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...
by David Brooks | Mar 1, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire is falling farther behind on electric vehicles and can’t do anything new with passenger trains and has a so-so-at-best intercity bus system – but hey, let’s talk about cargo-carrying VTOL drones, autonomous to some extent. (Definitely...
by David Brooks | Feb 27, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The coal-fired power plant in Bow has won another year’s funding from a program designed to guarantee future electricity supplies. The two units at Merrimack Station, soon to be the last coal-fired plant in New England, will be paid about $1.08 million per month from...
by David Brooks | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The Union-Leader has a good story about UNH research project to study syrup from tree species other than maple. You can read it here. Apparently this has been a thing for a while, although it’s new to me: “Our biggest customers are people that are really...
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