by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From N.H. Fish and Game: Recent surveys for bats in New Hampshire hibernacula, places where bats spend the winter, resulted in biologists finding a total of only 26 bats. In 2008, the same hibernacula had nearly 4,000 bats. Bats in the state have suffered from...
by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
In-home batteries like Tesla’s Powerwall are usually thought of as an accompaniment for solar panels – charge them up during the day, use the power after the sun sets – but that’s not their only use. In an interesting development that would be...
by David Brooks | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The above illustration was put together by the National Weather Service office in Gray, Maine, which also covers most of New Hampshire. It reflects the winter in Portland, but the general idea is the same throughout the Northeast. Here’s the accompanying writeup...
by David Brooks | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
This story, by Ethan Dewitt, was in Tuesday’s Concord Monitor: A recent string of autonomous driving fatalities has rattled consumers, prompted states and cities to review testing laws, and put the companies behind the vehicles – from auto manufacturers to tech...
by David Brooks | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s something about the term “waste heat” that just cries out for a clever engineering fix. Heat can do work, so if an industrial process or power production creates too much of the stuff, why can’t we make use of it? Joe Kellogg, who works with weird materials...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Changes in the beer industry that led a bottle factory to shut in Massachusetts, combined with China’s continuing crackdown on recycled materials, is starting to make it harder for New Hampshire to recycle glass containers. “I hear anecdotally that communities who...
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