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Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor reporter. Daily newspaper reporter for 43+ years. Emphasis on sci/tech, business, energy, environment. Granite Geek blog & newsletter (as in The Granite State) since 2006: granitegeek.org. [email protected]. he/him
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a Project 2025 heat pump xkcd.com/3099/

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It's pouring rain in much of New England but even so, the six-state power grid estimates there's 1,200 MW of rooftop solar power flowing in the grid, the same as a nuclear power plant (the top, yellow line shows reported load plus estimated BTM solar)

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Washington Post manages to sometimes do journalism about its billionaire overlord. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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This is a Vermont company. (Yes, Vermont!)

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I don't sew but this still seems bad. American capitalism really is failing in many ways.

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Getting vaccinated isn't just a personal-freedom decision

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According to historian John Ross, when President-elect John Kennedy asked outgoing President Eisenhower why D-Day had gone so well, Eisenhower replied, “Because we had better meteorologists than the Germans!"

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Techbros, like most of us, think politics is easy, done by people who can't get a real job. But getting large numbers of people to agree on difficult issues is just about the hardest thing that people do. That's why non-politicians often fail at politics. cleantechnica.com/2025/06/05/i...

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Worse than April and barely beat March with my rooftop panels.

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New England continues its slow crawl to 1 gig of utility solar installed - we're *very* close to 900 MW

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www.thedrive.com/news/the-las...

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A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for. Kudos, Sir.🌦️

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This is like "can't take vaccines because we don't know what's in them despite the fact that they're very, very regulated, but take plenty of wild supplements although we don't know what's in them because they're completely unregulated" thinking maybe "thinking" is the wrong word

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Whoa - congrats to WildType on FDA approval for its delicious cultivated salmon. No antibiotics, no microplastics, no pesticides, no dead fish. And it’s made in the USA - no need to import salmon from the ends of the earth! ampsinnovation.org/statement-fr...

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I get to write my own web headlines. www.concordmonitor.com/turtle-new-h...

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There are different ways, it seems, to get your kicks on route 66. www.vnews.com/Randolph-man...

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Newspapers don't get much crank snail-mail any more (except from prisoners) - so it was fun to see the recent arrival of a letter demanding a Constitutional Amendment that would require metric sizes to be listed before imperial measurements on all products in the U.S.

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Electricity wholesale prices in New England have been negative ever since the sun came up. Wish I had batteries and the state had modern power tariffs.

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May is usually my best solar month but this rainy/cloudy May was terrible: 20% less production that my previous worst May. It produced less than in April and barely more than in March! I might end up actually paying the electricity utility something this year.

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