Fusion energy is basically just smashing things together to make energy. Grossly oversimplified? Yes, but still accurate. First Light Fusion in the UK has a unique approach to fusion energy that takes that “smashing things together” to another level. I had a chance to see their facility first hand and
There’s no shortage of potential solutions to the world’s critical need for renewable energy storage. But there is a shortage of accessible and cheap resources to use for those solutions. With the limitations of materials like lithium and vanadium in mind, it’s logical to look for alternatives
Hey, want to hear the most annoying sound in the world? Okay, “most annoying” may be subjective, but according to a 2017 study from NASA’s Langley branch, humans find the buzz of a drone’s propellers to be more annoying than any other machine-based sound on earth, which really
Whether it’s to regulate the temperature of food, medicine, or people, we’ll always need some form of cooling tech to survive. We tend to turn to air conditioning to solve these problems, but that has us stuck in a positive feedback loop that isn’t at all positive.
Startup food company Vow Food is using bioengineering to grow meat in cleanroom environments. Vow believes that the future of meat is, instead of plant based protein, lab grown meats. These meats in the future could become household names. Vow currently has a quail like meat product that they formed
Quantum computers have been the stuff of science fiction for decades and promised by technology companies for almost as long. Although existing quantum computers can be computed on the fingers of one hand, their potential is absolutely massive. These powerful machines could help us discover more efficient carbon capture materials,
Machine learning and AI are two buzzwords you hear so often that they’re kind of losing their meaning. If we just focus on machine learning, there’s so much hype around its future potential, that it is easy to forget about what is already happening today. For instance, NVIDIA
Even though the cost of solar and wind is dropping, renewables might not be sufficient to meet our clean energy demand in the future. However, nuclear power can play a key role in the decarbonization of the energy sector.1 And I’m not talking about nuclear fission. Rather, quite
Just 2 years ago, the Planet of Humans documentary…shot…renewables in the face. To the point that one of the interviewees, Ozzie Zehner, said about renewables and recycling, “you would have been better off just burning the fossil fuels to begin with.”1 I get countless comments on my
The more the planet warms, the more we’ll need to cool down. Yet, our cooling systems are…heating…the Earth as they consume fossil-fueled energy and release greenhouse gases.1 Air Conditioning use is expected to increase from about 3.6 billion units to 15 billion by 2050.2
As revolutionary as plastics were for changing the course of manufacturing forever, it’s become a major burden on the world. With 91% of plastics not being recycled and each of us consuming 5 grams of micro plastic every single week, there has to be a better solution. In a
Just one short-haul flight a year produces 10% of our individual carbon emissions.1 We could go back to trains for our traveling, which produce about half the CO2 of a plane,2 but you don’t always have the time. What if we could get the speed of air