by David Brooks | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
New England’s last coal-fired power plant, Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H., has won yet another year of guaranteed funding ($750K per month, roughly) under the annual forward capacity market, but there are signs that cheap power from renewables might be started...
by David Brooks | Mar 22, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m always slightly dubious of reports about the economic and job-creation effect of research grants in any geographic area because it depends on a lot of assumptions. With that in mind … The National Institutes of Health says New Hampshire received $115...
by David Brooks | Mar 22, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
News subtitle A long-standing theorem in the study of American politics holds that candidates will run to the middle in an attempt to win support from the average voter. But a mathematical model developed by a team in Associate Professor of Mathematics Feng Fu’s...
by David Brooks | Mar 22, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
It takes a lot of incentive to get people to go out into the woods and shift 15,000 kilograms (16.5 tons) of snow around by hand. Fortunately, scientific curiosity is a great incentive. Earlier this month, six people spent three days at Hubbard Brook Experimental...
by David Brooks | Mar 21, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
My native thought was that the seafood industry would have less COVID-19 than most of us because they’re fishing, well separated and in the open air. But much of the industry involves processing fish indoors so that you can I can get those convenient fillets,...
by David Brooks | Mar 21, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
What explains the incredibly tight housing market in New Hampshire right now, with rental units almost impossible to find and houses snapped up the moment a For Sale sign appears? One possibility is that the market is being artificially squeezed by vacation homes or...