by David Brooks | Feb 4, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Amy Keesee, a UNH space physicist, has led a team that has mapped a “highway” of charged particles in Earth’s magnetosphere created during solar storms which “could help scientists predict when dangerous effects of space weather might be headed...
by David Brooks | Feb 4, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
As we all know, water and electricity don’t mix. Unless, that is, you’re fighting an electric-car fire. “It’s like a normal fire attack, but you have to have an adequate supply of water to ensure you can cool that battery. You may need additional water supply,” said...
by David Brooks | Feb 4, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Associated Press: A Maine science center has received a grant of almost $900,000 for research into ways that aquaculture of kelp can be used to combat climate change. Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences received the money from the World Wildlife Fund with support...
by David Brooks | Feb 1, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Space.com reports on a space first in the Pine Tree State: A small rocket billed as the world’s first commercial booster powered by biofuel has launched from Maine. The Brunswick-based startup bluShift Aerospace launched its first rocket prototype, called...
by David Brooks | Feb 1, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
(Note: after this was published I heard from readers about a few places doing this already, including Graphicast, a graphite mold casting company in Jaffrey.) For the last half-year of COVID-watching, we have been fixated on the number of cases and more recently on...
by David Brooks | Feb 1, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire is a nonprofit that is trying to get enough cities and towns to buy their electricity together, bypassing the utilities (for energy but not transmission – there’s no getting around that). The select board in...
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