Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
N.H. patents through April 25
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from April 18 to April 25. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Base Station Grouping for Topology Hiding Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....
UNH study: Earlier spring might reduce, not increase, forests ability to absorb carbon
Some cool research at UNH experimental farms and forests about ways that warming winters change NH ecosystems' effect on climate change. In sum, grassland took in more carbon because they started growing earlier but, counter-intuitively, forests took in less: The...

Hannaford says they no longer send any food waste to landfills
This story appears in today's Monitor. As a longtime fan of composting I was attracted by the accomplishment but what really hit me was the "de-packaging" machine. I'd love to visit it! One of the region’s biggest supermarket chains says it is no longer throwing any...
Tidal power is part of push to make islands energy-independent
A Maine town and an island are part of an interesting-looking federal Department of Energy program to help "remote and island" communities with the energy transition, mostly by figuring out renewable alternatives to shipping is tons of diesel for generators. Many of...
Study finds some white ash trees persist despite emerald ash borer
A study in Northern Michigan (where the emerald ash borer first appeared in North American) looked at tree health and EAB numbers is some woods that been hit by the invasive bug for a decade found some white trees healthy and persisting. Abstract from the U.S. Forest...
The ‘two out of three rule’ for staying safe as COVID eases
I don't usually link to articles with no obvious New England connection, but this NY Times story (paywall, maybe) gives a terrific rule of thumb for deciding how to stay safe as COVID-19 eases: In every situation, she makes sure she’s meeting two out of three...

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...