by Warp Institute | Mar 13, 2022 | ♻️ Green Tech, ❤️ Health Tech, 💡 Innovation
Polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS, are substances used to repel grease, dirt and water. They are found in everything from frying pans to clothes and beauty products. A peculiarity of these substances is that they are very difficult to degrade and some do not seem to...
by Warp Institute | Mar 12, 2022 | ♻️ Green Tech, ⚡️ Energy
The Australian energy company Origin Energy planned to close down the Eraring coal power plant, Australia's largest coal-fired power plant, in 2032. But now the company has decided to close it seven years earlier and decommission already in 2025.The reason is...
by Warp Institute | Mar 12, 2022 | 📈 Human Progress
Today, whaling is only allowed in Iceland, Norway, and Japan, but one of the countries is about to change its mind.Iceland's Minister of Fisheries, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, believes that there is little reason to think that fishing will continue to be...
by Warp Institute | Mar 11, 2022 | ⚡️ Energy, 🧠 Artificial Intelligence
Deepmind, perhaps best known for their Alphago AI, which defeated all the grandmasters of Go, has trained an AI to control and sculpt heated plasma in a fusion reactor. The researchers used reinforcement learning to teach the AI to adjust the magnets...
by Warp Institute | Mar 11, 2022 | ❤️ Health Tech, 🍔 Food Tech, 👊 Green Impact
Things nearly turned ugly for you. You almost ended up becoming a banker?"Haha, yes," laughs Pernilla Westergren, founder, and CEO of Petgood. "I was an investment banker in London and worked for a Nordic private equity company. But I have always been...
