The Valley News reports that a Maine firm called Stored Solar has bought wood-burning power plants in New Hampshire that have shut down because their electricity is too expensive to compete in the deregulated market. The whole story is here. It's a good story that...

By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from April 4 to April 11. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for End-to-End Prioritization for Mobile Base Station Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent...

When big trees fall over in a storm, their upended root masses can the raised six, ten or more feet in the air. They slowly rot over many years forming what's called a tip-up or, after many decades, a pillow. (Alongside the pillow will be a depression where the roots...

One New Hampshire spring tradition is declaration of "ice out" on lakes, of which the most famous is on Lake Winnipesaukee, the state's biggest body of fresh water. This year it was declared on April 5, which is pretty early. The announcement led a reader to ask me:...

A lot of meteorological records that are kept - wind, precipitation, snowfall, temperature - but I didn't realize that sunshine was one of them. Silly me! The Blue Hill Observatory in Massachusetts says that March tied for the sunniest on record with 1915: 243 hours...

Keene was among the first - maybe the first - New Hampshire city to start testing of sewage for SARS-CoV2 viruses (here's my story from last August). Now they're testing for two variants, as well, as the Keene Sentinel reports. I suspect this will become routine...

As a rule I don't pay much attention to surveys of people's attitudes about things that don't exist yet, because their vague assumptions about what's involved (based on the usually vague wording in the survey) have nothing to do with reality. But let's make an...

One of the difficulties in getting people like you – and I suppose me, too – to be on guard against bad guys online, is that we are not quite as clever as we think. “In graduate school, I worked in a computer lab managing systems, and what fascinated me is how people...

From UNH News Service. Climatic outcomes at lower latitudes could be, in part, affected by changes to microbial communities in the Arctic, where the thawing of permafrost changes how microbes contribute to global greenhouse gas production.    To further...