Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Heat pumps don’t seem like they should work here, but they do
When it comes to the “electrify everything” movement, a key part of reworking society so we stop turning the climate into a destructive beast, three technologies stand out for everyday life. Two of them you know: Solar panels and electric vehicles. But there’s a third...
If a bunch of trees die at once, is it better for the climate to harvest them or let them rot?
When ice storms or the arrival of a destructive insect kills a lot of trees at once, it's not obvious how to respond: Cut them down quickly or let nature take its slow, messy course? Dead trees are a valuable part of the ecosystem, providing homes for bugs, birds and...
‘Broadband in N.H.’ forum on Wednesday from IEEE
The state chapter of IEEE is holding a free online Broadband Forum "addressing the challenges of providing broadband internet access to sparsely populated states such as New Hampshire. The forum will discuss the network technologies used and proposed for broadband...
NH video-game pioneer Ralph Baer will be on commemorative coin
From Coin World: 2021 American Innovation dollars, bearing reverses representing New Hampshire, Virginia, New York and North Carolina, were released April 7 by the United States Mint. Bags and rolls of the first of four 2021 American Innovation dollars struck in...
N.H. patents through April 18
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from April 11 to April 18. Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Hand-In with Topology Hiding Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,979,948, initially...
EV plus: Eversource joins car-charging network
NHPR reports that Eversource, the state's biggest electric utility by far, is joining the Electric Highway Coalition, an agreement by utilities in other parts of the country to support more electric car charging stations. They're the first New England utility to join;...
EV minus: N.H. town decides chargers are too expensive
The town of Derry has turned off a couple of electric-vehicle chargers near its downtown because they've gotten too expensive to run. This article in the Eagle-Tribune is short on details, but I assume the issue is demand charges - extra fees the utility imposes is...
Shooting more moose can protect them from ticks, biologists say
The population density of moose in some parts of New England might be so high that it is helping winter ticks thrive, and the ticks are sickening and killing off moose. A solution, say some wildlife biologists, is to increase the hunting season. Shoot them to save...
FCC says to double-check broadband speeds
The Federal Communications Commission is urging people to download their app onto their phones and test speeds and latency in their home's internet connection, to gather real data about the nation's broadband. You can see their statement here on press release. They...
Cape Cod climate-research station abandoned due to climate
Today's ironic/funny/painful story of life in the Climate Emergency: A long-running weather station on Cape Cod that gathers data to study the climate is being abandoned because the land its sits on is falling into the sea....
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