Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
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....
A floating septic system for boaters
I'm not a boat-owner (mountains beat ocean, from my recreational point of view) so it hadn't occurred to me to wonder what happens with their bodily wastes. Dumping them overboard would be the easy thing but that can cause obvious problems, especially close to shore....
Hey boss, does our new factory need breathable air? How about gravity – do we need that?
Whenever I see pictures of the International Space Station, I think two things: 1) It would be cool to visit and 2) how did they get all those massive girders into orbit? I know the answer to 2) is “big rockets and the space shuttle” but it’s still kind of...
Dartmouth: In 24 years, $6 trillion in economic damage from greenhouse gases
Dartmouth News Service: A sound scientific basis exists for climate liability claims between individual countries, according to a Dartmouth study. The study is the first to assess the economic impacts that individual countries have caused to other...
N.H. patents through July 10
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from July 3 through July 10. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for End-to-End Prioritization for Mobile Base Station Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has...
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