by David Brooks | Oct 28, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH Today has an essay (here it is) telling what most Granite Geek readers already know, but it’s a good reminder: “The same thing that’s happening to hurricanes is happening to nor’easters – warmer ocean temps are pumping more heat and water into the storms, so...
by David Brooks | Oct 28, 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 Oct. 27. *** Batch Processing Signal Acquisition BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION...
by David Brooks | Oct 28, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Electric vehicles are so new that we have questions about how they’ll react to some situations, such as recovering from the weather disasters that increasingly hit in these climate-emergency days. After Hurricane Milton in Florida, despite wide ranging power...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm is one of the best pieces of energy news that we’ve had for a while – or, rather, it was until one of the blades broke and made a mess in the ocean. Inspection of all the other blades continues, reports the Boston...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
A Vermont company called Solaflect Energy is trying to make a business out of directly charging cars from a smallish (6 KW) solar array deployed in parking lots. Each unit has four chargers attached. Seven Days Vt has the story, which unlike a lot of popular press...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
People in all the New England states have been talking for a while about doing something different with time zones, usually dropping the twice-yearly switcheroo and sticking with one or the other of the possibilities. Nothing has come of it and I suspect nothing will...