by David Brooks | Dec 16, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The newest large-scale solar array in Concord, which got an official groundbreaking Monday, is good news from the cheap-electricity standpoint, but it’s also a lesson in the obstacles slowing our transition to 21st-century energy. The 5-megawatt array — the biggest...
by David Brooks | Dec 15, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
It took us a decade to build another power line to bring Quebec hydropower south into New England, but guess what: It’s currently selling power north (900MW at one point over the weekend) because a long drought in Quebec is clobbering their hydropower. Ironic...
by David Brooks | Dec 12, 2025 | Newsletter
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by David Brooks | Dec 9, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Bulletin has a story about the effect of the summer drought on wells – the news hook concerns a state program to help pay for new wells – that includes a discussion about an important fact: Due to geology, New England’s underground...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH Today has an article (here it is) about research into how small woodland mammals that depend on tree seeds for much of their food – shrews, voles, mice – react to the way wild seed crops (“mast”) fluctuate wildly from year to year. During...
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