by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
When Loring Air Force Base in Maine closed, part of it was taken over by the local MicMac tribe for farming. But years of firefighting and tests has filled the soil with PFAS, as is the case in so many places. Now the tribe is experimenting with using hemp plants to...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Feb. 20 to Feb. 27. Magic Leap Assigned Patent for Diagnosing, Treating Presbyopia Magic Leap, Plantation, Florida, has been assigned a patent (No....
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...