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...
by David Brooks | Nov 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Offshore wind farms – even dinky ones, like Block Island off Rhode Island – are very big engineering projects. And with very big engineering projects, you can get very big expensive mistakes. They’ve got one at Block Island, reports E&E News: The...
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