by David Brooks | Feb 20, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Bulletin’s William Skipworth has an Feb. 20 update on anti-vaccine bills in the NH legislature: The New Hampshire House of Representatives rejected a proposal Thursday to end all vaccine mandates in the state. “New Hampshire has the lowest...
by David Brooks | Feb 19, 2026 | Newsletter
The Union-Leader has a story (here it is) about a proposal to build a big anerobic digester in Salem, NH – which is cool, those are a useful technology for coping with our waste. But the best part, IMHO, is this sentence: “Another aspect of the project is...
by David Brooks | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
(UPDATE: This story got picked up by Google so a lot of non-local comments are attached,most of which say “Just allow more hunters!” – but the number of people with hunting licenses in NH has gone down for decades. It’s not that big a part of...
by David Brooks | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
Solar is the driving force of the energy transition but batteries are proving to be just as important for 21st century energy. California has brought so many onto the grid that they the state has run on solar for more than a day, with charged-during-daylight batteries...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January — including during Winter Storm Fern. So says Canary Media in this story The 132-megawatt South Fork Wind farm, which delivers power to Long Island,...
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