by David Brooks | Mar 24, 2025 | Blog
As many people have been saying for years, big batteries in cars are a valuable resource that shouldn’t sit there doing nothing for the 95% of the time that cars are parked. Turning that obvious idea into reality isn’t easy, however. The technology...
by David Brooks | Mar 24, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Yesterday (Sunday, 3/23) the six-state New England electric grid set a record for largest production by utility – i.e., front-of-meter – solar (866 MW). Note that ISO-NE considers burning trash and burning wood for power as renewables, so it’s not...
by David Brooks | Mar 20, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular readers (hi, family!) know that I’ve long measured daily rain and snowfall for CoCoRaHS. With the Trump Team’s incoherent slashing of NOAA to benefit private weather companies, this collection of citizen-science data will become even more...
by David Brooks | Mar 20, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A friend pointed me to an interested Request for Proposal – RFP – from New Hampshire Fish and Game. (An RFP is the way a governments says “We want something done; if you want to do it submit a bid and we’ll see whether we want to hire...
by David Brooks | Mar 19, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
As you probably don’t know, since it’s not high on most people’s list of holidays, we are in the midst of Sunshine Week. This is an annual collaboration of journalists and various groups to shine a light (hence “sunshine”) on the importance of public records and open...
by David Brooks | Mar 19, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
We all know about cyanobacteria blooms in summer, when slimy stuff appears on the surface of ponds and lakes, releasing toxins that can hurt people or pets. New Hampshire Bulletin has a story about Partridge Lake near Littleton which is seeing these blooms even in...
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