by David Brooks | Nov 5, 2015 | Blog
A startling statement from ISO-New England, the folks who oversee the six-state New England electricpower grid: With growing levels of photovoltaic (PV) and energy-efficiency (EE) resources, the 10-year forecast of demand shows the summer peak growing at 0.6% per year...
by David Brooks | Nov 5, 2015 | Blog
PETERBOROUGH – The state’s biggest solar-power facility gets turned on Friday at the Peterborough Wastewater Treatment plant. The facility falls just short of a megawatt, at 942 kilowatts, and is located on five acres of former wastewood lagoons. It has about 3,100...
by David Brooks | Nov 5, 2015 | Blog
On NHPR this week I talked about the UNH research that explained anomalous readings from Voyager 1 and showed that it is, indeed, passing through the edge of the solar system (for certain definitions of “edge”). Listen or read the transcript right...
by David Brooks | Nov 4, 2015 | Blog
In response to an article I wrote about a New Hampshire pollinator conference on Monday, I was notified by a reader about an interesting Canadian company that has developed a system which it claims will let wild bees deliver precise amounts of pesticide or other...
by David Brooks | Nov 2, 2015 | Blog
A story on the Boston Globe, part of its specialty Stat publication, tells of a pushback by some doctors against the anti-vaccination movement: More than 20 percent of pediatricians “always” or “often” turn away families who decline to get their babies vaccinated,...
by David Brooks | Nov 2, 2015 | Blog
The above chart shows my measurements during the “water year” of Oct. 1 through Oct. 1 (an arbitrary period used by meteorologists to analyze precipitation). I make measurements as part of CoCoRaHS, a regional citizen-science precipitation-gathering group....
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