by David Brooks | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Every few years a new study comes out about geothermal power in the U.S., which means that every few years I can talk about how the Conway region is one of the most likely places for geothermal power in the Northeast. I mean real geothermal, which uses high...
by David Brooks | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
As promised last week, I’m hosting a talk next Tuesday (Sept. 26) after a showing of “Counting From Infinity” – here’s my column from the Monitor discussing it: No matter how many bar arguments you’ve been involved in, I’ll bet you’ve...
by David Brooks | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Concord TV, the community access channel in the state capitol, films each month’s Science Cafe Concord and puts it online. They share the file with other community-access channels across the country and tell me that lots of other stations rebroadcast it. We seem...
by David Brooks | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s pretty much de rigueur for New England news outlets to run some sort of “ever wonder why leaves change color each fall?” story each fall. Since this is a blog, I don’t have to write it – I can steal it! There are plenty of places to...
by David Brooks | Sep 13, 2017 | Newsletter
This week has seen a celebration of the increasing number of cars on our roads that are powered by electrons rather than fossil fuel, but as this numbers grows a question is growing with them: Where are their service stations? The question isn’t as important as it...
by David Brooks | Sep 13, 2017 | Newsletter
These days, New England operates on natural gas. We heat with it and generate about half our electricity with it; any other option is more expensive. But we don’t want more pipelines bringing it into the region and would like to do without fossil fuels entirely,...