by Warp Institute | Dec 16, 2021 | ♻️ Green Tech, 💡 Innovation
Being able to ship refrigerated goods without using ice or classical ice packs is what the researchers from UC Davis wished for. Now, they have created a substitute for regular ice that doesn’t melt, can be composted, is antimicrobial and it’s called...
by Warp Institute | Dec 15, 2021 | 💡 Innovation, 🛰 Space
In A Trip to the Moon (George Melies, 1902), a genre-defining science-fiction movie, people travel to the moon in a capsule launched from a canon. Of course, the method is unrealistic for various reasons, and the comedic nature of the depiction reflects that.Since...
by Warp Institute | Dec 15, 2021 | 🛰 Space
Last week, we covered RocketLab and their spectacular new means of recovering their Electron rocket. Reading that article, one will likely understand that they want to achieve cost-effectiveness and short turnarounds. On December 2, they announced new details on their...
by Warp Institute | Dec 15, 2021 | ⚡️ Energy
Portugal's only coal-fired power plant has now been closed. It's nine years ahead of the timetable that dictated that Portugal would stop using fossil fuels for electricity production by 2030. 60-70 percent of the country's electricity comes from...
by Warp Institute | Dec 14, 2021 | 💡 Innovation, 🚘 Transportation
Ford and Purdue University in the US have patented a cable technology that in the future may mean that charging an electric vehicle takes no longer than refueling an ICE vehicle. The problem that the new cable will solve is that today's cables cannot transmit...
