by Warp Institute | Dec 31, 2020 | E-book, π Premium Content, π° Space
The year 2020 has been a very special year on planet Earth. The COVID-19 pandemic came and shook our ways of life and changed the way we think about the world.But 2020 has also been a very special year in space and in space-related activities. It has seen a long...
by Warp Institute | Dec 30, 2020 | π Human Progress, π₯ Optimist's Edge
Nature and the Great Outdoors is back on the map! While spending much of our time isolated indoors this last year, nature took on significance. People found both refuge and entertainment outdoors, in nature. In America, the passage of the Great American Outdoors Act...
by Warp Institute | Dec 29, 2020 | β‘οΈ Energy
Recently, Our World in Data published statistics about different prices of various types of electricity. It turns out that the price of solar electricity dropped by 89% in the last decade. Our World in Data found that electricity generated from solar panels cost $359...
by Warp Institute | Dec 28, 2020 | π Transportation
Last year, a quantum computer from Google managed to solve a problem that would have taken a traditional computer 10,000 years in just 200 seconds. One problem was that it was a specially designed problem that had no practical use. But now researchers from Chalmers...
by Warp Institute | Dec 27, 2020 | β»οΈ Green Tech
Flash Forest, a Canadian startup, uses drones to plant trees by firing seedpods into the ground. The startup planned to use its technology to plant hundreds of thousands of trees at the end of this year. And by 2028 a full billion of trees. Flash Forest, like many...