by David Brooks | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Organic dairy cows fed kelp meal produced less methane for part of the summer grazing season, according to researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire. Based on these initial and other...
by David Brooks | Jan 3, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Note: Despite the name similarity, QuasarWave has no relation to Quasar Power & Technologies in Belmont, NH, which is a military contractor of power equipment (milpower.com/) The company installing a factory in a former North Country paper mill hopes to create...
by David Brooks | Jan 2, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
For more updates and better details, including why a Utah company is setting up in our North Country, check the updated story. A company that plans to produce hydrogen as the ultimate clean fuel in an empty North Country mill is getting closer to opening a factory...
by David Brooks | Jan 2, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
If you hate deceptive telemarketing and phone scams – a description that covers every human being who ever lived – as of Jan. 1 you can push back a little more. A new state law imposes civil penalties of up to $5,000 for calls that pretend to be coming from a...
by David Brooks | Dec 31, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
When it comes to storing lots of electricity for periods of time longer than batteries can handle, there are plenty of ideas being tossed around. Pump water uphill to a reservoir! Fill underground caverns with compressed air! Push a train up an incline! Stack a tower...
by David Brooks | Dec 30, 2019 | Blog
Long, long ago in a newsroom far, far away – actually, it was 1999 in Nashua – I squandered many valuable hours arguing with people who insisted that the new millennium wouldn’t begin until the year 2001. Two decades have gone by but those folks are still around, or...