In this episode of Science Nation, host Sorin Badea (Radio Guerrilla) welcomes Sabina Suru (Marginal.ro), and artist-researchers David Lazăr, and Vytautas Bikauskas (Lithuania), to explore sustainable computing hardware and alternative power generation.
David Lazăr outlines his work using second-hand computer components to run localized AI models and 3D rendering offline, bypassing high cloud costs and data center energy demands. Vytautas Bikauskas presents physical network devices that rely on hand cranks and human physical effort to generate electricity, highlighting kinetic energy as a viable power source for data transmission.
Science Nation is a weekly podcast and radio column, co-hosted by Sorin Badea and Andrei Tudose, on the Update show, at Radio Guerrilla.
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