by David Brooks | Dec 4, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
When it comes to driving an electric vehicle Addison County, Vermont, the county just south of Burlington, is New England’s leader at 347 miles/1000 residents. (I know nothing about that county. Maybe it contains the rich suburbs for Burlington?) That’s...
by David Brooks | Nov 29, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m no lover of snowmobiles – they’re a useful tool and have an important role to play in northern life, but like ATVs and pickup trucks they have been bulked up and oversold. They’ve become a plague of too-powerful, dangerous, smelly, noisy...
by David Brooks | Nov 29, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
There are all sorts of green-energy reasons to admire what the UNH Durham campus is doing with electricity and heat but if that doesn’t move you, consider the green-eyeshade reasons. “It gives us budget certainty,” said Bill Janelle, associate vice president of...
by David Brooks | Nov 28, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
On Nov. 11, the gorgeous ginkgo tree on the Durham campus of UNH dropped all of its bright yellow leaves at once, an eye-popping move that ginkgo trees are famous for doing at the season’s first hard frost. The annual leaf-drop has long been cause for minor...
by David Brooks | Nov 27, 2023 | 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 Nov. 26. *** Rule-Based Network-Threat Detection for Encrypted...
by David Brooks | Nov 27, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
This map from Canary Media (story here) is worth 1,000 words when it comes to utility-scale (over 1 MW) solar projects. New Hampshire might as well be the Adirondack National Forest.