Plenty
Indoor vertical farms create the perfect environment for plants, reducing the unpredictability of changing climates. No pesticides or GMOs either. It packs 350x more crops in the same space used for traditional farming.
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NYC Mesh
Internet feels like a human right now: providing access to information, communication, and life admin tools (at the least). There’s around 1m people in NYC that don’t have access to internet, due to cost barriers driven to the oligopolistic market…
Traffic Simulation
This website helps you model out and visualise traffic impacts. Variables include the flow of vehicles, politeness of drivers etc.
Fast Fashion Laptops
Framework creates customisable modular laptops. This is antithetical to the modern laptop (planned obsolescence) because it promises to let you personalise, repair, and upgrade it easily – while remaining affordable. The modular setup means you can replace faulty hardware without…
⬆️ Energy = ⬆️ GDP
To understand why the world currently burns fossil fuels, it helps to follow the money. Energy demand has long tracked economic growth. So much so that for the past two centuries, the amounts of energy that economies need have increased…
Life is like Music
Alan Watts’ words making us think… Existence, the physical universe, is basically playful. There is no necessity for it whatsoever. It isn’t going anywhere. That is to say it doesn’t have some destination that it ought to arrive at. But…
We Are All Astronauts
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Transforming the Grid
To run the grid reliably and affordably, we need new cost-effective technologies capable of storing electricity for multiple days. Form Energy reinvented and optimized the iron-air battery for the electric grid. The active components of our iron-air battery system are…
Data Matters
Here’s a site that organises and allows one to set up RSS feeds for all things US politics. I don’t mean news media with click bait headlines, but actual public papers of the President, the budget, and proceedings in the…
Supermassive Black Hole
A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light cannot get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is…