by David Brooks | Jan 28, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
In their 156 years of climbing to the summit of Mount Washington, the Cog Railway locomotives have gone from burning wood to burning coal to burning oil to burning diesel to burning biodiesel. If all goes well, in July a prototype will make the climb while burning...
by David Brooks | Jan 28, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
This sounds very interesting – here’s an edited press release from Eversource: Eversource, along with representatives from BXP, community partners and state and local officials, today broke ground on construction of the Greater Cambridge Energy Program...
by David Brooks | Jan 28, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A small bay on Squam Lake doesn’t have a lot in common with the Gulf of Mexico, but as of Monday they share at least one attribute: The U.S. Interior Department has changed their name. The Interior Department said Monday it has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf...
by David Brooks | Jan 28, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News: After six years of preparations and testing by a UNH-led team, a space instrument dubbed IMAP-Lo is now aboard a spacecraft and is readying for flight in 2025 to help scientists learn more about the sun’s interactions in the heliosphere and its...
by David Brooks | Jan 28, 2025 | Blog
Laconia Daily sun has a story about a Gilford company called Rogue that is developing LIDAR-based systems for orbiting satellites to identify objects in space . The full story is here. It’s part of the company’s effort to develop autonomous orbiting robots...
by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Much to my extreme irritation, I did not notice Monday’s earthquake off the coast of New Hampshire even though it was noticed by most other people in my office and rattled buildings throughout New England. Darn it; I’ve still never felt an earthquake!...
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