by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
You have probably heard the phrase “data is not the plural of anecdote,” meaning that evidence which has been gathered systematically is far more valuable than a collection of individual stories. I certainly have heard it, and I have used it myself, but I didn’t...
by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
A new paper from two Dartmouth researchers looked at snowpack records in March over the 1981–2020 period in 169 major Northern Hemisphere river basins and found a disturbing trend: We show a generalizable and highly nonlinear temperature sensitivity of snowpack, in...
by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The Burgess Power Plant in Berlin, which has been at the center of a long debate over whether New Hampshire should subsidize plants that burn wood to produce power, has entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy because it says Eversource isn’t paying it for power. It says...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
ISO-New England, the folks who run the six-state power grid, have announced results for the latest capacity auction, which bribes – er, sorry, pays power plants a fixed amount regardless of their output. the system is designed to make sure there will be enough...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Feb. 11. *** Fluid Administration Apparatus Assembly DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED...
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