Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
What kind of tick bit you? Bebop Labs will tell
It's tick season (although, as I noted back when snow as still on the ground, it's always tick season now) so time to remind New Hampshire folks that if you find a tick biting you, sending it to Bebop* Labs in Plymouth will help their database of tick population and...
Why can’t you get Grade B syrup?
Found an excellent YouTube video about making syrup, spurred by the question of "why can't you get Grade B syrup any more?" - much more biology, chemistry and technical detail (using reverse osmosis means 11-1 rather than 48-1 ratio of sap-to-syrup) than the usual...
N.H. patents through May 8
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from May 1 through May 8. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Energy-Efficient Base Station with Synchronization Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been...
New Englanders are making so much of their own electricity that the grid hit a record low
ISO-New England, the folks who run the six-state power grid, released this item: Mild temperatures, sunny skies, and low Sunday demand for electricity combined on May 1, 2022 to result in the lowest demand for grid electricity in New England since records began being...
Companies say they’ll use Maine wood to make fuel and fertilizer
The Bangor Daily News has a story about several companies looking to convert old paper mills into factories that turn wood into biochar (as I've reported) or biofuels of various types. It's a hopeful sign both for environmental reasons and for the economy of the North...
What if instead of the station filling my car, my car could fill the station?
Next time you’re filling up your car and moaning about the cost, imagine if the price of gas went down at midnight and you could fill up at night without leaving the house. Replace “gas” with “electricity” and that’s smart charging. Better yet, imagine if you could...
Offshore wind for me but not for thee (for certain thees, at least)
Parochialism is fun in sports, not so fun when tackling global disasters. A UNH study of offshore wind found, alas, we don't make that distinction. We conducted two surveys – one in Rhode Island and the other on the New Hampshire coast – to see how people felt about...
Ugh – a return (even if momentary) of the COVID tracker
Six weeks ago, the >italic<Concord Monitor>res< happily mothballed the weekly COVID Tracker after 20 months of pondering the ups and downs of the pandemic, with fingers crossed that it would never return. Alas, we have had to uncross our fingers, at least...
Plastic ‘recycling’ is a joke – a painful one
"Tthe high recycling rates of post-consumer paper, cardboard, and metals prove thatrecycling can be an effective way to reclaim valuable natural material resources. The problemlies not with the concept or process of recycling but with the material itself – it is...
N.H. patents through May 1
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from April 24 through May 1. *** Centripetal Networks Assigned Patent for Efficient Threat Context-Aware Packet Filtering for Network Protection Centripetal...
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