Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
They’re working on how to make maple syrup out west?!?!
There's one thing we're certain about in New England: Despite upstarts like Michigan and Wisconsin, this is the Land of Maple Syrup. (Counting New York state as honorary New England for the moment) But climate change, as has been reported many times, will be hard on...
Old hydropower buildings in Concord are still used – sort of
Two new buildings going up in south Concord near a host of hiking and biking trails will hold storage and maintenance facilities for some state agencies, including one that will be glad to move out of an often-overlooked bit of Concord’s history at Sewalls Falls....
NHBR: Bitcoin fanatic is building modular mining machines in NH
Some cryptocurrency fans make Tesla fans look restrained, and a Canadian company that has started building modular bitcoin-mining machines in Berlin, NH, is one of them. As Bob Sanders reports in New Hampshire Business Review, the Canadian company Cathedra Bitcoin...
Cashew-based cheese maker in N.H.
Business N.H. magazine has a short profile of a New Hampshire firm that's part of the plant-based-nonplant-food market - in this case, a "cheese" made from cashews rather than dairy products. The story is here. Nuttin' Ordinary (ugh - I hate product names that are...
N.H. patents through March 27
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from March 20 to March 27. *** Hypertherm Assigned Patent for Consumable Cartridge for Plasma Arc Cutting System Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been...
New COVID strain rises as our cases and hospitalizations hit new lows
A more contagious COVID-19 variant is on the rise in New England, but experts still don’t know whether that’s bad news. When scientists talked about the Omicron variant this winter, they were most likely referring to the subvariant called BA.1, which was responsible...
Our coal-fired power continues as protesters go to trial
New England's last coal-fired power plant, Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H., has won yet another year of guaranteed funding ($750K per month, roughly) under the annual forward capacity market, but there are signs that cheap power from renewables might be started to eat...
NIH grants in NH totaled $115 million in 2021
I'm always slightly dubious of reports about the economic and job-creation effect of research grants in any geographic area because it depends on a lot of assumptions. With that in mind ... The National Institutes of Health says New Hampshire received $115 million in...
Oh boy: Dartmouth research predicts yet more political polarization is likely
News subtitle A long-standing theorem in the study of American politics holds that candidates will run to the middle in an attempt to win support from the average voter. But a mathematical model developed by a team in Associate Professor of Mathematics Feng Fu’s...
While you were shoveling the driveway they were shoveling in the woods – for science!
It takes a lot of incentive to get people to go out into the woods and shift 15,000 kilograms (16.5 tons) of snow around by hand. Fortunately, scientific curiosity is a great incentive. Earlier this month, six people spent three days at Hubbard Brook Experimental...
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