by David Brooks | Sep 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Between Eversource’s plan to use battery backup on an entire town instead of building a new transmission line, and Sunrun’s 20 MW solar-and-battery system that won a bid in the New England capacity market, large-scale battery backup is starting to be a...
by David Brooks | Sep 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A Concord resident and UNH law school professor has written a book called “Sharenthood” that I assumed would mostly be a screed telling parents not to put so much stuff on Facebook about their kids. It covers that, but a lot more, as I mention in my story...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: A debilitating, often fatal fungal disease has been discovered in wild North American porcupines in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, according to the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. UNH...
by David Brooks | Sep 20, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the most worrisome feedback mechanism in global warming is the release of methane – a very potent, if relatively short-lived, greenhouse gas – that’s trapped in arctic permafrost. As the poles warm the methane is released, leading to more...
by David Brooks | Sep 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
How do you train for a major airplane accident without actually having a major airplane accident? Put two school buses end to end, cover them with tarps and crank up a smoke machine, fill them with nursing students acting out various injuries (including some makeup...
by David Brooks | Sep 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
You probably know about the Frank Lloyd Wright house in Manchester, but there’s a second one made of concrete blocks. It is a “Usonian Automatic,” a very rare example of a failed attempt by Wright to create cheap but good-looking homes on a sort of...
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