Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Comcast adds Starlink connection
Comcast Business is trying a new way to reach customers aside from through its cables, collaborating with the Starlink satellite-Internet service from SpaceX. Comcast currently reaches 118 New Hampshire communities in much of southern New Hampshire and the Lakes...
NH patents through July 21
(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 July 14. *** Realtime Electronic Countermeasure Assessment BAE SYSTEMS...
Broken blade halts work on Vineyard Wind
Vineyard Wind, the big offshore wind farm being built south of Nantucket Island, is on hold after one of the blades broke and pieces washed ashore on that island of millionaires. One of many stories here. Not good news but hardly fatal to the industry. It should be up...
Rock from NH’s deepest drilled hole finally gets a home
One of the most unusual bits of New Hampshire geology - 19 tons of rock core from the deepest hole ever drilled in the state - have found a final resting place after years of uncertainty. The core was transferred last year (I'm a bit late on this) to Rutgers IODP Core...
NH AI ‘tutor’ is great and also worrisome, for a couple of different reasons
The decision by New Hampshire to allow AI-powered software as a “tutor” in public schools is a great reminder that the technology we call “artificial intelligence” is both wonderful and worrisome at the same time. It’s also a reminder that handing public services to...
Landowners join big, interesting ‘smart forestry’ project in Maine
From New England Forestry Foundation: NEFF has selected six landowners to pilot climate-smart forestry practices on commercial lands under NEFF’s $30-million USDA Climate-Smart Commodities Partnership Project. Robbins Lumber Company, Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands,...
NH patents through July 14
(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 July 14. *** Night Vision System NOCTURN INDUSTRIES LLC, Exeter, New...
Another look at those closing NH coal plants
Politico's energy section E&E News has a long piece about the future of the two coal plants in New Hampshire. It doesn't have anything that hasn't been covered extensively in Granite Geek and the Concord Monitor, but if you're new to the topic it's an excellent...
More federal support for NH’s regenerative tech center
New Hampshire's push to carve out a niche in the biomedical field by creating a research and development center for tissue regeneration has gotten another boost: $44 million from, the amount that “ReGen Valley” — the marketing tag for the Advanced Regenerative...
Are cod and haddock cross-breeding in the Gulf of Maine? Mutating? Evolving?
The Boston Globe has a story (read it here) about odd-looking fish that have been caught in the Gulf of Maine which look sort of like a cod and sort of like a haddock. People are trying to figure out if they're a new species, a hybrid, or what. Reports of the fish...
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