by David Brooks | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog
Dartmouth News Department has a piece (see it here) about Thayer School of Engineering Professor Jifeng Liu, whose research includes efforts to make thin-film solar panels, which has long been a goal for better or cheaper solar power. His solar cell materials research...
by David Brooks | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog
Wired.com has a really interesting piece (here) about the energy crisis in Venezuela. Government incompetence has caused massive blackouts all across the country, but the piece argues that over-reliance on hydropower (now suffering from a huge drought) and other...
by David Brooks | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog
NHPR’s Sam Evans-Brown did a show about Corbin Park, aka Blue Mountain Forest Association, a roughly 25,000-acre private hunting club in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire (it occupies more than half the town of Croydon, and that’s just part of it). It has...
by David Brooks | Apr 28, 2016 | Blog
In New England, there is so much “behind-the-meter” solar power that the maximum output is equivalent to Seabrook Station nuclear power plant – except when we really need it, that is. At that point, two thirds goes away. This is the...
by David Brooks | Apr 27, 2016 | Blog
Reforestation is good for fighting change because trees absorb CO2, above and beyond the other environmental goodness they produce, but … (there’s always a “but” ) … new work from Elizabeth Burakowski, a postdoctoral research associate at...