Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Keeping track of temperatures is suddenly big(-er) business
One of the unexpected results of the pandemic has been to focus attention on formerly obscure technologies that everybody suddenly cares about, like face-mask design and ventilation filters. Here’s another example, one that has a Warner company scrambling: Temperature...
C-130 was testing a decontamination system before it was hauled through Concord
Remember that C-130 fuselage that raised so many eyebrows when it was trucked through downtown Concord last month? I wrote several stories speculating but not really knowing why it was here. At last the story can be told! (The U.S. military does many things well but...
Rural broadband launched by co-op utility in four towns
New Hampshire Electric Co-operative, which this year included broadband internet among the services it aims to provide, has rolled out the service in four small western N.H. towns: Lempster, Clarksville, Colebrook and Stewartstown. Speeds are "up to 1 gigabit"...
Snow measurement is Heisenberg uncertain
You know how the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal says (roughly) that we can't accurately know the velocity and the location of a sub-atomic particle at the same time because measuring one alters the other? Measurement of snow depth is like that, too: You can't know...
N.H. patents through Dec. 20
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Dec. 13 to Dec. 20. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Heterogeneous Mesh Network Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,869,201, initially...
Granite Geek classic: “That snow fence – you did it wrong”
This is my most popular snow-related piece, which first ran in 2016. Today's very fine snowstorm over the whole Northeast means it's time for a rerun! I have a fairly long driveway next to an open field, and at least once every winter, snow drifts across it to the...
N.H. has seen 440 more deaths this year than COVID can explain: Is that significant?
How many people have died in New Hampshire because of COVID-19? That seems a straightforward question but it’s actually pretty complicated. One possible answer is: 440 more than we have counted. As of late November the answer was about 500, according to the state’s...
N.H. spots a lot of UFOs
The national UFO Reporting Center says people in New Hampshire reported more things in the sky that it didn't know what they were than those in almost any other state. Only Idaho and Montana had more. My thought was: It's just states with lots of rural places (no city...
A weather station that measures moisture in wood
A solar-powered weather station has been turned on in the North Country that is focused more on the ground than the air, with the goal of helping to spot and prevent wildfires. Like many automated weather facilities the RAWS, or Remote Automated Weather Station, at...
Can you fit the whole solar system around Concord? Better start wandering!
These days we’re all sick of being stuck inside and want to go for a walk. So why not take a stroll to Venus? Or Jupiter? Or may you’d rather walk one-fiftieth of Earth’s annual trip around the sun? Rob Kramer can tell you how. “If you start at the Lowe’s … walk to...
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