by David Brooks | Nov 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Offshore wind farms – even dinky ones, like Block Island off Rhode Island – are very big engineering projects. And with very big engineering projects, you can get very big expensive mistakes. They’ve got one at Block Island, reports E&E News: The...
by David Brooks | Nov 2, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Wednesday morning note: This was written Monday and I should really rewrite it, since Collins won pretty handily in Maine and the push failed in Massachusetts, 55%-45%. But I’m beat and frazzled from the endless election, so it’ll have to stand. It’s not...
by David Brooks | Nov 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Ever since COVID-19 arrived and turned us all into amateur epidemiologists poring over hospital reports and debating antibody counts, we’ve really just wanted the answer to one question: “How worried should we be?” Right now, unfortunately, the answer is: Increasingly...
by David Brooks | Oct 30, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire, like much of the country, is full of small, no-longer-used dams that chup up streams and rivers into semi-connected pieces. this is bad for a lot of ecological reasons. Removing old dams can be expensive and often causes other problems, such as release...
by David Brooks | Oct 29, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A firm in Bangor, Maine says it is “close” to building a biorefinery that will turn wood waste from paper and lumber mills into liquid fuel that would be sold by New Hampshire’s Sprague Resources. As reported by the Portland Press-Herald’s Tux...
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