by David Brooks | Jun 26, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Road salt runoff is a big problem in cold climates, killing all sorts of plants and making life tough for aquatic beasties. There are constant efforts to use less of it or find alternatives, like brine, but the reality is that we’re going to continue dumping it...
by David Brooks | Jun 26, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The tornado that touched down in Dublin on Sunday was unusual but far from unique since New Hampshire generally sees one or two of the twisters each year. Sunday’s storm had 90 mph winds and was the lowest category of tornado, known as EF1 on a five-point scale....
by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Vineyard Wind has snuck past South Fork Wind and is now the nation’s biggest offshore wind farm, at 136 MW capacity. (South Fork is 132). Story is here. It seems like the project is a little behind schedule; it won’t be up to full 800+ Mw by the end of the...
by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Changing your farming technique to improve long-term soil health is a great idea, of course, but farming is complicated enough without adding another variable to the equation, so I suspect it’s done very often. A study from some Dartmouth professors found an...
by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a surprising backstory to the latest nasty invasive insect to arrive in New Hampshire, the browntail moth: We already eradicated it once. But we can’t do it again. At least, we can’t do it again in the same way. The browntail moth has just been found on the...
by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The process for adding power plants to the grid, making sure that the grid operators can factor in the electricity they supply while balancing the back-and-forth of power needs and production, grew over decades to serve the old model of relatively few large plants...
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