Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Utilities love roadside trees – if they’re not too tall, that is
Magazines like to publish articles titled “30 under 30,” listing 30 newsworthy local folks who are under the age of 30. The state’s biggest electric utility has a different idea for that title. Eversource is distributing a big poster with its recommendation...
Extremely important news: Build a Lego set of Mt. Washington Cog Railway
I'm old enough to remember when Lego was little more than rectangular bricks of various dimensions and colors, so you had to use your imagination to build stuff - after walking uphill both ways, of course. This means I'm snooty about prebuilt sets. Having said that,...
There’s a lot of heat in composting manure; how best to make use of it?
From UNH News Service: Scientists at the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) are developing and testing an innovative system that seeks to bring heated production systems to northeast’s small and medium-sized...
No UFO study commission for NH
A bill "establishing a commission to solicit reports and testimony regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena within NH skies and territory" - call it the Barney and Betty Hill Bill - has been killed by the Science, Technology and Energy committee of the NH House of...
No mandatory EV ban in NH garages
The transportation committee of the NH House of Representatives booted out a bill that would have banned electric cars from parking garages. That is a good result - here's legislative summary: HB 182-FN, prohibiting electric vehicles in commercial parking garages....
Runway friction? We don’t need no stinkin’ runway friction!
Landing and taking off in a small plane can be tricky. Doing it on ice, as 164 people did last Saturday, must be a lot trickier. Right? Not really, said William McGowan of Gilford, a pilot with American Airlines for 32 years, as he watched traffic at Alton Bay Ice...
NH patents through Feb. 9
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Feb. 9. *** Efficient Threat Context-Aware Packet Filtering for Network...
NH man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney
From AP: A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment. His effort paid off: Tim Andrews, 66, is only the second person known to...
Diversity of food is a good thing for farming
Those of us whose jobs keep us inside buildings might be concerned about climate change, but it’s nothing compared to folks whose livelihoods depend on what happens outdoors. “We lost half of our carrots because they rotted in the ground, completely saturated for two...
Museum looks at ‘Evolving (i.e., getting less wintery) Winters in the White Mountains’
The Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State University has opened a new exhibit, “Silent Shifts: Evolving Winters in the White Mountains,” on display until March 29. The exhibit was co-curated by MWM Director Meghan Doherty and New Hampshire-based photographer...
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