by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
In a sign that I am spending too much time in my AC-free home office that gets pretty toasty in the afternoon, I recently asked this on Twitter: On most (all?) electric fans with several speeds, the setting on the control knob closest to “off” is...
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Aug. 23 to Aug. 30. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Self-Calibrating, Self-Adjusting Network Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A clean-energy firm is proposing three utility-scale solar projects in Maine totaling 201 megawatt capacity, cost $100 million or so. One would be associated with a wood-burning power plant which, as has happened to electricity-only wood-burning in New Hampshire, is...
by David Brooks | Aug 25, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire magazine has a number of articles under the “Nerd Power” title this month – including this different sort of paean to Ralph Baer, inventor of the first home video game. I was asked to contribute something, so I contributed this: A geek...
by David Brooks | Aug 25, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(Note: A good long video explaining the system can be seen via this Treehugger article) Judging from my decades of life experience there is an iron-clad rule about every room in every house ever built: The electric outlets are in the wrong place. Outlets are always,...
by David Brooks | Aug 24, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The latest report from the Monitor’s weekly tracking of the COVID-19 pandemic is very upbeat but it feels like a scorecard from the final baseball game of the regular season: Almost irrelevant because everybody’s waiting to see what happens in the playoffs. The...