by David Brooks | Nov 20, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Off the coast of Rhode Idland, Revolution Wind. a joint venture between Ørsted and Eversource, has started building a 704 MW wind farm in Rhode Island Sound south of Point Judith. It will send power to Rhode Island and Connecticut. Quonset, R.I., is going to be a...
by David Brooks | Nov 20, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Many ginkgo trees are famous for dropping all their leaves at once – whomp! – after the first hard frost. There’s one tree on the Durham campus of UNH and people have kept records on its leaf-drop day since the 1970s. This year’s drop was the...
by David Brooks | Nov 20, 2023 | 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 Nov. 19. *** Guided Munition Systems for Detecting Off-Axis Targets BAE...
by David Brooks | Nov 20, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Audubon has a long post responding to some people who are alarmed that they’ve seen very few birds at their feeders this year, especially this fall. The post is here. tl’dr – it’s not avian flu, it’s this year’s...
by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
NH Public Radio’s Todd Bookman has a long, detailed piece out today (here it is) detailing the complicated (and maybe eyebrow-raising) financial benefits that inventor Dean Kamen’s private firms get from the federally funded non-profit ARMI: The federal...
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