by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
So many bad things are happening in the environment that the sight of what looks like huge balls of cotton candy all over some trees feels like the latest new disaster. But don’t fret: They’re routine and not as bad as they look. These aren’t gypsy moths or tent...
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
In a sign that I am spending too much time in my AC-free home office that gets pretty toasty in the afternoon, I recently asked this on Twitter: On most (all?) electric fans with several speeds, the setting on the control knob closest to “off” is...
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Aug. 23 to Aug. 30. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Self-Calibrating, Self-Adjusting Network Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A clean-energy firm is proposing three utility-scale solar projects in Maine totaling 201 megawatt capacity, cost $100 million or so. One would be associated with a wood-burning power plant which, as has happened to electricity-only wood-burning in New Hampshire, is...
by David Brooks | Aug 25, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire magazine has a number of articles under the “Nerd Power” title this month – including this different sort of paean to Ralph Baer, inventor of the first home video game. I was asked to contribute something, so I contributed this: A geek...
by David Brooks | Aug 25, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(Note: A good long video explaining the system can be seen via this Treehugger article) Judging from my decades of life experience there is an iron-clad rule about every room in every house ever built: The electric outlets are in the wrong place. Outlets are always,...