by David Brooks | May 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Burgess BioPower, a wood-burning electricity plant in the North County city of Berlin, has gotten a $500,000 state grant to heat a greenhouse for vegetables with its waste heat. From a press release: The recovered energy will be used to heat a state-of-the-art, $25...
by David Brooks | May 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Microgrids – large-ish collections of buildings that can power themselves for at least a while independently of the main power grid – are seen as one of the ways that the electric system can cope with the new reality of renewables and distributed energy....
by David Brooks | May 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The Brewing Science Lab has been a publicity gold mine for UNH. Reporters (including me) can’t resist stories about the science of making beer. Here’s the latest example: A nice piece in Foster’s Daily Democrat, the weirdly-named daily paper of...
by David Brooks | May 13, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Today in Manchester they unveiled a statue of home video game pioneer Ralph Baer, about whom I have written many times. It shows him sitting on a bench playing with the “brown box” that was the first iteration of what eventually became Maganvox Odyssey,...
by David Brooks | May 13, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
YouTube is horrible for many things but it’s awesome for training videos. My wife and I have used them for everything from very minor car repairs to fixing the sink to learning the Shim-Sham (a lindy hop dance – which we’re still trying to learn)....
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