by David Brooks | Nov 1, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
After a company has seen its flagship product launched to Jupiter, been purchased by a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate with plenty of plans for expansion, and had NASA double down on its main contract, choosing the next step might seem a bit complicated. Here’s an...
by David Brooks | Nov 1, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
ISO New England, the folks who run the six-stage power grid, had filed a proposal with FERC, the federal group that regulates electricity, for ways to integrate batteries and other fast-acting storage into its energy markets. Here’s their news release, and here...
by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Wood stoves are pretty old-fashioned in the era of solar power (and maybe the hydrogen economy!) But that doesn’t mean they can’t be improved, which is the idea of an annual contest sponsored by an industry group and held on the National Mall in...
by David Brooks | Oct 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
You know what New Hampshire needs? It needs a secret system to create hydrogen gas as the ultimate clean fuel, operating inside an old mill building next to a giant power-hungry data center that might be used to mine bitcoin. Sounds improbable, yes – but we just might...
by David Brooks | Oct 29, 2018 | Newsletter
Narcan is a wonder drug: It reverses drug overdoses so quickly that it’s called the Lazarus Drug (in John 11, Jesus brought a man called Lazarus back from the dead). But some people worry that it ends up doing as much harm as good. This is the “moral...