by David Brooks | Jan 16, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
New England has so much rooftop solar (more than 7000 MW installed) that the once-rare “duck curve” day – when we buy less electricity mid-day than at night because we’re using our own solar power – is becoming ordinary. New England ISO,...
by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
As you probably know, 4.78 percent of Concord’s total surface area is made up of water. Wait – you didn’t know that? Then you haven’t read Wikipedia in the past 23 years, because this intriguing tidbit has been part of the article about Concord since halfway...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
The Monadnock Ledger has a story about the sixth anniversary of Antrim Wind Farm, a relatively small (28.8 MW, 9 turbines) operation. It faced a lot of the usual opposition and took four years to get approval, part of the reason there are only three wind farms of any...
by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s not always easy doing public outreach for a research university. Sometimes you have to write articles about things that don’t really resonate with the general audience, like Isothermal titration calorimetry. It certainly doesn’t resonate with...
by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
Beavers are awesome engineers, as everybody knows. Sometimes that’s great. Sometimes it’s not. The Monitor has a story about a long-running right in the town of Bow over a beaver dam and how it is shaping New Hampshire law – you can read it here....
by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
Day of A.I., the MIT-backed project to educate teachers and students about the technologies misleadingly known as artificial intelligence, has a new classroom game called A.I. Trivia Time. From their press release: Think of AI Trivia Time as a brain break with a...
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