by David Brooks | Aug 12, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Aug. 11 *** Trigger Housing for a Firearm Q, LLC, Portsmouth, New Hampshire...
by David Brooks | Aug 12, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The Valley News has a good story about an electrical engineer who put a public pay phone into the general store in North Tunbridge, Vermont – it hooks into the internet and is free. The whole story is here. The operation is called, semi-tongue-in-cheek, the...
by David Brooks | Aug 11, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
When the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire sends out snail mail, the envelopes are often covered with old aviation-related stamps, as shown above. The museum buys air mail stamps in bulk from dealers at a discount – “sometimes as much as 50 percent,”...
by David Brooks | Aug 10, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Vermont is in the process of mandating that no food waste go into landfills. That sounds extreme, but the Washington Post reports (here) that South Korea does it, nationwide. When they were first implemented, South Korea’s food waste policies were met with pushback...
by David Brooks | Aug 9, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
A former paper mill in Lincoln, Maine, will host a large scale battery storage facility partially funded with a $147 million federal grant. Story from Maine Public is here. Lincoln is way up there – past Bangor en route to Mt. Katahdin. Two things of geeky...
by David Brooks | Aug 8, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s been 15 years since bitcoin came on the scene and there still isn’t any legitimate use for it, which says something very unflattering about the whole idea of cryptocurrency. Illegitimate uses, on the other hand, are all over the place. That...
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