by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
In the 1980s I was a reporter in Tennessee and I covered a number of auctions of material from the cancelled Clinch River nuclear power plant. It was pretty cool seeing developers bidding on 20-ton concrete structures and other industrial material. Something like that...
by David Brooks | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog
In one week you can celebrate a delightfully weird astronomical event: Galactic Tick Day. It was created by a group of West Coast science enthusiasts to celebrate the journey that the Solar System takes around the disk of the Milky Way galaxy. The trip takes about 225...
by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2016 | Blog
Emera Maine, a smallish electrical utility in Bangord and northern Maine, is entering an interesting experiment, creating a microgird of solar, batteries and backup diesel at its operations center in tiny Hampden, Maine, and hooking that into a microgrid-of-microgrids...
by David Brooks | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog
Tonight (Tuesday, Sept. 20) Science Cafe Concord returns after a summer hiatus to discuss the topic “Coping with Climate Change.” I wrote a column in the Monitor today to spur attendance … AND THEN FORGET TO WRITE WHAT TIME IT STARTS!!!! (Pounds...
by David Brooks | Sep 19, 2016 | Blog
Institutes are an important driver in university research, usually created when a chunk of money is given by a person/place to target a particular topic. Really big institutes have their own offices or even buildings, but usually they exist as a virtual structure...
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