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 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 9, 2022 | ⚡️ Energy
The fusion reactor at the British JET plant has smashed the previous record for how much energy a fusion reactor can produce.By heating 0.17 milligrams of fuel to over 100 million degrees, the JET reactor generated 59 megajoules. That is more than twice as much as the...
by Warp Institute | Feb 18, 2022 | ♻️ Green Tech, ⚡️ Energy, 👊 Green Impact
The world is transitioning to electric cars. This means that the amount of batteries is increasing significantly, and an extensive recycling industry is emerging."Waste is a raw material in the wrong place," says William Bergh, founder, and CEO of Cling...
by Warp Institute | Feb 14, 2022 | ♻️ Green Tech, ⚡️ Energy
Hydropower is an important renewable energy source, but power plants can also deplete biodiversity."Flows and water levels change when we build hydropower plants and dams. It prevents fish from migrating and changes conditions and living conditions for organisms...
