Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Three NH wastewater plants are part of national COVID-19 monitoring
Three New Hampshire treatment plants are part of a CDC database detecting COVID-19 in wastewater. Judging from the map, I think they're Concord, Claremont and Conway. At the moment there is recent data only from Conway, which saw a drop of between 10% and 99% over the...
Now *this* would be useful: A way to detect lost or unsuspected electronics in the house
From Dartmouth News Service: Radar technology that has been used to track flying insects and detect explosives can also be used to discover and identify unknown or unwanted electronic devices in homes. Beatrice Perez, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of...
Planting a trillion trees requires a trillion seeds – easier said than done
Of all the efforts being promoted to battle climate change, “plant a trillion trees” might be the most attractive. There’s the alliteration, for one thing. Plus, everybody likes trees. And planting enough trees to pull significant carbon from the air is something we...
N.H. patents through Feb. 6
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Jan. 30 to Feb. 6.Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for X2 Brokering with Aggregation Optimization Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been...
Carbon pricing, climate science and climate ignorance
This piece by John Gage, volunteer NH state coordinator for Citizens' Climate Lobby, appeared in the Concord Monitor on Feb. 3: On Jan. 20, in a hearing about HR 17 by the NH House State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs committee, a travesty of scientific...
We’d be better off if ‘missing middle’ housing wasn’t quite so missing
If New Hampshire wants to tackle two of the biggest problems facing us — the climate crisis and painfully expensive housing — we need to make it easier to not follow in my footsteps. My problem? I live in a big single-family home on more land than I need and everybody...
Three ranked-choice voting bills in NH this year
Citizens Count notes that there are three - count 'em, three! - bills advocating ranked-choice voting in the NH Legislature this session. Prediction: All will die in the face of the GOP's effort to limit the effectiveness of voting. This is Citizens Count's quick...
Proposed NH EV laws: good, bad and complicated
New Hampshire continues to lag neighboring states in support for the growing tide of electric vehicles and the variety of bills before the legislature on the topic, not to mention the regulatory reason that the town of Derry removed its EV chargers, shows that...
How cold affects EV range (well – this one particular EV)
Cold weather affects all kinds of vehicles: Mileage on my Prius drops about 10% between summer and winter, and mileage on plain old gasoline cars also falls, although most people don't notice because they don't keep track. Electric vehicles owners definitely keep...
NH firms with stuff on the James Webb Space Telescope
A poster in reddit named AeroSpaceChair put up an item pointing out that at least three N.H. firms provided products used on the James Webb Space Telescope. (The post is here.) + Appli-Tec of Salem. Appli-Tec Part of Historic NASA Goddard Webb Space Telescope Project...
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