by David Brooks | Aug 7, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
It sounds great for a city or state to stop adding natural gas to its energy mix but for certain applications that’s not easy – such as heating buildings. But there’s an interesting idea to create “GeoMicroDistricts”, sort of a microgrid...
by David Brooks | Aug 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe NH will hold its fourth online event next week – Wednesday at 7 p.m. – discussing food allergies and sensitivities. You can log in via Facebook Live or YouTube. Details are on the web page at sciencecafenh.org.
by David Brooks | Aug 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Aug. 2 to Aug. 9. *** Hypertherm Assigned Patent for Plasma Power Tool Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,736,204, initially filed Oct. 23, 2017) by...
by David Brooks | Aug 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Offshore wind power is to renewable energy as Babe Ruth is to 1930’s baseball – in a league by itself. (In 1927 Ruth hit more home runs by himself than were hit by 12 other teams.) Although distributed solar will be bigger on a global scale, for the near...
by David Brooks | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
One of my favorite mathematical thingamajigs is Benford’s Law, the weirdly counter-intuitive finding about which digits are most likely to appear in most data sets. Basically, it says that in many naturally occurring collections of numbers, no matter how random...
by David Brooks | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
If you’ve had a PCR test for COVID-19 you know that collecting the tissue sample takes a few minutes and involves a minor snootful of irritation. But that’s collecting a sample from one person. How about collecting samples from hundreds of people? Oddly enough, it can...