by David Brooks | Oct 16, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
ISO-NE, the folks who run the six-state power grid, says we had 1,332 MW of wind power on the grid at about 7 am. Thursday. That represented almost 10% of the total system load at the time and was a record output – but only by 17 MW. Worse, it was less than 100...
by David Brooks | Oct 14, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
In many aspects of life, the old ways are the good ways. Building a path to hike up a mountain is not, however, one of those aspects. “We love our old historic trails but there are better ways to lay them out,” said Erik Samia, Trails Training Program Supervisor for...
by David Brooks | Oct 14, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
I was planning on doing a pre-ski-season story on the effect of the drought on ski area’s snowmaking, but Molly Rains of the New Hampshire Bulletin did it first, and did it much better. Her article (you can read it here) touches on the possibility that for a...
by David Brooks | Oct 13, 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 Oct. 12. Plasma Arc Torch HYPERTHERM, INC., Hanover, New Hampshire has been...
by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH researchers are examining the long-term ecological effects of the chestnut blight, which in the course of a couple decades a century ago wiped out one of the dominant tree species on the entire Eastern Seaboard, to see if it can help them predict what will happen...
by David Brooks | Oct 10, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A motorcyclist from Gilford may be the first person in the state prosecuted under a new law making “deepfakes” a crime – in this case, audio fakery rather than video. The story in the Laconia Daily Sun says the 21-year-old made “an audio...