by David Brooks | Nov 8, 2020 | Blog
(Note: Turns out this refers to a study from three years ago that I covered at the time. Oops.) If Northern New England homes switched from heating by burning fuel oil to burning wood pellets or chips made in the Northeast, they’d cut their greenhouse gas...
by David Brooks | Nov 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The power-to-weight ratio of batteries and electric motors doesn’t seem like they’d work for aviation, but who knows: An Israeli company called Eviation says that by 2022 it will deliver a 9-passenger electric airplane to Cape Air, a small airline that...
by David Brooks | Nov 5, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Nov. 1 to Nov. 6 *** Hypertherm Assigned Patent for Cooling Plasma Cutting System Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,827,600, initially filed April...
by David Brooks | Nov 5, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Every few years attention returns to geothermal power in the U.S. – as with this excellent recent overview from Vox’s David Roberts, who says it is “”poised for a big breakout.” – which gives me an excuse to talk about how the...
by David Brooks | Nov 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Massachusetts has the country’s best right-to-repair law, although it only cover certain aspects of automotive repair information. On Tuesday it got better: Voters overwhelmingly enlarged it by a 75% to 25% margin, which is getting close to North Korea levels of...
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