by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Climate change is bringing more incidences of heavy rains – not necessarily more precipitation overall, just more concentrated downpours. That’s a problem for dams built under the assumption that past rainfall patterns will continue. I’ve got a story...
by David Brooks | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a bill in the N.H. legislature that seems to support at-home, behind-the-meter battery storage. I say “seems” because the devil is in the detais and when lawmaking and utility regulation overlap, the details get too detailed for me to be sure...
by David Brooks | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I can’t wait for Science Cafe New Hampshire to return to three-dimensional space, but there’s one advantage to a virtual SCNH viewed through the computer screen: Videos! At last night’s SCNH, that mean videos of flying cars! Woo-hoo! You can watch...
by David Brooks | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The New Hampshire Senate passed a whole slew of bills yesterday, trying to catch up with COVID-related delays. Included in an overall transportation bill was HB-1517, “An Act Relative to Roadable Aircraft.” I wrote about this bill last year, but it has...
by David Brooks | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Legal documents are notoriously hard to read but that’s not because lawyers are bad writers – not entirely, anyway. Anybody who has ever tried to write a document with some legal heft knows that it’s hard to develop wording that conveys exactly what...
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