by David Brooks | Mar 28, 2025 | Newsletter
If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter and want to subscribe, add your email at the Granite Geek blog: granitegeek.concordmonitor.com Suggestions or comments? Drop me a line: dbrooks@cmonitor.com I’m on Bluesky and Mastodon (the newsie.social server) these...
by David Brooks | Mar 27, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A nice photo package (see it here) from Dartmouth College about a test to increase carbon capture in soils: Most carbon in soil is eaten by microbes and respired back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, contributing to global warming. As part of her culminating...
by David Brooks | Mar 26, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Green Car Reports has a story about a study of the effect of weather on EV range in various states – and it says Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont are the most affected. The whole story is here. Vaisala, a Finnish instrumented measurement firm, analyzed the...
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...