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...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2016 | Blog
Dartmouth News says that the Life Sciences Greenhouse’s “corpse flower” (titan arum) is about to bloom for the first time since 2011, producing the disgusting rotting-body smell that has to be experienced to be believed, or so I’ve heard....
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2016 | Blog
I’ve always been surprised that delivery vehicles and buses haven’t gone the electric-engine route sooner than cars. They’re easier to electrify because they have predictable, usually not terribly long, travel paths, and because they return to the...
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