by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
More than 30 years ago I lived in a Merrimack townhouse served by a heat pump and, boy, was I unimpressed. Whenever it got too cold outside, the air from the vents was tepid at best, leaving us shivering. I was delighted when we bought a house with that New Hampshire...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve been hearing about the promise of perovskite solar cells for photovoltaic production for a couple years. This particular family of materials with a specific crystal structure works great in the lab at producing more electricity from the same amount of...
by David Brooks | Feb 21, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
This is my “COVID tracker” column in the Monitor for Feb. 21: This column tracks COVID-19 in New Hampshire, but today we’ll look at a related issue: tracking influenza. The annual scourge of the flu, which kills tens of thousands around the globe yearly,...
by David Brooks | Feb 21, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Eversource Energy, the biggest electric utility in the Northeast, expects 1,760 MW of offshore wind capacity in service off New York and New England by the end of 2025. (Article is here.) That’s almost one and a half nuclear power plants worth of capacity...
by David Brooks | Feb 21, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The environmental benefits of Concord’s pay-as-you-throw program, which charges home owners for curbside trash collection but not recycling collection, are obvious. The city says the volume of trash it sends to a landfill or incinerator has fallen by over 40% since...
by David Brooks | Feb 21, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Feb. 13 to Feb. 20. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for VoIP, Native Carrier Call Integration Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been...