by David Brooks | Mar 12, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
A big part of creating a commercial cranberry bog involves dumping sand to speed and improve growth of the plants. Climate change is making the bogs on Cape Cod and the islands less productive so some are going out of business. The Boston Globe reports (story is here)...
by David Brooks | Mar 11, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through March 10. *** 4g/5g Core Interworking PARALLEL WIRELESS, INC., Nashua, New...
by David Brooks | Mar 11, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
From Axios (story is here): The Lower 48 states just experienced their warmest winter on record this year, with extreme temperature departures from average observed across the northern tier of the country, according to new NOAA data. According to NOAA, some of the...
by David Brooks | Mar 10, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
An electric-car-charging station has just been installed at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. Actually, that isn’t quite accurate. It’s really an electric-car-and-electric-plane-charging station. That might surprise you because there aren’t any electric...
by David Brooks | Mar 9, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire’s anti-solar-power legislature puts a cap of 5 MW on any municipal solar array, if it wants to be net metered (that is, paid for excess power sent into the grid). There’s no reason for this cap, which used to be just 1 MW, except that...
by David Brooks | Mar 8, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Here’s a statement I used to firmly believe but now realize is often wrong: “Government should not pick technology winners and losers.” It can be true, of course, but there are times when the representatives of “we the people” need to take the lead away from...