The New England power grid did quite well during the week-long heat wave in early July - there was no strain on moving power around, thanks to the gazillion dollars worth of upgrades that have been built in the past few years, and no strain on power supply, and for...

One of the things you can do on Twitter easily is run a poll, so I ran one last week asking this important question: You get to work and realize you have left either your phone or your lunch at home (but not both). Which would upset you more? I assumed the answer...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...