Episode
How Do They Do It?: Wind Turbines, Car Tyres, Mushrooms
Overview
How do they make wind turbines with twice the wingspan of a Boeing? Plus, how do they mould car tyres from the ooze of a tree?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 14
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 2017-02-17
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Wind Turbines, Car Tyres, Mushrooms is Episode 13 in Season 14 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2017-02-17. The runtime is 22 min.
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