by David Brooks | May 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
(Subscribers to my free newsletter saw this yesterday.) Last week I mentioned an online Forbes article that riffed on a New Hampshire lawsuit over damages caused when a pizza was dropped by a delivery drone – an accident, and a lawsuit, that never actually...
by David Brooks | May 3, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I have a story in today’s Monitor about a project between Eversource Energy (PSNH to us NH old-timers) and Plymouth State University to extend and improve a project that Eversource has with Univ. Connecticut to focus weather forecasting to better predict power...
by David Brooks | May 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH news service: UNH’s Broadband Center of Excellence (BCoE) has awarded two grants to UNH researchers: one to a team that will bring the Internet of Things to water quality monitoring in the city of Nashua, and one to researchers who will create sensors to...
by David Brooks | May 1, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Most of the forests in northern New England stopped being logged in the early 20th century, so all the trees tend to be relatively uniform in age – like a city where everybody is 30 years old. This isn’t great for environmental diversity and, it turns...
by David Brooks | Apr 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
When I first started reporting, energy was a boring subject, dominated by ponderous utilities and stagnant technology – even the nuclear-power debate was largely settled (sorry, Clamshell Alliance). Then deregulation came along, and solar power, and climate...
by David Brooks | Apr 25, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
In 1993, which is a zillion years ago in technology time, a group of planners and designers in the city of Keene won a national award for their ideas of what local infrastructure was needed to get ready for electric vehicles. A quarter century later, they’re...