by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Last week members of New Hampshire Electric Cooperative came very close to changing the structure of the group so that it would provide high-speed internet over fiber-optic cables as well as electricity over copper wires. This week the NHEC Board of Directors voted...
by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Salmon and other anadromous species (part of their life cycle is in fresh water, part is in salt water) are getting hammered from two directions, with dams and pollution and competition from bass and other problems making it hard to hatch in rivers, and warming,...
by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A higher percentage of traffic fatalities in New Hampshire involved speeding than was the case in any other state in recent years and the state’s death rate from speeding-related accidents was 50% higher than the national average, according to a new report. The...
by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I haven’t been warm-weather hiking in the White Mountains this year because first they were closed and then they were overwhelmed by (ooh, yuck) Massachusetts people, but I’ve been above treeline enough to know that it’s a whole different world. That’s the appeal, of...
by David Brooks | Jun 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
For a little while in 2001 New Hampshire was the center of the geek world when Dean Kamen and his Manchester-area R&D firm DEKA introduced the Segway, the self-balanced vehicle. It was like magic, using sensors and intelligent electric motors to stay upright. I...
by David Brooks | Jun 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The New England Power Generators Association, the industry group for 90% or so of the region’s electricity-producing plants, has released a report backing a carbon tax of $25 to $70 a ton as a way cut greenhouse gas emissions. Basically this would raise the...
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