by David Brooks | Dec 27, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
In geekdom there are certain phrases which carry a magical aura. “Municipal broadband” is one of them. The idea of a community banding together to spread high-speed internet brings warm and fuzzy feelings to many a techie, especially those with gray hair and fading...
by David Brooks | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m off for most of the next week. To celebrate the arbitrary measurement point for the planet’s trip about the sun, and generate some easy content, let’s remind ourselves of some of the wonderful things we’ve learned about via GraniteGeek this...
by David Brooks | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Several times in my career I have attempted to explain why the shortest day of the year (the winter solstice, which is tomorrow) has neither the latest sunrise nor the earliest sunset of the year. Judging from subsequent reader questions, I haven’t had a ton of...
by David Brooks | Dec 19, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the issues with distributed energy, like solar panels, is that it’s hard to count because it’s – well, distributed. Even ISO-New England, the folks who run the six-state power grid and who have a great interest in knowing how many of these...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Foster’s Daily Democrat, the daily newspaper in Dover, has an interesting story (read it here) about something interesting in the brand-new Dover High School: It has no urinals in the boys’ restrooms, and no shared showers – they’re all...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Let’s face it: Salmon are never coming back to the Merrimack River. But don’t despair, you fans of fish with weird life cycles: Herring are doing so well that we might be seeing them in Concord again. Plus, shad aren’t doing too badly, either. And American eels, which...