by David Brooks | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
(UPDATE: This story got picked up by Google so a lot of non-local comments are attached, most of which say “Just allow more hunters!” – but the number of people with hunting licenses in NH has gone down for decades. It’s not that big a part of...
by David Brooks | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
Solar is the driving force of the energy transition but batteries are proving to be just as important for 21st century energy. California has brought so many onto the grid that they the state has run on solar for more than a day, with charged-during-daylight batteries...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January — including during Winter Storm Fern. So says Canary Media in this story The 132-megawatt South Fork Wind farm, which delivers power to Long Island,...
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
A company called Rotor is working to develop an autonomous helicopter, or at least a remotely-controlled one, in buildings at the former Daniel Webster College in Nashua. As I noted in a 2024 article (here), they’re an MIT spinoff and Nashua was the closest...
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has so many hiking trails that if stretched out, they’d reach California and partway back, but one small section is drawing attention right now — a reminder that these “natural” paths that make life in the Granite State so delightful require a ridiculous...
by David Brooks | Feb 9, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
early January, representatives from Mount Washington Observatory (MWOBS), Vaisala, and the Omni Mount Washington Resort collaborated to install New Hampshire’s first ground-based scanning LiDAR. The Vaisala WindCube 200S Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR), located...