by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
You want New Hampshire patents? We got New Hampshire patents! Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (9,867,268) developed by three co-inventors for “cooling plasma torch nozzles and related systems and methods.” The co-inventors are Brian J....
by David Brooks | Jan 10, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The record-breaking deep freeze we went through over the past couple of weeks has thrown fuel on the fire (Ed. – inappropriate metaphor) for the debate over whether New England needs to build more pipelines to bring natural gas here. Basically, one of the...
by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
If you were a little surprised that 2018’s first baby born in one of the whitest states in the nation – Gifty Nnamerenwa, who arrived in Nashua about 90 minutes after midnight on Monday – wasn’t white, and neither was the first 2018 baby born in Concord, perhaps it’s...
by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Wildlife biologists need help from citizen science volunteers to conduct surveys for Eastern cottontail rabbits in southern New Hampshire. On February 3, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to noon in Hollis, UNH Cooperative Extension and New Hampshire Fish and Game will train...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Photovoltaic electricity is growing fast in New Hampshire, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration: We went from an estimated annual production of 45,000 megawatt-hours during the first three quarters of 2016 to 78,000 Mwh in the same period of...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I decided I don’t get enough email from readers calling me an idiot, so I wrote this for today’s Concord Monitor: The holidays are over and the weather has been weird, which makes people grumpy. So let’s be grumpy, too. Specifically, let’s be grumpy about...