Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
A buried electrical substation is coming to Boston
This sounds very interesting - here's an edited press release from Eversource: Eversource, along with representatives from BXP, community partners and state and local officials, today broke ground on construction of the Greater Cambridge Energy Program (GCEP), a...
Renaming a body of water? Been there, done that
A small bay on Squam Lake doesn’t have a lot in common with the Gulf of Mexico, but as of Monday they share at least one attribute: The U.S. Interior Department has changed their name. The Interior Department said Monday it has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf...
UNH readies Instrument to study sun’s interactions
From UNH News: After six years of preparations and testing by a UNH-led team, a space instrument dubbed IMAP-Lo is now aboard a spacecraft and is readying for flight in 2025 to help scientists learn more about the sun’s interactions in the heliosphere and its...
If LIDAR can “see” objects in front of your car, can they do it in space?
Laconia Daily sun has a story about a Gilford company called Rogue that is developing LIDAR-based systems for orbiting satellites to identify objects in space . The full story is here. It's part of the company's effort to develop autonomous orbiting robots that I have...
Did you feel that earthquake? (I didn’t – argh!!!)
Much to my extreme irritation, I did not notice Monday's earthquake off the coast of New Hampshire even though it was noticed by most other people in my office and rattled buildings throughout New England. Darn it; I've still never felt an earthquake! While I mutter...
NH patents through Jan. 26
(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 Jan. 26. *** Molding Resin to Form Continuous Structures VELCRO IP HOLDINGS...
Winters are fading but we can still be darn wintery!
Good old Mount Washington decides to remind us of what it can do in winter: The Mount Washington Observatory says the high temperature there on Tuesday was 13 degrees below zero. That's the coldest daily-high since Feb. 26, 2019. It hit 13 below on my commute that...
One NH town, a million bucks in losses to scams
A sobering, but not surprising, story in Seacoast Online: In the mere 13 months since last January, Hampton residents lost nearly a million dollars through phone, email, text, and social media scams, many involving cryptocurrency. “And that’s just the ones reported to...
Electrify everything is a great idea but who pays?
The push to electrify everything as a way to boost the economy without broiling the planet focuses on ways to switch over vehicles, factories and other big fuel users. But what about smaller things like, say, a trash compactor? “We have to make serious inroads on...
When people fled to NH during pandemic, they brought lots of money
It’s common knowledge that lots of people moved to New Hampshire during the pandemic to escape city life and lockdowns. A new analysis shows that they brought a lot of money with them. “Households migrating to New Hampshire during the pandemic earned an average of...
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