by David Brooks | Aug 24, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The latest report from the Monitor’s weekly tracking of the COVID-19 pandemic is very upbeat but it feels like a scorecard from the final baseball game of the regular season: Almost irrelevant because everybody’s waiting to see what happens in the playoffs. The...
by David Brooks | Aug 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A New Hampshire firm that makes stand-alone kiosks for things like buying tickets is creating COVID-specific products, including a kiosk that measures body temperature through thermal imaging (accurate enough to spot people who need a check w/ a thermometer) and also...
by David Brooks | Aug 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Aug. 16 to Aug. 23. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Base Station Grouping for Topology Hiding Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....
by David Brooks | Aug 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
NHSaves, a program to urge energy efficiency in the state, and sometimes give financial to upgrading items, sent out an item today telling people how bad incandescent bulbs are. That led me to wonder: Who uses incandescent bulbs any more? Funky restaurants use them to...
by David Brooks | Aug 19, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Looking for the SARS-CoV2 virus in sewage is a hot topic, if also a smelly one. I wrote last month about Keene’s plans to test the city’s wastewater as a relatively quick and easy way to spot a COVID-19 outbreak (from, say, a bunch of returning college...
by David Brooks | Aug 19, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
School buses, especially in cities, are perfect vehicles to be electric: They have set, predictable routes and return to the same place every day for charging. And being fleet vehicles, the cost savings in fuel and especially maintenance will be immediately...
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