by David Brooks | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
When it comes to New Hampshire’s forests, Bambi has a lot to answer for. “If you’re trying to manage and grow healthy, resilient forests, (deer) are a problem,” said Wendy Weisiger, managing forester for the Society for the Protection of New...
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 14, 2026 | Newsletter
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by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
A company called Rotor is working to develop an autonomous helicopter, or at least a remotely-controlled one, in buildings at the former Daniel Webster College in Nashua. As I noted in a 2024 article (here), they’re an MIT spinoff and Nashua was the closest...
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has so many hiking trails that if stretched out, they’d reach California and partway back, but one small section is drawing attention right now — a reminder that these “natural” paths that make life in the Granite State so delightful require a ridiculous...
by David Brooks | Feb 9, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
early January, representatives from Mount Washington Observatory (MWOBS), Vaisala, and the Omni Mount Washington Resort collaborated to install New Hampshire’s first ground-based scanning LiDAR. The Vaisala WindCube 200S Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR), located...