by David Brooks | Feb 4, 2016 | Blog
One-third of the electricity produced in America last year came from burning coal (including from three plants in New Hampshire). That’s a lot, and it should be reduced – but on the glass-half-full side of things, it’s the lowest percentage since...
by David Brooks | Feb 3, 2016 | Blog
I’m looking through proposals for wind and solar projects (and transmission lines) to provide “clean energy” to southern New England, seeing if any of them are near me. The proposals are redacted – a fancy legal term meaning “we hid stuff...
by David Brooks | Feb 3, 2016 | Blog
Numberphile, an excellent video podcast about mathematics, explains how the biggest prime number was found, and how you can participate in the citizen-science project known as GIMP to find the next one. Check it out here. Bonus: Matt Parker has a great Australia...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2016 | Blog
We’ve been told for ages that efficiency is the (buzzword alert) “low-hanging fruit” of energy, and that it will save us money as well as save the planet blah blah blah. Because the savings require always-suspect predictions, however, this can be...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
Vermont does some pretty weird stuff, as we all know, but recently it did something that was both weird and geeky: Studying whether to run its government using the technology behind bitcoin. The answer was “no,” but not because it was a silly question. National...
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