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...
by David Brooks | Mar 1, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
here’s a high-tech bit of New Hampshire on the Perseverance rover that NASA just landed on Mars, but to be perfectly honest, it doesn’t look very high-techish. “You see that disk? We made all the white stuff,” said Art Springsteen, who with his wife, Kathryn, is...
by David Brooks | Mar 1, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has long been a laggard when it comes to solar power. Maybe we need some banjos. “We’ve had fiddlers and guitar players at one of the raisers,” said Chris Kolb, president of a volunteer group called HAREI that installed 15 rooftop solar arrays atop homes...
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