by David Brooks | Jun 17, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Alas, the company Highview Power has given up on a plan I wrote about in 2019 to develop a long-term energy storage project in northern Vermont that freezes and unfreezes air. This is the statement I got from the company when I asked for an update: As a UK-based...
by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
That intriguing startup in Maine that wants to grow kelp on sea buoys and then sink it as a way to remove carbon (mentioned a year ago) is facing a lot of questions, reports MIT Technology Review (article here). Among them: Several seaweed experts and marine...
by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A big (by New England standards) hydroponic greenhouse that uses combined heat and power from natural gas to grow lettuce – and later, maybe, tomatoes – is being built on a former landfill site in the city of Berlin, way up North of the Notches....
by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The U.S. Geological Survey recently announced more than $4 million in grants for states to preserve “vital geologic data” but, as I found after checking, it won’t help the 19 tons of rock cores drilled beneath Conway i n1975. They are still being...
by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
News that came out Tuesday about electricity prices in miserably hot Texas and in delightfully temperate New Hampshire reflected the biggest advantage of renewable energy, one that’s often overlooked: The fuel is free. Texas is sweltering under an unexpectedly early...
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
As the United States belatedly gets on the electric-vehicle bandwagon and people everywhere are scrambling to find cars on dealers’ lots, would-be buyers in New Hampshire are facing a self-imposed obstacle with a clumsy name: ZEV/LEV. That acronym, standing for...