Ice, eels, bubbles – the perils of hydropower plants
Do you know what “frazil ice” is? Then you’re smarter than me – I only learned yesterday while reporting about Concord’s net-metering purchase of 9 million KWH of power from a local hydropower plant: The article is here.
N.H. gets an unwanted first: Our first official plant extinction
This is a press release from the state concerning a plant I wrote about last October (here) The N.H. Natural Heritage Bureau has announced that smooth slender crabgrass, a plant previously known to exist only at Rock Rimmon Park in Manchester, has been officially...N.H. patents through June 19
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from June 12 through June 19. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Base Station Power Management Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a...
As summer starts, COVID is worse than last year at this time
With all due respect to meteorologists and their measurements, summer doesn’t really start until high schools graduate. Now that “Pomp and Circumstance” has been heard on football fields all over New Hampshire we can say the outdoor season is definitely here, which...
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Science Cafe NHAbout 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.