by David Brooks | May 20, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
(“Clime” is a perfectly acceptable synonym for “climate” and is not a word I made up to fit the silly headline. Honest.) This is the time of year when that defining outdoor chore of homeownership, mowing the lawn, becomes a bit problematic. The...
by David Brooks | May 19, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire’s attorney general has joined his peers to tell Congress that they shouldn’t block state efforts to do what the federal government won’t do in terms of “protecting consumers from the harmful effects” of artificial intelligence. Attorney General John...
by David Brooks | May 19, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through May 18. *** System and Method for Clutter Suppression BAE SYSTEMS...
by David Brooks | May 15, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
NOTE; Bad link fixed ISO-New England, which oversees the six-state power grid, has released a report talking about ways energy use is changing. From their point of view the big difference is that peak usage is going to happen in winter, when solar power is low, which...
by David Brooks | May 14, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Note: This is my column in this week’s Monitor. A reader pointed me to a battery-storage system set up near hydropower on the Androscoggin river; part of it is in Maine, but it totals a whopping 30 MW so maybe this isn’t the biggest in the state after all....
by David Brooks | May 14, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Canary Media has a big story about a couple of interwoven programs being rolled out in Maine to boost heat-pump use in the state that has the highest percentage of homes heated by (ugh) heating oil, combined with efficiency and demand-response systems that will reduce...