by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Eversource is rolling out a program where it uses quadracopter drones to do some transmission-line inspections. As I note in my story (read it here) these are replacements for helicopter inspections because they have to flown within line of sight of the ground...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Blimps are much cooler than drones, don’t you think? Of course you do. So let’s celebrate the fact that an MIT-connected startup called Altaeros Energies is building a blimp hangar in Fremont, N.H. – halfway between Manchester and the Seacoast...
by David Brooks | Mar 26, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
A company that trains corporate and government clients to operate drones wants to set up shop at the Concord Municipal Airport to help figure out how unmanned vehicles can work alongside piloted aircraft. If the plan goes through, this would be one of the first such...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Drones have made it easier for Dartmouth’s Jesse Casana to do interesting archaeology, including finding things long hidden at the Shaker Village site in Enfield, but there’s a part of him which is just a little bit sorry. “It feels like cheating a little,” admitted...
by David Brooks | Jul 11, 2017 | Newsletter
New Hampshire Business Review had a profile of Alta Motors, a California-based maker of electric motorcycles. It’s a small operation, building about 10 bikes a buy, but is ramping up – and the story says the founders think that selling their 5.8 kWh...
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