Tasting the future of food at THE HEAT climate festival 
Participants at 🔥THE HEAT were able to sample a wide variety of future foods – thanks to our future-food curator Daniel Skavén Ruben, who organised the festival’s future-food exhibition.
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Fighting plastic waste with a new generation of biomaterials
looms.world’s Ksenia Starikova sourced some of the most exciting innovations in the new biomaterials space to bring to 🔥THE HEAT 2024. The festival let you get hands-on with sustainable alternatives to leather, textiles, rubber, fabric dyes, and more from 15 new-materials companies.
Attempting to crack near-limitless fusion energy using stellarators
Proxima Fusion believes that stellarators are the key to delivering near-infinite fusion energy. One of its co-founders, Francesco Sciortino, led a workshop on its work to try to crack fusion at 🔥THE HEAT 2024.
Attempting to unlock near-infinite fusion energy using tokamaks
Tokamak Energy is trying to crack fusion using tokamaks to deliver near-limitless clean energy. It brought a virtual-reality tour of its ST40 compact spherical tokamak which achieved 100 million degrees celsius to 🔥THE HEAT 2024.
Using an algorithm to rebuild the ice caps
Ever wanted to see the ice caps reappear? That is exactly what Ben Cullen Williams’s artwork Cold Flux does. He showcased it at 🔥THE HEAT 2024.
Making dairy-free cheese that tastes like the real thing
London-based startups JULIENNE BRUNO and Better Dairy are both on a mission to make authentic-tasting dairy alternatives without using any animal ingredients. They brought alternatives to conventional cheeses for participants to sample at 🔥THE HEAT 2024.
The electric car company that brought Ferraris and Bugattis to THE HEAT
Hedley Studios updates classic cars by making them slightly smaller than the originals, and fully electric. It brought two of its hand-built Bugatti Baby IIs and two Ferrari Testa Rossa Js to 🔥THE HEAT 2024.
Replace plastic packaging? Yes we can
Swedish startup Meadow lets consumer-goods companies phase out plastic containers — with help from the mass-recycled aluminium can. Its team demonstrated its visionary packaging design at 🔥THE HEAT 2024.
Learn to leverage storytelling to fight climate change
Ocean Culture Life is a thousands-strong community working to protect our oceans. Its leaders Matt Porteous and Tamsin Raine ran a workshop at 🔥THE HEAT on how to use storytelling to fight climate change.
How to fight climate change: laugh at it
Stuart Goldsmith (Climate Comedian) struggled to process his own ‘climate dread’, so he started writing jokes about it. Can the planetary crisis really be a laughing matter? Stuart’s set at 🔥THE HEAT 2024 suggested it can.
A one-stop satellite shop with customers across the planet
Harwell-based startup Open Cosmos lets you launch satellites to track climate-related data — from deforestation to coastal erosion. It brought models of its satellites and a demo showing use cases of its product DataCosmos to 🔥THE HEAT 2024.
