Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Dartmouth Health: N.H. isn’t an outlier in pediatric cancer after all
From Dartmouth Health: In 2018, a paper by David A. Siegel, MD, MPH, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made headlines in New Hampshire. The paper reported that the state of New Hampshire and the Northeast region of the U.S. have some of the...
N.H. patents through August 7
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from July 24 through Aug. 7. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Mobile Base Station Bubble Network Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a...
NH electric fleet leader snarfed up by private equity
One of the state's biggest energy-transition companies - Merchant Fleet of Hooksett, a giant truck-leasing firm that made one of the earliest plunges into electric vehicles (will buy 12,500 EV vans from GE's Brightdrop division), has been sucked into all-consuming maw...
Electric aviation startup settles in at Burlington airport
The Burlington, Vermont, City Council has approved a 75-year lease at the Burlington International Airport for electric aviation startup Beta Technologies, which plans to build a large manufacturing facility there. Beta has already spent $15 million renovating its...
Tide charts are now important on the Seacoast for houses as well as boats
There's a telling sentence in this New Hampshire Bulletin about life on the state's Seacoast as the oceans rise: "(Tide) charts help her and other residents predict when their streets will fill with water and become impassable, an event residents have come to expect...
Trout electrofishing in America
To see a lot more photos, check out the article on Concord Monitor here. (Subtle Richard Brautigan reference in that headline, don't you think?) Electrofishing has never been on my bucket list but I have to admit it has a certain appeal, especially if somebody else is...
A seed bank – or, rather, seed library – in NH
Until COVID, I never really thought about the fact that seeds you buy in feed stores are a product that has to be produced just like everything else and therefore subject to supply-chain snarls. And snarled the chain has been - it's been touch-and-go getting the...
NH patents through July 17
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from July 10 through July 17. *** Allegro MicroSystems Assigned Patent for Motor Controller with Stall Detection Allegro MicroSystems, Manchester, New Hampshire, has...
UMaine tries 3-D printing homes from wood residue
I have seen many alternatives to traditional stick-built housing construction over the decades. None have done much. Maybe this one will? Portland Press-Herald reports that the University of Maine is working on 3-D printing homes using wood fiber/ (Story is here) Home...
A very useful invention for half the population
There is exactly one area where males are indisputably superior to females: Ease of urinating outdoors. A New Hampshire company called StandNP has developed a disposable cone (nobody wanted to carry around a reusable one - ewww) that lets women - well, stand and pee....
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