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With a new president in the White House and stimulus money at the ready, the race to create alternative sources of renewable energy is on. Here’s an idea that’s being tossed around: wave power. Clouds may block the jolt to solar panels and still skies can stall wind turbines, but the ocean never stops ebbing and flowing, right?

A flurry of companies are engineering ways to turn churning water into electricity via floating wave parks. But some researchers in the field say that it can’t be done – at least not on most portions of united states coastline. Here to talk to us today about whether wave power can hold water is Malcolm Spaulding, professor of ocean engineering at the University of Rhode Island.

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The Gypsy Moth, the Hemlock Wooly Adelgid, the Asian Long-horned beetle and the Emerald Ash Borer… invasive insects have already done millions of dollars of damage and show no signs of slowing. Scientists are trying to combat these insects through biological and chemical agents and quarantine, as well as better education and stricter regulations. We’ll meet the insects invading our forests and what those in the Granite State are doing to eradicate them.

Guests

• John Weaver, Entomologist and State Survey Coordinator for the New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food
• Stanley Swier, professor of Forest and Landscape Entomology at the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension
• Dennis Souto, forest entomologist for the US Forest Service