Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
N.H. patents through April 24
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from April 17 through April 24. *** Galvion Assigned Patent for Helmets Including Spray on Materials Galvion, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been assigned a...
Joining the plant-based meat/dairy replacement bandwagon, sort of
Start-ups always face unexpected issues when developing new products. Some issues are more surprising than others. “It took us a while to find the right hand soap,” said Adam Hamilton, co-founder of Nuttin’ Ordinary, a small New Hampshire company making a creamy...
PCR-test-in-a-box for COVID being manufactured in NH
A New Hampshire factory is ramping up to make thousands of machines that can detect COVID-19 virus from people’s spit rather than mucus gathered from their nostrils, now that the FDA has given emergency approval to the Virginia company that developed the process....
Car tires are a huge pollution problem that recycling can barely touch
The Valley News has a good story about the difficulty of dealing with all the used tires that our transportation-happy economy produces. Burning, reusing, landfilling - all have problems - and the cost is rising. The story is here. Tires are a significant stream of...
N.H. patents through April 17
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from April 10 through April 17. *** BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Assigned Patent for Link 16 Time Base Approach for Long Ranges...
A golden age of wildlife in New England?
"Science-based wildlife management, based on a set of principles developed in the 19th century, brought New England wildlife from its darkest days into an era in which state agencies are pleading for hunters to eat more animals." That's a line from this Boston Globe...
Electric plane startup at Burlington Vt. airport
The New York Times has a long article about a startup called Beta at Burlington International Airport (Canadian flights make it sound bigger) that's developing an electric piloted airplane with the idea of carrying cargo on short trips (batteries don't last that long)...
More guilty pleas in NH case of unlicensed Bitcoin exchange
Three of six defendants - including the one who legally changed his name to Nobody - have now pleaded guilty in the case of what prosecutors have alleged was an unlicensed Bitcoin exchange based in Keene that skirted rules against money laundering. Prosecutors allege...
Another thing we’re doing to the planet: Reducing the nitrogen that plants need
When talking about nitrogen in the ecosystem, the problem is usually an excess caused by human activity, such as runoff into New Hampshire waterways. But on a global scale, the problem might be too little nitrogen entering the ecosystem due to the usual culprit: the...
Maine’s got a lot of wind power but it wanted to have 3X as much
More than a decade ago, Maine said it wanted to generate 3,000 megawatts of electricity from onshore wind by 2020. That was a very aggressive goal and the state has fallen well short, even though it's the Northeast's leader in wind power: It generates about 1,000...
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