by David Brooks | Nov 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Employment Security release a report recently highlighting the state’s slow rate of population growth and how this is flummoxing economic systems that were created around the assumption that the number of customers and prospective employees will...
by David Brooks | Nov 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I stole that headline from this story on Vox, which notes that the referendum vote isn’t all that significant: “The proposal simply grants the California State Legislature the power to vote to change the clocks permanently. Any changes would need to start...
by David Brooks | Nov 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The Science Cafe New Hampshire sessions in Nashua and Concord are sort of related this month. On Wednesday, Nov. 14, in Nashua (The Riverwalk Cafe), they’ll talk about SETI, or the Seach for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. What’s real? What’s bunkum?...
by David Brooks | Nov 1, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
After a company has seen its flagship product launched to Jupiter, been purchased by a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate with plenty of plans for expansion, and had NASA double down on its main contract, choosing the next step might seem a bit complicated. Here’s an...
by David Brooks | Nov 1, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
ISO New England, the folks who run the six-stage power grid, had filed a proposal with FERC, the federal group that regulates electricity, for ways to integrate batteries and other fast-acting storage into its energy markets. Here’s their news release, and here...
by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Wood stoves are pretty old-fashioned in the era of solar power (and maybe the hydrogen economy!) But that doesn’t mean they can’t be improved, which is the idea of an annual contest sponsored by an industry group and held on the National Mall in...