Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
UNH has a clean room bigger than my first apartment
From UNH News Service: The University of New Hampshire has unveiled a new 950 square foot cleanroom at UNH’s John Olson Advanced Manufacturing Center. The new ISO7 cleanroom was donated by Airtho and will help strengthen UNH’s role as a leader for emerging research...
‘Eat the invaders’ – green crab edition
The idea of eating invasive species - plants, animals, even bugs - is appealing. Reduce the bad thing and get "free" food! Win-win! As a way to reduce invasive populations, however, it rarely works due to economics. Once the species becomes popular to eat, it's...
Huge New England offshore wind project dies a deliberate death
From The Maritime Executive, news that Trump's inexplicable hatred of wind power is killing another source of future cheap electricity: he joint venture company formed between BP and JERA announced that it has decided not to proceed at this time with the development...
Rural trauma crisis involves falls more than crashes
There’s a crisis in trauma care for rural areas, including those in New Hampshire, but it’s not the crisis you think it is. “Most people’s perception of trauma, from the news and TV, is car crashes, stabbings,” said Dr. Steve DeWitt, an emergency department...
NH patents through Oct. 19
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 Oct. 19. Delivery Device Apparatuses, Systems, and Methods DEKA PRODUCTS...
50 years after wild turkeys returned to NH, looking to learn more
A new wild turkey research project in New Hampshire is on the horizon. Thanks in part to funding provided by the National Wild Turkey Foundation, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is gearing up to start an project that will investigate wild turkey survival...
As fresh water gets saltier, New Hampshire looks for new ways to address the cause
New Hampshire Bulletin has a story looking at the constant, and increasing, problem of road salt, which is spread to make roads less dangerous, is contaminating fresh water. Because the ions that make up road salt don’t evaporate or break down, and plants don’t...
New England wind power sets a new record (barely)
ISO-NE, the folks who run the six-state power grid, says we had 1,332 MW of wind power on the grid at about 7 am. Thursday. That represented almost 10% of the total system load at the time and was a record output - but only by 17 MW. Worse, it was less than 100 MW...
Making hiking trails is like building a highway while bushwacking
In many aspects of life, the old ways are the good ways. Building a path to hike up a mountain is not, however, one of those aspects. “We love our old historic trails but there are better ways to lay them out,” said Erik Samia, Trails Training Program Supervisor for...
Droughts and warming winters mean the East may have to rethink the whole idea of ski season
I was planning on doing a pre-ski-season story on the effect of the drought on ski area's snowmaking, but Molly Rains of the New Hampshire Bulletin did it first, and did it much better. Her article (you can read it here) touches on the possibility that for a variety...
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