电影中的能源——哈?

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科学的不同分支在许多电影中都扮演了重要的角色。但是有一个类别经常被忽视:能源来源,即使主要电影的情节和转折点都取决于此。 中国综合症(简·方达,杰克·莱蒙主演)中潜在的核反应堆熔毁的可能性有多大?动画机器人WALL-E(本·贝尔特配音)用他的太阳能电池板给自己充电的速度有多快,以及是什么似乎给了他最终的机器人爱人,娇小的伊娃(艾丽莎·奈特配音)强大且看似无限的力量?其他值得考虑的电影包括:巨人怪兽公司矿工的女儿,当然还有回到未来及其钚动力时间机器。

 

电影中对能源的描绘从非常准确到松散再到完全荒谬,各种各样。 有兴趣吗?3月9日星期三,德克萨斯大学将举办一个关于电影中能源的娱乐讲座,内容包括视频片段,您可以在ScientificAmerican.com上观看整个活动的直播


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Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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