Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
If the 13th exit is 39 miles from the border, should it be Exit 13 or Exit 39?
Those of you who can never remember which Interstate 93 off-ramp in Concord is Exit 13, which is Exit 14 and which is Exit 15, take note: You’re actually supposed to be confused about which is Exit 39A, which is Exit 39B and which is Exit 40. That's the beginning of a...
Surprise uptick in births doesn’t keep NH from seeing ‘natural decrease’ (more deaths) for 9th year in a row
New Hampshire saw a jump in the number of newborns last year according to preliminary figures, with the most in-state births reported in 14 years except for a short post-COVID spike. However, that mini baby boom doesn't mean trends in New Hampshire's population have...
NH patents through Jan. 18
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 in the week through Jan. 18. Modular Position and State Sensing System and Method...
Northern Pass, we hardly knew ye
The New England Clean Energy Corridor (power line from Quebec to Maine) is up and running, and on Friday the wholesale electricity price in Maine was just 8% of the wholesale price in New Hampshire. There's something of a bottleneck from Maine down into the New...
Rooftop solar turned New England’s grid profile into a ‘duck curve’ 1/3 of the days in 2025
New England has so much rooftop solar (more than 7000 MW installed) that the once-rare "duck curve" day - when we buy less electricity mid-day than at night because we're using our own solar power - is becoming ordinary. New England ISO, which runs the six-state power...
As Wikipedia turns 25, recalling a talk with a (very) early contributor
As you probably know, 4.78 percent of Concord’s total surface area is made up of water. Wait – you didn’t know that? Then you haven’t read Wikipedia in the past 23 years, because this intriguing tidbit has been part of the article about Concord since halfway...
N.H. wind farm keeps chugging along
The Monadnock Ledger has a story about the sixth anniversary of Antrim Wind Farm, a relatively small (28.8 MW, 9 turbines) operation. It faced a lot of the usual opposition and took four years to get approval, part of the reason there are only three wind farms of any...
UNH gets important research tool
It's not always easy doing public outreach for a research university. Sometimes you have to write articles about things that don't really resonate with the general audience, like Isothermal titration calorimetry. It certainly doesn't resonate with me, anyway! UNH News...
Like all engineers, beavers sometimes cause trouble
Beavers are awesome engineers, as everybody knows. Sometimes that's great. Sometimes it's not. The Monitor has a story about a long-running right in the town of Bow over a beaver dam and how it is shaping New Hampshire law - you can read it here. House Bill 1530 would...
“A.I. Trivia Time, A Classroom Game Students Will Truly Enjoy!”
Day of A.I., the MIT-backed project to educate teachers and students about the technologies misleadingly known as artificial intelligence, has a new classroom game called A.I. Trivia Time. From their press release: Think of AI Trivia Time as a brain break with a...
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