by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
If you take a close look at the winter electricity forecast from the folks who run New England’s power grid – that sounds like fun, doesn’t it? – you’ll see an interesting line amid all the numbers and verbiage: “Forecasts take into account the 1,663 megawatts in...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2015 | Gov-Local, None
For people in the electricity business, there was only one thing surprising about Saturday’s power outage in Concord, in which an errant hawk left 13,000 customers in the dark: The culprit had feathers rather than fur. “About 15 percent of outages can be attributed to...
by David Brooks | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog
The best sentence I’ve read in a while is: “Birds can cause insulator flashovers due to their long streams of stringy, conductive and semi-liquid excrement.” I just had to share.* I’m working on a follow-up to the a 13,000-customer outage this...
by David Brooks | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog
Resistance to antibiotics is a big problem, and it’s satisfying to blame others – like Big Agriculture, which doles out low doses to animals as a way to increase weight gain, despite the fact that it harms society. Resistances is scary and getting scarier:...
by David Brooks | Dec 4, 2015 | Blog
Green Mountain Power, the Vermont utility that has received national attention for its very Vermont-ish approach to producing and distributing electricity, has taken another interesting step: It is partnering with Tesla to offer home storage batteries for...
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