Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Vacationers love NH, unless they want to tootle around in their EV
You can't get tourists to spend money unless they show up and a tourist with an EV is likely to find NH a less-than-welcoming destination since we have relatively few public charging stations by Northeast standards. Clean Energy NH estimates that avoidance by...
I’ve always taken ski chairlifts for granted. Maybe that was a mistake
From the point of view of New Hampshire ski area owners, this has been a good news/bad news season The weather has been great, with none of the snowpack-killing warm rains that have bedeviled us in recent winters. But then there’s the chairlifts. An aerial lift...
Satellite and drone pics are cool but don’t cancel home insurance based on them
The department that oversees private insurance in New Hampshire has warned companies that it takes more than an aerial photo or two of a house to make decisions about issuing a policy. “The Department has received several complaints in recent months in which...
Basic science – in this case, about snowpack depth – is worth it even when there’s no point
I don’t know about you but I’ve got more snow in my yard right now than I’ve had for at least three winters. All that snow is kind of a pain I’m when post-holing my way around the field or digging out the mailbox, but mostly it’s delightful, a reminder of the way New...
NH patents through Feb. 23
(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 Feb. 23. *** Shoe Having Features for Increased Flexibility COLE HAAN LLC,...
NH says we want yesterday’s energy today (and tomorrow)
Donald Trump has a long, irrational hatred of wind farms, dating back to his squabbles in Scotland between them and a golf course. The GOP, for reasons that will ever escape me, has adopted most of his whims as policy, making up factoids as necessary to support them....
Another weird geographic ranking: NH has a relatively big spread between population center and geographic center
If you calculate the population center of each state as well as its geographic center, measure the distance between the two and then compare that figure to the total area of the state, you'll find that New Hampshire has the fourth-biggest relative gap of any state. Or...
Can you develop ethics in a field – biofabrication – that hardly exists yet?
Remember that line in “Jurassic Park” where Jeff Goldblum’s character says “Scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” That’s basically the idea behind an intriguing new program at Saint Anselm College...
Foam in rivers, &bays is often natural; the PFAS isn’t
UNH News Service: Researchers at the University of New Hampshire used a newly designed device called a skimmer to test samples of foam formed on the top of local waterways for the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. Preliminary findings show...
Want to visit a working New England granite quarry? You’re out of luck
Seven Days, the Vermont independent news organization reports: Rock of Ages, which last summer celebrated 100 years of welcoming visitors to tour its world-class granite quarry and stone-sculpting operation in Barre, Vt., will no longer be open to the public. "After...
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