by David Brooks | Mar 4, 2021 | Blog
A Massachusetts start-up is trying to develop a wind turbine sized between the backyard ones that are mostly a flop and the huge ones that are great at generation but unpopular with neighbors. EnergyNews story is here. A New England startup is betting its small...
by David Brooks | Mar 4, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
In fossil-deprived Northern New England, where geology melted dinosaur remains and glaciers ground up everything else, woolly mammoths are special. (Addendum: They’re so special that a project at Harvard called Revive & Restore is trying to use genetics to...
by David Brooks | Mar 3, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The Boston Globe has an update on Commonwealth Fusion Systems, an MIT spinoff that is working on a fusion reactor. It’s going to build a manufacturing facility in Devens, Mass. and says it has “developed highly sophisticated electromagnets that can confine...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s very windy today in New Hampshire – lots of power lines down but not the ones to my house, thankfully. I’ve posted a couple items about wind speeds at Concord Municipal Airport, the National Weather Service’s official measuring spot, in...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Most of us have heard of computer network “honey traps” to lure in bad guys, but “canary traps” are new to me: “The canary trap technique in espionage spreads multiple versions of false documents to conceal a secret.” At Dartmouth,...
by David Brooks | Mar 1, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
“Maine Startup Aims To Pull Carbon Out Of The Atmosphere By Growing — And Then Sinking — Kelp Farms” I think that headline says it all – lots of details in the story from WBUR right here, notably the fact that the idea is to grow kelp on buoys out in...