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Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire 

Net metering boosts UNH power from landfill gas

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...

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NH patents through Nov. 26

(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...

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Run a speed test at home to help expand NH broadband

UPDATE: In seven months leading up to the day before this story rain in the Monitor, the state has seen 915 speed tests. On the day it ran, they got 270 more, and they're still coming in as I write this. New Hampshire is getting ready to take the next step in bringing...

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Rhode Island wind farm starts construction

Off the coast of Rhode Idland, Revolution Wind. a joint venture between Ørsted and Eversource, has started building a 704 MW wind farm in Rhode Island Sound south of Point Judith. It will send power to Rhode Island and Connecticut. Quonset, R.I., is going to be a...

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NH patents through Nov. 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 Nov. 19. *** Guided Munition Systems for Detecting Off-Axis Targets BAE...

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NH Audubon: Where are all the birds?

New Hampshire Audubon has a long post responding to some people who are alarmed that they've seen very few birds at their feeders this year, especially this fall. The post is here. tl'dr - it's not avian flu, it's this year's weather. Warm and rainy summer means...

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About Granite Geek

Dave Brooks has written a science/tech column since 1991 – yes, that long – and has written this blog since 2006, keeping an eye on topics of geekish interest in and around New Hampshire, from software to sea level rise, population dynamics to printing (3-D, of course). He moderates monthly Science Cafe NH discussions, beer in hand, and discusses the geek world regularly on WGIR-AM radio..

Brooks earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics but got lost on the way to the Ivory Tower and ended up in a newsroom. He has reported for newspapers from Tennessee to New England. Rummage through his bag of awards you’ll find oddities like three Best Blog prizes from the New Hampshire Press Association and a Writer of the Year award from the N.H. Farm and Forest Bureau, of all places. He joined the Concord Monitor in 2015.

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