by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Red oak and white pine trees could experience slower growth next year as a result of the severe drought in New Hampshire and most of New England that began in mid-August, according to a researcher with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Last week I was the comic relief for the annual meeting of the N.H. Joint Engineering Society, giving an hour-ish talk via Zoom about a few topics that have cropped up in Granite Geek over the years which I thought might interest a few folks: Benford’s Law...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Combining quantum mechanics and relativity remains the big unsolved problem in physics – it flummoxed Einstein, so I don’t feel too bad about my confusion. Anything that combines the two is intriguing. New research led by Alexander Smith, who is part...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Oct. 18 to Oct. 25. *** BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Assigned Patent for Spectrum Sharing System BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems...
by David Brooks | Oct 22, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Surprisingly (to me, anyway) New Hampshire used slightly more electricity than normal during the pandemic lockdown (April through June), with increased residential use from us work-at-homers compensating for shut factories and hotels. That’s according to a study...
by David Brooks | Oct 21, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The most interesting building in Concord – the whole state, if you’re a history-of-energy wonk – is the gasholder near Exit 13 of I-89, which held and distributed gas made from coal before natural gas arrived in 1952. I have written about it many...
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