by David Brooks | Jul 27, 2018 | Newsletter
At the moment, offshore wind farms are the best way to create very large scale renewable energy, both because the technology is pretty robust and because sticking them in the ocean reduces the NIMBY problem that bedevils any large-scale construction. (Onshore wind...
by David Brooks | Jul 27, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
If you’re a wikipedia wonk, the sort of person who reads not just the articles but the associated Talk pages where editors discuss the article, you might have seen the claim earlier this week on the Talk page for Mt. Washington that the peak broke its all-time...
by David Brooks | Jul 27, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
We’ve put a couple more of our low-budget (i.e., no budget) Granite Geek podcast series, in which Features Editor Sarah Pearson asks me to talk about some story I’ve written recently and I blather on and on until she turns off the mic in desperation. (She...
by David Brooks | Jul 24, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(This is my Concord Monitor column this week. If you want to hear me talk about it, and hear a colleague tell me that the premise of the whole story is baloney, check the podcast we made. It’s only a few minutes long.) I have some shocking news. You may want to...
by David Brooks | Jul 24, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The New England power grid did quite well during the week-long heat wave in early July – there was no strain on moving power around, thanks to the gazillion dollars worth of upgrades that have been built in the past few years, and no strain on power supply, and...
by David Brooks | Jul 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the things you can do on Twitter easily is run a poll, so I ran one last week asking this important question: You get to work and realize you have left either your phone or your lunch at home (but not both). Which would upset you more? I assumed the answer...