by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog
Sorry for the confusion but I have now undone an overly hasty correction. I “corrected” myself before double-checking, which was stupid. My original posting was correct – we are getting 18,000 DOSES of vaccine a week, not 18,000 vials of vaccine...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Jan. 10 to Jan. 17. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Congestion, Overload Reduction Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,893,436,...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
A replacement highway bridge in Hampden, a town next to Bangor, Maine, has girders made partly of composite materials and there’s real hope this could cut down on maintenance problems, especially rust caused by road salt. The Bangor Daily News has a story...
by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: See note at bottom. Invasive species are non-native plants, bugs and beasts that for various reasons, usually lack of predators, spread so quickly after being introduced that they overwhelm native species. They’re a huge problem all over the world...
by David Brooks | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The IBEW union in Maine says that Schiller Station in Portsmouth, with two 50 MW coal-fired and one 50 MW wood-fired power plants, has effectively shut down permanently, although the owners haven’t announced anything. They said this last July – I’m...
by David Brooks | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
There are lots of good reasons to compost your food waste, but here’s one I hadn’t thought of: a dearth of dirt. “Topsoil is getting harder and harder to find,” said Marc Morgan, solid waste manager for the city of Lebanon, who needs topsoil to cover the city landfill...
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