by David Brooks | Dec 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New England has more than enough electricity on hand even if extreme weather hits this winter, according to an estimate from the organization that runs the six-state power grid. The announcement, while not a surprise, is important because this is the first winter...
by David Brooks | Dec 3, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Many newspaper subscribers like to cut things out of the paper and mail them to each other so perhaps it’s not surprising that we got far more responses than I expected in our mock ranked-choice voting ballot of the Democratic primary. A total of 384 ballots...
by David Brooks | Dec 3, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
White-tail deer hunting season is in full swing, which means that Fish and Game wardens are yanking teeth from dead deer, bears, bobcat and moose and sending them to a lab in Montana. Why are they doing that, you ask? This story from September explains...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The state’s new community power law scares me. It should excite me because it takes a very New Hampshire-y approach to the vital issue of redesigning our entire electric system for a climate-changing world. The law, passed this summer, gives towns...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Good story (as usual) from Tux Turkel, Portland Press-Herald’s long-time energy writer, about the possibility of using excess power from Maine onshore wind farms, which are constrained by the grid, to generate hydrogen or methane that could then be shipped and...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Like all humans, I regard the things that I did as a teen and pre-teen to be the proper activities for those age groups and I scorn things that have become popular since then. Playing basketball on a team, for example, is normal but playing networked computer games on...
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