by David Brooks | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This weekend’s miserable weekend didn’t quite cause New England to set a new record for electricity production: We maxed out Sunday at 23,917 MW, shy of the weekend record of 24,688 back in 2013, and well short of the all-time high of 28,130 MW on a...
by David Brooks | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Wild turkeys have become so common in New Hampshire since their reintroduction four decades ago, you wouldn’t biologists need any help keeping track. I see at least one virtually every time I drive anywhere. But New Hampshire Fish and Game would still like your...
by David Brooks | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I wrote today about an ambitious – maybe unrealistic – proposal for a carbon-negative development in southern New Hampshire, with as many as three dozen units and a farm. You can read about it here. The incentive, of course, is the climate emergency, an...
by David Brooks | Jul 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Biting deer flies have been a real pest – worse than usual – at my house this year. And since I’m a reporter, I get to whine about it in print! My story from the Monitor is here. It includes an entomologist’s comment that they don’t seem...
by David Brooks | Jul 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Every week I link to the Monitor’s list of patents issued to New Hampshire firms and people and to be honest, most of them are pretty boring. Then there’s Patent 10,344,760, by Dean Kamen (yes, him) and a Brookline man, assigned to Kamen’s firm DEKA...
by David Brooks | Jul 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A Maine company called Ocean renewable Power Co. says its in-river turbines, which look sort of like egg beaters with the axis perpendicular to the river flow, can produce hydropower without requiring dams or interfering with fish runs. The system will get a test in a...
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