by David Brooks | Nov 1, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Inspired by a color changing mechanism found in cephalopods, like squid, cuttlefish and octopus, researchers at the University of New Hampshire have conceived a design for a unique sequential cell-opening mechanism that has many potential...
by David Brooks | Nov 1, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Bob Sanders of NH Business Review has an excellent look at why a lot of very large (by NH standards, anyway) solar projects are being proposed in the states: All the projects being proposed in New Hampshire total 210 MW of capacity, triple the state’s solar capacity...
by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
This article ran in the Oct. 29 edition of the Concord Monitor; the conference happened Oct. 28. Of all the changes that solar power, wind power and related technologies have brought to the century-old business of making electricity, one of the more surprising is that...
by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The Associated Press reports that the New Brunswick-based Atlantic Salmon Federation, which has been monitoring the Magaguadavic River in that province since 1992, says this is the first year since then that no wild salmon have returned to the river to spawn. This is...
by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
If you’re not the sort of person who gets worked up over the issue known as digital right to repair, Chad Johansen has an image that might change your mind. “Imagine if you changed the oil in your car and when your car notices that you did it yourself, (that) you...