by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2016 | Blog
Emera Maine, a smallish electrical utility in Bangord and northern Maine, is entering an interesting experiment, creating a microgird of solar, batteries and backup diesel at its operations center in tiny Hampden, Maine, and hooking that into a microgrid-of-microgrids...
by David Brooks | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog
Tonight (Tuesday, Sept. 20) Science Cafe Concord returns after a summer hiatus to discuss the topic “Coping with Climate Change.” I wrote a column in the Monitor today to spur attendance … AND THEN FORGET TO WRITE WHAT TIME IT STARTS!!!! (Pounds...
by David Brooks | Sep 19, 2016 | Blog
Institutes are an important driver in university research, usually created when a chunk of money is given by a person/place to target a particular topic. Really big institutes have their own offices or even buildings, but usually they exist as a virtual structure...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2016 | Blog
Dartmouth News says that the Life Sciences Greenhouse’s “corpse flower” (titan arum) is about to bloom for the first time since 2011, producing the disgusting rotting-body smell that has to be experienced to be believed, or so I’ve heard....
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2016 | Blog
I’ve always been surprised that delivery vehicles and buses haven’t gone the electric-engine route sooner than cars. They’re easier to electrify because they have predictable, usually not terribly long, travel paths, and because they return to the...
by David Brooks | Sep 14, 2016 | Blog
A crummy little dam – 5 feet high, made of interlocking steel plates (a design that’s new to me) was removed from the White River in Vermont this week, freeing up 100 miles of river to native trout that previously were blocked. Unlike large-scale dam...
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