by David Brooks | Feb 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The most intriguing clean-tech story in New Hampshire these days is the secretive-ish company moving into a closed mill in Groveton, where it says it has a new technology can use water power to create hydrogen cleanly. (Here’s my last story on it.) This is cool...
by David Brooks | Feb 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Making electricity in New England is going to keep getting cheaper, judging from the results of the latest regional auction for power production three years down the road. The 14th annual Forward Capacity Auction, in which firms predict the cost of...
by David Brooks | Feb 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Recently I flew to D.C. to visit my family and had to get up at 4:30 a.m. to make my flight in Manchester because the next flight was way too late. Between yawns, I muttered deprecations about American Airlines all day. Vikrant Vaze, an assistant professor of...
by David Brooks | Feb 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(Update: In response to this piece, a former colleague noted that he has described the Iowa caucuses as “ranked-choice voting presented as performative dance” – which is such a great line that I had to include it here.) Here in New Hampshire we...
by David Brooks | Feb 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Maine might be the nation’s leader in alternative voting systems, since it is the first place to hold them for statewide races as we’ve discussed many times (including at Science Cafe N.H. in Concord in January). But that doesn’t mean everybody is...
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