Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
The Halloween costume that says it’s 2021 was …
After a pandemic pause, my wife and I again ran the Haunted Hive on our town's Main Street, in front of the cemetery. Beehive on a table, buzzing like crazy: "Just reach inside and get some candy - heh heh." The surprise is ... well, you have to be there. We're done...
N.H. patents through Halloween
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Oct. 24 to Oct. 31. *** Yogibo Assigned Patent for Structurally Stable Quilted Stretchable Fabric & Methods of Preparation Thereof Yogibo, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a...
For ballot-counting machines it’s Windows XP and dot-matrix printers
The town of Milford wants the state's permission to use a different brand of ballot-counting machine in town elections next spring. Not out of any made-up fears about accuracy (optical ballot counters are really accurate) or any of that hoo-hah - they're worried about...
New N.H. school will be “carbon positive”
A school is just about the biggest thing that local governments build and operate, so if cities/towns are going to help reduce our climate damage they're going to have to take a different approach to building these schools. I did a deep-ish dive on this topic...
Seaweed for dairy cows can reduce emissions – but which seaweed?
University of New Hampshire scientists are sharing two grants totaling nearly $13 million to investigate supplementing dairy cow diets with seaweed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve milk quality and animal health. New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment...
Burning wood for power is a complex topic even for the Space Force
The energy transition has room for plenty of debate about what’s good and what’s bad (nuclear! hydrogen! beaming power from orbit!) but in New Hampshire the poster child for these arguments is biomass. Burning wood for heat and power has been the center of economic,...
Huge lithium supply found in Maine, but there are complications
A massive supply of underground lithium has been found in western Maine, reports The Maine Monitor, but there are complications: The richest known hard rock lithium deposit in the world lies a few miles northeast of the ski slopes of Sunday River ... Yet lithium is a...
UNH is among top 9 colleges nationally for sustainability
This is a press release from UNH, which is understandably proud. I don't know the details of the rating system but I have to assume that ECOLine, the combined-heat-and-power system using landfill gas which powers much of the Durham campus, is a big part of their...
All together now: “4,000 poles in Kancamagus Highway!”
On Oct. 24, the state highway department announced the first snowfall on the Kancamagus Highway, which gives me an excuse to point again to my 2019 story explaining how the state collects roughly 4,000 small trees each year and attaches them to road markers on some...
N.H. patents through Oct. 24
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Oct. 17 to Oct. 24. *** Dartmouth College Assigned Patent for Multi-Coil Induction Hob, Method Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,153,941,...
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