by David Brooks | May 20, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Happy birthday to me: The Granite Geek blog launched 15 years ago. I’m not sure exactly when it started, since almost everything before 2015 has disappeared in a haze of changing software/servers/owners. But we’ll pretend it’s this week. That’s...
by David Brooks | May 19, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Last year, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument became the east’s first “Dark Sky Sanctuary” (as I noted at the time). Now the nearby-ish 100-Mile Wilderness, infamous to Appalachian Trail through-hikers, has received a similar designation...
by David Brooks | May 18, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
As New Hampshire teeters on the edge of another drought (most of the state is “abnormally dry” right now), the above graphic shows what led us here: 2020 was really dry. This is chart of the flow rate of Smith River in Bristol over the course of spring and...
by David Brooks | May 18, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The online forum Reddit is infamous for some foul-minded communities, but earlier this month somebody posted a photo to its New Hampshire section that shook even hardened online veterans to the core. What was this appalling sight? It was a toilet seat in an outhouse;...
by David Brooks | May 18, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s something new in a parking lot on South Main Street. It’s a moon; specifically, our moon. “It works quite well, I think, that post with the moon on it. It really lets you see what happens … in an eclipse,” said Rob Kramer, who got permission to put up the tiny...
by David Brooks | May 17, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
What I believe is the first utility-scale electricity-storage project in New Hampshire is getting turned on: a 2.45 MW battery alongside a solar farm in Moultonborough. A Here’s the announcement from New Hampshire Electric Cooperative: The 2.45 megawatt (MW) /...
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