# Neil deGrasse Tyson explains "How do batteries work?"

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**Created:** [January 13, 2024, 9:02am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/neil-degrasse-tyson-explains-how-do-batteries-work/194160 "2024-01-13T09:02:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/neil-degrasse-tyson-explains-how-do-batteries-work/194160/21 "2024-01-18T21:50:57Z")

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> [@Rainflurry](#):
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> Just to clarify, the Indy airport solar farm is the largest _airport_ solar farm in the world, but is nowhere near the largest solar farms in the world.

Yes - Your right. That’s what I meant.

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**Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/neil-degrasse-tyson-explains-how-do-batteries-work/194160/22 "2024-01-18T22:30:44Z")

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Don’t forget the extra shielding to avoid maiming or killing the astronauts from ambient radiation. GEO is in the outer Van Allen Belt except during strong solar storms when the magnetosphere is pushed enough to make most of the daylight orbit outside the magnetosphere. Still, for about 2/3 of those days they are still in the magnetosphere and it is more highly concentrated due to solar pressure.

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