by David Brooks | Jul 10, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
If you can’t buy an electric version of your company’s vehicle, maybe you can take the vehicle and retrofit it to become electric. That’s the route Breezeline has taken in what they say is the first conversion of a bucket truck to electricity, both the motor and...
by David Brooks | Jul 5, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Inverse, a news site, has a long detailed piece about efforts to develop a Lyme vaccine for humans, including the tantalizing possibility of a short-lasting but quick-to-take-effect vaccine using monoclonal antibodies and the need for better tests. Even if you know a...
by David Brooks | Jul 5, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
This column should have been written 10 years ago. In 2013, construction was about to start on Cape Wind, a 450-megawatt wind farm 7 miles south of Cape Cod. It was an exciting moment: European nations had been constructing wind farms in the North Sea for 22 years at...
by David Brooks | Jul 5, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s been so wet in New Hampshire since May that it’s easy to think we’re protected from wildfire risk, but looking north shows that this is foolish. Eastern Canada is a place where raging wildfires didn’t happen until suddenly they did, and...
by David Brooks | Jul 5, 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 July 2. *** Cost Effective Cartridge for a Plasma Arc Torch HYPERTHERM,...