by David Brooks | May 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
In the course of my career I have written several articles when an animal (squirrel, hawk, something else that I forget) gets into an electrical system and blows out power to thousands of people. Here’s an example. Spring is prime animals-screw-up-power season,...
by David Brooks | May 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has had makerspaces for almost a decade, so the first one and by most measures the biggest wants to celebrate. MakeIt Labs in Nashua is holding its first regional festival next month. MakeIt Fest will have representatives from New Hampshire makerspaces...
by David Brooks | May 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: New Hampshire farmers are increasingly moving to more sustainable farming practices, with those adopting no-till, reduced-till, and cover crop practices dramatically increasing since 2012, according to the 2017 Census of Agriculture....
by David Brooks | May 20, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Even as New Hampshire faces another measles scare (an infected child in Keene), a North County hotel beloved by parts of New York’s Orthodox Jewish community is pushing back against that group’s anti-vaccination claims. As I report in the Monitor (read the...
by David Brooks | May 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Burgess BioPower, a wood-burning electricity plant in the North County city of Berlin, has gotten a $500,000 state grant to heat a greenhouse for vegetables with its waste heat. From a press release: The recovered energy will be used to heat a state-of-the-art, $25...
by David Brooks | May 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Microgrids – large-ish collections of buildings that can power themselves for at least a while independently of the main power grid – are seen as one of the ways that the electric system can cope with the new reality of renewables and distributed energy....
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