by David Brooks | Mar 11, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
From Axios (story is here): The Lower 48 states just experienced their warmest winter on record this year, with extreme temperature departures from average observed across the northern tier of the country, according to new NOAA data. According to NOAA, some of the...
by David Brooks | Mar 10, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
An electric-car-charging station has just been installed at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. Actually, that isn’t quite accurate. It’s really an electric-car-and-electric-plane-charging station. That might surprise you because there aren’t any electric...
by David Brooks | Mar 9, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire’s anti-solar-power legislature puts a cap of 5 MW on any municipal solar array, if it wants to be net metered (that is, paid for excess power sent into the grid). There’s no reason for this cap, which used to be just 1 MW, except that...
by David Brooks | Mar 8, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Here’s a statement I used to firmly believe but now realize is often wrong: “Government should not pick technology winners and losers.” It can be true, of course, but there are times when the representatives of “we the people” need to take the lead away from...
by David Brooks | Mar 7, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
All the annoying stuff we did as a result of COVID-19 appears to have had a side-effect, eliminating an entire strain of flu, reports CNN. (Full story is here) For 10 years, Americans have had access to flu shots that protect against four strains of the virus: two A...
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