Compost is useful as fertilizer but it also generates heat, and heat can be useful. Therefore, compost can be doubly useful. That bit of reasoning has been in play at UNH’s Durham campus since 2013. At the university’s Organic Dairy Research Farm, compost manure...

Canary Media has a story about the uncertain status of hydropower from Quebec coming to New England. The whole story is here. "At a time of year when Canadian hydropower typically supplies up to a tenth of New England’s power, the region has instead gone almost...

We had an issue with patents earlier this month so we’re re-running all of March. You may have seen some of these previously (Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following...

A nice photo package (see it here) from Dartmouth College about a test to increase carbon capture in soils: Most carbon in soil is eaten by microbes and respired back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, contributing to global warming. As part of her culminating...

Green Car Reports has a story about a study of the effect of weather on EV range in various states - and it says Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont are the most affected. The whole story is here. Vaisala, a Finnish instrumented measurement firm, analyzed the effect...

Note to punctuation geeks: Most style guides write it as AI without periods but I think that's visually confusing - "Who is this Albert guy you're writing about?" - so I do it this way. If you’re wondering whether the technologies known as “artificial intelligence”...

If you’re an early riser, Saturday will give you a chance to see a partial solar eclipse just as the sun is rising. While it won’t be as dramatic as last year’s total eclipse, the combination of the almost-complete eclipse with sunrise could be spectacular. “This one...

As many people have been saying for years, big batteries in cars are a valuable resource that shouldn't sit there doing nothing for the 95% of the time that cars are parked. Turning that obvious idea into reality isn't easy, however. The technology doesn't seem too...

Yesterday (Sunday, 3/23) the six-state New England electric grid set a record for largest production by utility - i.e., front-of-meter - solar (866 MW). Note that ISO-NE considers burning trash and burning wood for power as renewables, so it's not the same as...