by David Brooks | Dec 3, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
White-tail deer hunting season is in full swing, which means that Fish and Game wardens are yanking teeth from dead deer, bears, bobcat and moose and sending them to a lab in Montana. Why are they doing that, you ask? This story from September explains...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The state’s new community power law scares me. It should excite me because it takes a very New Hampshire-y approach to the vital issue of redesigning our entire electric system for a climate-changing world. The law, passed this summer, gives towns...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Good story (as usual) from Tux Turkel, Portland Press-Herald’s long-time energy writer, about the possibility of using excess power from Maine onshore wind farms, which are constrained by the grid, to generate hydrogen or methane that could then be shipped and...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Like all humans, I regard the things that I did as a teen and pre-teen to be the proper activities for those age groups and I scorn things that have become popular since then. Playing basketball on a team, for example, is normal but playing networked computer games on...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
While I was on vacation, New Hampshire released an RFP (Request for Proposals) to build an @NH_OSI and the @nhdes have released an RFP for an electric vehicle charging stations along high-travel routes. NHPR notes that they “may or may not be free to use.”...
by David Brooks | Nov 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Bald eagles, as I’m sure you know, are making quite the comeback in New Hampshire (along with much of North America). New Hampshire Audubon and the Loon Preservation Committee wondered what effect this large fish-eating predator was having on another iconic...
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