by David Brooks | Oct 21, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
If only greenhouse gases were fabric dyes, it would be a lot easier to limit climate change. I say that because of stories I’ve heard from old-timers who tell of the days before New England’s textile industry moved south, when you could guess what was being done in...
by David Brooks | Oct 21, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
OK, that headline is a bit of a stretch. What’s true is that New England white oak “contains more trans-whiskey lactones and fewer tannins than Midwest white oak” which might be of interest to particular brewers or distillers looking to store their...
by David Brooks | Oct 21, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Governors of five New England states have called for big changes in the regional electricity market, as well as the transmission planning process and how the New England power system operator is run. There are, of course, six New England states. No prizes for guessing...
by David Brooks | Oct 16, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
According to reports, 88.4% of New Hampshire Electric Cooperative members approved adding broadband internet service to its core function. That far surpassed the 67% needed to change the bylaws and turnout was about 10,000, which I’m told was “a whopping...
by David Brooks | Oct 16, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Green Mountain Power’s pilot program in which the utility controls Tesla Powerwall batteries in hundreds of customer homes to create a virtual statewide energy-storage system as gotten the official stamp of approval: Regulators have given it a...
by David Brooks | Oct 16, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(Regular readers: Yes, you’ve seen this column before. But it’s timely and it’s not easy right now to find items that don’t involve COVID or the election.) In 2009, in the spirit of finding something to write about when news gets slow over the...