by David Brooks | May 15, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
NOTE; Bad link fixed ISO-New England, which oversees the six-state power grid, has released a report talking about ways energy use is changing. From their point of view the big difference is that peak usage is going to happen in winter, when solar power is low, which...
by David Brooks | May 14, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Note: This is my column in this week’s Monitor. A reader pointed me to a battery-storage system set up near hydropower on the Androscoggin river; part of it is in Maine, but it totals a whopping 30 MW so maybe this isn’t the biggest in the state after all....
by David Brooks | May 14, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Canary Media has a big story about a couple of interwoven programs being rolled out in Maine to boost heat-pump use in the state that has the highest percentage of homes heated by (ugh) heating oil, combined with efficiency and demand-response systems that will reduce...
by David Brooks | May 14, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Yes, you can help save the planet, nurture the pollinators and strengthen the food chain from the comfort of your couch! Come learn about a growing movement called “No Mow May” where letting your yard grow wild provides a critical bridge for insect...
by David Brooks | May 12, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
In 2018 I wrote about a company called Freight Farms that had grew lettuce for Concord’s Marriott Hotel inside one of its hydroponic trailers. It was one of several indoor-crop-growing startups that garnered a lot of attention at the time. Alas, it just went...
by David Brooks | May 12, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The weekly list of New Hampshire-related patents has been on hold because of problems caused by Doge team’s uninformed “efficiency” (ha!) drive amid federal agencies. Targeted News Service has fixed the problem. (Links to each patent can be found...
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