ISO New England, the folks who run the six-stage power grid, had filed a proposal with FERC, the federal group that regulates electricity, for ways to integrate batteries and other fast-acting storage into its energy markets. Here's their news release, and here is...

Wood stoves are pretty old-fashioned in the era of solar power (and maybe the hydrogen economy!) But that doesn't mean they can't be improved, which is the idea of an annual contest sponsored by an industry group and held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C....

You know what New Hampshire needs? It needs a secret system to create hydrogen gas as the ultimate clean fuel, operating inside an old mill building next to a giant power-hungry data center that might be used to mine bitcoin. Sounds improbable, yes – but we just might...

New Hampshire doesn't allow early voting - you can't cast a ballot before election day unless you're going to be out of town or unable to make it to the polls - and yet we consistently have one of the highest election turnout percentages among similar states, as I...

(The first thing I thought of when I read this was Asimov's short story "The Last Question") By David Hirsch, Dartmouth News Service: In search of inspiration for improving computer-based text translators, researchers at Dartmouth College turned to the Bible for...