by David Brooks | May 18, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s something new in a parking lot on South Main Street. It’s a moon; specifically, our moon. “It works quite well, I think, that post with the moon on it. It really lets you see what happens … in an eclipse,” said Rob Kramer, who got permission to put up the tiny...
by David Brooks | May 17, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
What I believe is the first utility-scale electricity-storage project in New Hampshire is getting turned on: a 2.45 MW battery alongside a solar farm in Moultonborough. A Here’s the announcement from New Hampshire Electric Cooperative: The 2.45 megawatt (MW) /...
by David Brooks | May 16, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
In an update on the bitcoin money-laundering charge against Ian Freeman, the Union-Leader points to apparent discrepancy between how New Hampshire and federal regulators look at bitcoin kiosks, which are central to the case: In 2017, the New Hampshire Banking...
by David Brooks | May 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
(Too bad – I kind of liked them. They’re like the weighted blankets people use to feel comfortable sleeping.) Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health will no longer use heavy lead aprons to shield patients from radiation during X-rays because they have been found to...
by David Brooks | May 13, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Vermont’s biggest utility will let 200 of its customers use their home batteries to help balance the regional power grid, in the first such program in New England and perhaps the first in the country. Green Mountain Power (GMP) said Thursday the pilot program...
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