by David Brooks | Aug 3, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has found the place it wants to test an intriguing power source known as the Stirling engine: In the laundry room of the state hospital. On Thursday the state asked for companies to bid on its plan for a Stirling engine – a variant of gas-powered engines...
by David Brooks | Aug 3, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: A researcher with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire has received a $474,679 grant to determine if pesticide seed treatments inadvertently protect weed seeds in the soil from being attacked by naturally...
by David Brooks | Aug 3, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the most surprising connections between New Hampshire and science has to be the fact that the Clay Mathematics Institute, famous for its million-dollar Millennium Prizes to solve 9 deep mathematical problems (one of the original 10 has been solved), has its...
by David Brooks | Aug 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The big news in large-scale New England alternative energy is the Massachusetts Clean Energy program, in which utilities were required to procure 1,200 MW of clean energy, including large-scale hydropower, in addition to a separate requirement to obtain 1,600 MW of...
by David Brooks | Aug 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Fans of bitcoin in New Hampshire can now buy the digital currency the old-fashioned way – by walking into a local bank branch and writing a check. BitQuick, a Chicago-based cash for bitcoin startup, says that people can now buy the cyber-currency from other BitQuick...
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