by David Brooks | Aug 13, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Unitil, an electric and natural gas provider in New England, is about to build the first utility-owned solar array in New Hampshire. Its 4.9 MW in capacity – sneaking under the state’s 5 MW limit on net metering. It’s in Kingston, sufficiently remote...
by David Brooks | Aug 13, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a good reason why the federal government is giving $450 million to New England to help get electric heat pumps into homes and businesses: They’re great machines and not just for climate change reasons. “I have been saving about $1,000 a year,” said Natch...
by David Brooks | Aug 12, 2024 | 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 Aug. 11 *** Trigger Housing for a Firearm Q, LLC, Portsmouth, New Hampshire...
by David Brooks | Aug 12, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The Valley News has a good story about an electrical engineer who put a public pay phone into the general store in North Tunbridge, Vermont – it hooks into the internet and is free. The whole story is here. The operation is called, semi-tongue-in-cheek, the...
by David Brooks | Aug 11, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
When the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire sends out snail mail, the envelopes are often covered with old aviation-related stamps, as shown above. The museum buys air mail stamps in bulk from dealers at a discount – “sometimes as much as 50 percent,”...
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