by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
A couple weeks ago I brought up the question of why wind turbines have 3 blades rather than 1, 2 or 17. I mentioned some detail about the explanation, but readers pointed me to a video from Engineering With Rosie which explains it in a lot more detail. In case...
by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Here are two items about COVID-19 in New Hampshire that, it’s safe to say, are related: We have a relatively high percentage of people who are vaccinated and we have a low amount of the more infectious Delta variant. How low? In the past couple of weeks, 6,303...
by David Brooks | Jul 12, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Last week I visited (yes, visited! in person!!!) a Tilton company called Sealite that makes ocean buoys and airport lighting. It’s gotten a huge Air Force order and been purchased by a big company, which is why I was there, but the cool part was the 20-foot-tall...
by David Brooks | Jul 12, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — The state of Maine is nearly tripling the number of acoustic shark detectors in coastal waters a year after the state’s first fatal shark attack. The Maine Department of Marine Resources deployed eight acoustic receivers in coastal waters a year...
by David Brooks | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
As of June, New Hampshire had 2,690 all-electric light-duty vehicles registered out of a total about 480,000 vehicles, or about half of one percent, according to the U.S. Dept. of Energy. Maine was at the same level – 1,920 out of about 380,000 vehicles –...
by David Brooks | Jul 8, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from July 4 to July 11. *** BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Assigned Patent for Custodianship Model for Decentralized Track Fusion BAE Systems Information and...
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