by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The NH Geological Survey has an interesting online project called the Stone Wall Mapper that wants to map all the tens of thousands of miles of stone walls in the state. But the project doesn’t involve crawling around with a GPS – it finds walls on LIDAR...
by David Brooks | Sep 27, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: A letter-writer to the Monitor pointed out that burning wood for heat (as Concord’s downtown did fairly recently, until Concord Steam went belly-up) is a renewable option for the new school that I didn’t mention. As if building a new school wasn’t...
by David Brooks | Sep 24, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Before COVID brought antivax group-think to the far-right authoritarian crowd it was mostly found in the far-left back-to-the-earth set. It’s still there: Seven Days has a good piece (read it here) about an independent publishing house in Vermont that is happily...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Sept. 19 to Sept. 26. ** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for 5G Interoperability Architecture Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,129,240,...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Quebec wants to sell more of its enormous amounts of hydropower to the Northeast U.S., which wants more renewable energy. The problem is that the electricity has to get from there to here and nobody wants big, ugly power lines near them – “near”...