by David Brooks | Mar 25, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Note to punctuation geeks: Most style guides write it as AI without periods but I think that’s visually confusing – “Who is this Albert guy you’re writing about?” – so I do it this way. If you’re wondering whether the technologies...
by David Brooks | Mar 25, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
If you’re an early riser, Saturday will give you a chance to see a partial solar eclipse just as the sun is rising. While it won’t be as dramatic as last year’s total eclipse, the combination of the almost-complete eclipse with sunrise could be spectacular. “This one...
by David Brooks | Mar 24, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
As many people have been saying for years, big batteries in cars are a valuable resource that shouldn’t sit there doing nothing for the 95% of the time that cars are parked. Turning that obvious idea into reality isn’t easy, however. The technology...
by David Brooks | Mar 24, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Yesterday (Sunday, 3/23) the six-state New England electric grid set a record for largest production by utility – i.e., front-of-meter – solar (866 MW). Note that ISO-NE considers burning trash and burning wood for power as renewables, so it’s not...
by David Brooks | Mar 20, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular readers (hi, family!) know that I’ve long measured daily rain and snowfall for CoCoRaHS. With the Trump Team’s incoherent slashing of NOAA to benefit private weather companies, this collection of citizen-science data will become even more...
by David Brooks | Mar 20, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A friend pointed me to an interested Request for Proposal – RFP – from New Hampshire Fish and Game. (An RFP is the way a governments says “We want something done; if you want to do it submit a bid and we’ll see whether we want to hire...