by David Brooks | Jun 20, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
With all due respect to meteorologists and their measurements, summer doesn’t really start until high schools graduate. Now that “Pomp and Circumstance” has been heard on football fields all over New Hampshire we can say the outdoor season is definitely here, which...
by David Brooks | Jun 20, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A few years back, as part of my drive to create a historical highway marker honoring the creation of the BASIC computer language, I complained that too many of New Hampshire’s highway historical markers focus on buildings, bridges and politicians; very...
by David Brooks | Jun 17, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the many ways we need to change society to reduce damage to the planet is to replace concrete and steel in buildings with engineered lumber, a.k.a. cross-laminated timber. That’s a term for panels or timbers made from layering small pieces of lumber in...
by David Brooks | Jun 17, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Alas, the company Highview Power has given up on a plan I wrote about in 2019 to develop a long-term energy storage project in northern Vermont that freezes and unfreezes air. This is the statement I got from the company when I asked for an update: As a UK-based...
by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
That intriguing startup in Maine that wants to grow kelp on sea buoys and then sink it as a way to remove carbon (mentioned a year ago) is facing a lot of questions, reports MIT Technology Review (article here). Among them: Several seaweed experts and marine...
by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A big (by New England standards) hydroponic greenhouse that uses combined heat and power from natural gas to grow lettuce – and later, maybe, tomatoes – is being built on a former landfill site in the city of Berlin, way up North of the Notches....
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