Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
N.H. is scraping the bottom when it comes to public EV charging
As a general rule when there's a state-by-state ranking of useful services, you don't want to be alongside Mississippi or West Virginia. But they're the company that New Hampshire keeps in a recent ranking of public (i.e., not in people's homes) electric vehicle...
200-Year Old Poop Shows Rural Elites in New England Had Parasitic Infections
From Dartmouth News: In the early 19th century in North America, parasitic infections were quite common in urban areas due in part to population growth and urbanization. Prior research has found that poor sanitation, unsanitary privy (outhouse) conditions, and...
Another ‘germplasm conservation orchard’ for American chestnut in N.H.
From the Vermont/N.H. chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation: (For background, check my story from last July) On May 1, 2021, 24 volunteers and local school students worked with the Southeast Land Trust (SELT) and the VT/NH Chapter of the American Chestnut...
We hate to admit it but home heating is worse than air conditioning for the climate
In New Hampshire we ecowarriors like to tut-tut about those wasteful southerners with their air conditioning, but the hard fact is that heating a home comfortably up here usually takes more energy than cooling it comfortably down there. That makes sense from sheer...
Gray foxes spreading through Maine are bringing rabies
Maine may be seeing a new strain of rabies in gray foxes, caused by cross-infection between them and raccoons. A story in the Bangor Daily News (here) says veterinarians think the strain might be behind a series of rabid fox attacks in the midcoast section of Maine,...
N.H. patents through May 2
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from April 25 to May 2. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for SSID to QCI Mapping Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,993,135, initially filed...
22 long-distance transmission lines urged (but not the Maine interconnect)
As you'll see from the map above, there's an interesting omission from the "shovel-ready" long-distance electric transmission lines that a report says should be pursued to generate jobs and clean energy for the U.S. The Quebec-Maine interconnect - much-debated cousin...
Here’ a technology that NH needs more of: Animal processing
Farming livestock is a good way to celebrate life, but it also requires dealing with death. That can be a problem for small-scale and beginning farmers, including the many people who decided to start raising chickens during the pandemic. “There’s a Facebook group for...
Anti-daylight saving bill is still alive in New Hampshire
The latest attempt to shift New Hampshire away from daylight-savings switcheroos by putting us permanently on the Atlantic Standard Time (as long as Maine and Massachusetts do it first) is still alive: The House of Representatives has passed HB85 and it's in committee...
Can you take water from rivers and lakes in a drought?
It's been pretty wet in New Hampshire over the past week or so but we're still in a long-term drought. It's going to take more than a few normal-precipitation periods to overcome months of sub-normal water from the sky. This raises a question: If I want to water my...
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