by David Brooks | Nov 5, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Every few years attention returns to geothermal power in the U.S. – as with this excellent recent overview from Vox’s David Roberts, who says it is “”poised for a big breakout.” – which gives me an excuse to talk about how the...
by David Brooks | Nov 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Massachusetts has the country’s best right-to-repair law, although it only cover certain aspects of automotive repair information. On Tuesday it got better: Voters overwhelmingly enlarged it by a 75% to 25% margin, which is getting close to North Korea levels of...
by David Brooks | Nov 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Offshore wind farms – even dinky ones, like Block Island off Rhode Island – are very big engineering projects. And with very big engineering projects, you can get very big expensive mistakes. They’ve got one at Block Island, reports E&E News: The...
by David Brooks | Nov 2, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Wednesday morning note: This was written Monday and I should really rewrite it, since Collins won pretty handily in Maine and the push failed in Massachusetts, 55%-45%. But I’m beat and frazzled from the endless election, so it’ll have to stand. It’s not...
by David Brooks | Nov 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Ever since COVID-19 arrived and turned us all into amateur epidemiologists poring over hospital reports and debating antibody counts, we’ve really just wanted the answer to one question: “How worried should we be?” Right now, unfortunately, the answer is: Increasingly...
by David Brooks | Oct 30, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire, like much of the country, is full of small, no-longer-used dams that chup up streams and rivers into semi-connected pieces. this is bad for a lot of ecological reasons. Removing old dams can be expensive and often causes other problems, such as release...