by David Brooks | Aug 20, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Concord, N.H., celebrated the eventual arrival of electric school buses Wednesday thanks to federal programs designed to replace the diesel buses that have been polluting schoolyards and streets for decades. The key word, however, is “eventual.” The three buses...
by David Brooks | Aug 20, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
This is my column in the Monitor today. Note the NIMBY shot at the end. This column concerns a New Hampshire housing development that will be net-zero, something the world really needs, but before we get to details, let’s face facts: Your first reaction is that it...
by David Brooks | Aug 19, 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 Aug. 18 *** System, Method, and Apparatus for Estimating Liquid Delivery...
by David Brooks | Aug 16, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
ISO-NE has a good explained about “behind-the-meter solar” – there are more aspects to it than I realized. You can read it here. In particular, I have used BTM as synonymous with rooftop solar like mine, which sends no information to the grid about...
by David Brooks | Aug 16, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
In 2021, I wrote about an unlikely ecological event in a city park in Manchester: Botanists will soon announce the official extinction of an inconspicuous plant with the inconspicuous name of smooth slender crabgrass that once lived only in Rock Rimmon Park. It will...
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