by David Brooks | Apr 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
NHPR reports that Eversource, the state’s biggest electric utility by far, is joining the Electric Highway Coalition, an agreement by utilities in other parts of the country to support more electric car charging stations. They’re the first New England...
by David Brooks | Apr 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The town of Derry has turned off a couple of electric-vehicle chargers near its downtown because they’ve gotten too expensive to run. This article in the Eagle-Tribune is short on details, but I assume the issue is demand charges – extra fees the utility...
by David Brooks | Apr 15, 2021 | Blog
The population density of moose in some parts of New England might be so high that it is helping winter ticks thrive, and the ticks are sickening and killing off moose. A solution, say some wildlife biologists, is to increase the hunting season. Shoot them to save...
by David Brooks | Apr 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The Federal Communications Commission is urging people to download their app onto their phones and test speeds and latency in their home’s internet connection, to gather real data about the nation’s broadband. You can see their statement here on press...
by David Brooks | Apr 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Today’s ironic/funny/painful story of life in the Climate Emergency: A long-running weather station on Cape Cod that gathers data to study the climate is being abandoned because the land its sits on is falling into the sea....
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