by David Brooks | Sep 17, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
When it comes to electric vehicles, it feels like our brains translate v-e-h-i-c-l-e as “car.” We shouldn’t. As they can tell you at Lancaster’s Transfer Station, removing an engine that spins by blowing up oxygenated aerosols and replacing...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Per-capita emissions have fallen by 2/5 in New Hampshire over the past 20 years, better than the national average, according to estimates from the federal Energy Information Agency. (The report is here) Our biggest source of emissions is transportation, as is the case...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Maine Public has a story (here it is) about efforts to save the Bicknell’s thrush, which nests in balsam fir trees on the alpine climate of the Northeast and winters down in the Caribbean. The population is declining about 4% a year, which is a lot. For reasons...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Sept. 14. *** Powered Helmet Accessory Rail With Slot Interface WILCOX...
by David Brooks | Sep 11, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Eversource, by far New Hampshire’s biggest electric utility, has begun a big problem to cut down dead and dying ash trees near power lines. The trees, of course, are being wiped out by the invasive insect emerald ash borer. From the press release: The work will...
by David Brooks | Sep 9, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Pretty much everybody who has ever driven in New Hampshire has accidentally hit and killed something at one time or another. Usually, the casualty is a chipmunk or squirrel or frog, but more than 1,000 people face a bigger problem every year because they hit a deer....