by David Brooks | Oct 7, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The spiny water flea has been found in Newfound Lake, reports New Hampshire Bulletin (story here). It’s already in Winnisquam and Winnepesaukee lakes. One impact of a spiny water flea invasion stems from the animals’ voracious appetites. Upon arriving in a lake,...
by David Brooks | Oct 6, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A New Hampshire state senator has filed an LSR (legislative service request, sort of a place-holder for a future bill) for “portable solar generation devices” which I believe means small plug-in solar panels, a.k.a. balcony solar. As I noted last month,...
by David Brooks | Oct 1, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The NY Times has a big article about the improvement in fast charging stations along U.S. highways with excellent interactive maps. (Paywall-less version is here) Most of the highways in the Northeast are packed with chargers (although it gets sketchy going up to...
by David Brooks | Sep 30, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Six decades after it began, coal-fired electricity is officially gone from New England following the shut-down of Merrimack Station in Bow, the region’s last power plant of its kind. Merrimack Station, which started in 1960 during a wave of new coal-fired electricity...
by David Brooks | Sep 30, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
f you want to stay a skeptic about the various technologies misleadingly called “artificial intelligence,” you probably shouldn’t chat with Greg Dorfman during an A.I. presentation. “It’s a real tool and I’m hoping to make it a better tool,” Dorfman told me in no...
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