by David Brooks | Jul 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: University of New Hampshire researchers estimate that more than 10 percent of streams in the Merrimack River watershed, which covers areas of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, are impacted by high chloride concentrations as a result of road salt...
by David Brooks | Jul 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
On Monday, something began to happen that is either startling or irrelevant, depending on your point of view about what was once the dominant form of communication in America: over-the-air television. On that day, the broadcast signal for WMFP, an independent...
by David Brooks | Jul 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
An innovative program in Vermont that uses batteries in customers’ homes as a “virtual power plant” paid off to the tune of almost half a million dollars during the recent heat wave, according to the utility running the project. “During that peak usage, peak hour,...
by David Brooks | Jul 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Before we delve into details of creating a clean-energy microgrid on scenic Appledore Island, a question: Would you rather hear about battery chemistry, recharge rates and load-balancing, or would you rather hear about bird poop on solar panels? Yeah, that’s what I...
by David Brooks | Jul 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth-Hitchcock: Sepsis kills a quarter of a million Americans each year – as many as stroke and Alzheimer’s combined – but very little has changed in the treatment of this age-old scourge. Now an international group of researchers including...
by David Brooks | Jul 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The Archimedes Screw is one of the basic simple machines of proto-technology and except for the inclined plane (which to my mind is too simple to be considered a machine, no matter what they say!) is probably the one still used the most at industrial scale. It’s...