Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
AMC layoffs partly reflect public’s changing outdoor tastes
The Appalachian Mountain Club, the 80-pound gorilla of outdoors recreation in the Northeast, has laid off a bunch of folks for a variety of reasons, including rising costs and changing habits. The Boston Globe has a big story on it (the article is here) with this...
Mass. community geothermal heat-pump project is being turned on
The district geothermal pilot in Framingham, Mass., that I wrote about two years ago goes online this week, reports Canary Media: On Tuesday, utility Eversource will flip the switch on the country’s first utility-operated underground thermal energy network. The...
Skip the transformer delay: Run the EV charger off a battery
It takes a honkin' big battery to power an EV fast-charging station, but that' s how a two-vehicle station in Weymouth, Mass., works, according to this Boston Globe story. Using a battery lets them sidestep a shortage in transformers. The battery can be recharged by...
NH patents through June 2
(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 June 2. Malicious Homoglyphic Domain Name Detection and Associated Cyber...
Don’t touch this caterpillar (which has just entered NH)
From NH Forest Health Bureau: Browntail moth caterpillar winter webs have been located and removed at the Isles of Shoals off of the New Hampshire coast, the N.H. Forest Health Bureau announced today. This is the first confirmed incident of the species in the Granite...
Mirror Lake winter: Ice-in, ice-out, ice-in, ice-out, ice-in, ice-out, ice-in, ice-out
From Hubbard Brook Research Foundation: During the 2023-24 winter season, Mirror Lake underwent four separate freeze-thaw cycles, as determined by an event never before seen during the lake's 60-year ice record. Hubbard Brook technician, Tammy Wooster, from the Cary...
Nine more NH school districts get electric-bus grants
As four electric school buses in Henniker and Weare wind up their first full month of operation, news has come that nine more school districts in New Hampshire will get funding for the buses them in the latest round of federal grants. In Wednesday’s announcement, part...
“Don’t drink raw milk — that’s the message.”
A study from Wisconsin - a dairy state if there ever was one - found that when you fed unpasteurized milk contaminated with bird-flu virus H5N1 to mice, it made them sick and damaged their organs. It didn't "boost their immune system" or anything like that; it just...
NH patents through May 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 May 26. *** Shoe Sole COLE HAAN LLC, Greenland, New Hampshire has been...
Co-parent of PDP-8 & VAX dies; those systems helped create modern New Hampshire
The final big textile mill left New Hampshire right after WWII, although the industry had all but died before that, and the state was hurting economically. We were saved by tech firms taking their place - either local defense contractors (Sanders Associates) or...
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