Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
U-L profiles smart developments that combine retail, office, housing
The answer to traffic congestion isn't the Eisenhower Era approach of building more lanes, it's building communities where everybody doesn't need to drive everywhere. The Union-Leader has a profile today of three such developments being built in New Hampshire that...
Saga continues of the maybe-or-maybe-not-illegal arcade star with NH connection
A guy named Billy Mitchell holds a special place in a niche-y part of New Hampshire history: In 1999 at the iconic gaming arcade Funspot, a he achieved the first-ever perfect score on an arcade version of Pac-Man – 3,333,270 points over about six hours. Or did he?...
A Vermont librarian owns a social media site older than Facebook
A Vermont librarian now owns MetaFilter, a social network that was started in 1999. It's one of those sites that I have occasionally encountered over the decades although I've never been part of it. "There’s some people who have been a part of this particular online...
Maine’s strict internet privacy law passes a legal challenge
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the strictest internet privacy laws in the United States has withstood a legal challenge, as a group of telecommunication providers has dropped its bid to overturn the Maine standard. Maine created one of the toughest rules in the nation...
NH Electric Co-op to pay for EV-to-grid w/ real-time rates
Technology is cool but without rules and regulations and money, it doesn't do much. So it's cool that New Hampshire Electric Co-op is testing a "transactive" energy rate that pays for electric vehicles (and battery storage system) to discharge power into the grid when...
Crunching numbers shows that interstate expansion …
(Note: This is the first article of a two-parter, as cleverly shown by the ellipses in the headline. The follow-up is here.) It’s time for another holiday weekend, which means it’s time for Concord residents to tear their hair out trying to get from one part of the...
… isn’t worth it, monetarily or climate-ically
(This is the second of a two-parter. The first part is here.) This is a follow-up to a column that ran in Sunday’s Monitor, where I crunched some numbers from the Traffic Data Management System to quantify how I-93 through Concord gets jammed up on certain days. Among...
N.H. patents through Sept. 4
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Sept. 4. *** Hypertherm Assigned Patent for Cost Effective Cartridge Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,432,393, initially...
Manchester biofab cluster gets $44 million
This is an edited (a lot of guff-filled quotes removed) press release from the U.S. Commerce Department: Today (Friday, Sept. 2) President Biden will announce the BioFabrication Cluster as one of 21 winners of the $1 billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge, the...
New England wonders how to improve the grid
New Hampshire has joined most of New England in a "joint initiative to explore investment in electric transmission infrastructure needed to better integrate clean energy resources such as, but not limited to, offshore wind, while improving the reliability, resilience,...
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