by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Most patents are dull. Some are less dull. Case in point: Patent No. 9,840,315, issued this month to some of the folks at DEKA R&D in Manchester (but not Dean Kamen, whose name is often found on DEKA patents) for an intriguing contraption that would be attached to...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
(A video of the putting-beer-into-cans operation can be seen here) The obvious way to check on the growth of the craft brewery business in New Hampshire is to drink a craft brew. A less obvious way is to watch that brew being put into cans. “In 2013 we started as one...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: In the first long-term study of New Hampshire’s bumblebee population, researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found three of the state’s most important bumble bee species have experienced drastic declines and range constriction over...
by David Brooks | Dec 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Remember the Mirai botnet that walloped Dyn in October of 2016 and took some major websites offline? The venerable Krebs on Security reports that two men have pleaded guilty: Jha and White were co-founders of Protraf Solutions LLC, a company that specialized in...
by David Brooks | Dec 12, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
This is one of two stories that are part of my search for the oldest operating solar panels in New Hampshire. If you know of a photovoltaic (solar electricity, not solar hot water) system in NH that has been operating continuously since before 1985, email me:...
by David Brooks | Dec 12, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
This is one of two stories in today’s Concord Monitor that are part of my search for the oldest operating solar panels in New Hampshire. The other story is here. There’s a warm, fuzzy feeling that schools get when they put solar panels on the roof, becoming all...