by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
ISO-New England, the folks who run the six-state power grid, have announced results for the latest capacity auction, which bribes – er, sorry, pays power plants a fixed amount regardless of their output. the system is designed to make sure there will be enough...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Feb. 11. *** Fluid Administration Apparatus Assembly DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Nice piece from New Hampshire bulletin about yet another way that climate change problems escalate: For the utilities that provide residents and businesses with electricity and gas services, it’s an escalating reality they’re considering in their strategic plans. From...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe New Hampshire, which ran in Nashua and Concord for more than a decade before COVID, then restarted in Nashua only to be squelched when the bar closed, is reborn! I am not involved with it any more, but this just arrived in my inbox: Science Cafe New...
by David Brooks | Feb 6, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The robocalls that imitated President Joe Biden telling people not to bother voting in New Hampshire’s presidential primary were generated by a Texas-based public relations firm called Life Corporation “and an individual named Walter Monk,” according to the state...
by David Brooks | Feb 6, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Scientists like to say that their work usually proceeds two steps forward and one step back. But sometimes that’s optimistic. Case in point: A scientific effort I’ve been writing about since 2010, the work to bring back the American chestnut tree to our forests, has...