by David Brooks | Oct 28, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Electric vehicles are so new that we have questions about how they’ll react to some situations, such as recovering from the weather disasters that increasingly hit in these climate-emergency days. After Hurricane Milton in Florida, despite wide ranging power...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm is one of the best pieces of energy news that we’ve had for a while – or, rather, it was until one of the blades broke and made a mess in the ocean. Inspection of all the other blades continues, reports the Boston...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
A Vermont company called Solaflect Energy is trying to make a business out of directly charging cars from a smallish (6 KW) solar array deployed in parking lots. Each unit has four chargers attached. Seven Days Vt has the story, which unlike a lot of popular press...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
People in all the New England states have been talking for a while about doing something different with time zones, usually dropping the twice-yearly switcheroo and sticking with one or the other of the possibilities. Nothing has come of it and I suspect nothing will...
by David Brooks | Oct 22, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: A new snow observer has been found! – and the new person learned of the post because of this article in the Concord Monitor If you’re one of those people who loves to brag or complain about how much snow you get – and since this is New Hampshire, of...
by David Brooks | Oct 21, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
We all know that the Gulf of Maine is warming fast, helping push lobsters north to cooler waters. (They’re already disappeared from Long Island Sound.) A new UMaine study finds that even if they stick around, their habits change. Whole article in phys.org is...
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