is DNA to RNA. >> Yes. >> And a it's in the word, right? Transcribe from the same language to the same language. There's a little bit of difference because instead of T, you're using U, but instead of ATGC, you you use AUGC. But it's the same nucleotide to nucleotide. Translation is going from nucleotide to amino acid. Right? So it's a different language altogether. And that's why you're translating. And you know when I get excited sometimes I say the wrong thing. >> Yes. >> But hopefully you guys know what I mean.

1:08:49>> Duly noted. >> Yeah. Um the fourth one, sodium batteries. Sodium batteries are actually a thing. And um we we made it seem like sodium batteries weren't a thing. Sodium batteries are a thing. There's active companies that are that are actually trying it. Solid state sodium batteries are not a thing. Right. >> Right. And that's sort of the holy grail that the Chicago UCSD paper was trying to solve. Right. They're trying to get closer to that solid state sodium battery because then we could start using it for EVs and long-term storage and all this other kind of stuff. Yes. >> Um so so they made a real leap forward in that solid state partid where there's no liquid electrolyte that's going around. Um, which if you listen to the

1:09:31full episode is, you know, >> yeah. Yeah, we we did make it a thing, but okay, fine. Fair play. Um, and then

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