by David Brooks | Jun 17, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the many ways we need to change society to reduce damage to the planet is to replace concrete and steel in buildings with engineered lumber, a.k.a. cross-laminated timber. That’s a term for panels or timbers made from layering small pieces of lumber in...
by David Brooks | Jun 17, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Alas, the company Highview Power has given up on a plan I wrote about in 2019 to develop a long-term energy storage project in northern Vermont that freezes and unfreezes air. This is the statement I got from the company when I asked for an update: As a UK-based...
by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
That intriguing startup in Maine that wants to grow kelp on sea buoys and then sink it as a way to remove carbon (mentioned a year ago) is facing a lot of questions, reports MIT Technology Review (article here). Among them: Several seaweed experts and marine...
by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A big (by New England standards) hydroponic greenhouse that uses combined heat and power from natural gas to grow lettuce – and later, maybe, tomatoes – is being built on a former landfill site in the city of Berlin, way up North of the Notches....
by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The U.S. Geological Survey recently announced more than $4 million in grants for states to preserve “vital geologic data” but, as I found after checking, it won’t help the 19 tons of rock cores drilled beneath Conway i n1975. They are still being...
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