by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
If you’re going to test a weather station to make sure it’ll work on Mount Everest, where do you go? How about Mount Washington. From an article (read it here) in AMC’s Outdoors magazine: They spent several hours off the side of the auto road, just...
by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
You can’t generate millions of watts of electricity would creating some problems – nothing’s perfect. Solar panels’ most obvious problem is area – they have to spread out to absorb enough photons. It’s easiest and cheapest to do...
by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Back when I was in middle school a lot of people were talking about a disastrous infection that had come out of an exotic place and was threatening millions of people, just like COVID-19. It had a much better name, however – The Andromeda Strain – and it was much...
by David Brooks | Nov 8, 2020 | Blog
(Note: Turns out this refers to a study from three years ago that I covered at the time. Oops.) If Northern New England homes switched from heating by burning fuel oil to burning wood pellets or chips made in the Northeast, they’d cut their greenhouse gas...
by David Brooks | Nov 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The power-to-weight ratio of batteries and electric motors doesn’t seem like they’d work for aviation, but who knows: An Israeli company called Eviation says that by 2022 it will deliver a 9-passenger electric airplane to Cape Air, a small airline that...
by David Brooks | Nov 5, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Nov. 1 to Nov. 6 *** Hypertherm Assigned Patent for Cooling Plasma Cutting System Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,827,600, initially filed April...
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