Solar dominates Maine’s big renewables push
From Greentech Media (whole story is here): Solar will account for about 482 megawatts of the 546 megawatts of projects approved Tuesday by the Maine Public Utilities Commission. Maine now has about 90 megawatts of solar installed, putting it in the bottom ten states...
As cases keep rising, our COVID tracker adds another metric
With small clusters of COVID-19 popping up at schools and perhaps elsewhere, including the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, New Hampshire’s pandemic situation remains, shall we say, unsettled. But nothing worse than that – at least, not so far. The average number of new...Some 20,000 N.H. households haven’t responded to the Census yet
With less than two weeks left in the official deadline to complete the 2020 Census, there has been no response from people in about 4.5% of households in New Hampshire – roughly 20,000 houses, apartments, short-term housing units, group facilities and condos. About...
Is that dust on your car smoke from Western wildfires?
A reader, Marsha Rich of Chichester, sent me some photos yesterday (Sept. 17) of grey dust on her car, wondering if it was from the Western wildfires. I said that while the dust had made the sky hazy and sunsets interesting, I hadn’t heard of it descending to...N.H. patents through Sept. 20
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Sept. 13 to Sept. 20. *** Allegro MicroSystems Assigned Patent for Spin Valve with Bias Alignment Allegro MicroSystems, Manchester, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....
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Science Cafe NHAbout Granite Geek
Dave Brooks has written a science/tech column since 1991 – yes, that long – and has written this blog since 2006, keeping an eye on topics of geekish interest in and around New Hampshire, from software to sea level rise, population dynamics to printing (3-D, of course). He moderates monthly Science Cafe NH discussions, beer in hand, and discusses the geek world regularly on WKXL radio in Concord.
Brooks earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics but got lost on the way to the Ivory Tower and ended up in a newsroom. He has reported for newspapers from Tennessee to New England. Rummage through his bag of awards you’ll find oddities like three Best Blog prizes from the New Hampshire Press Association and a Writer of the Year award from the N.H. Farm and Forest Bureau, of all places. He joined the Concord Monitor in 2015.