Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
N.H. patents through July 5
By Targeted News Service The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from June 28 to July 5. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Tracking Area Planning Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,701,668,...
Is COVID’s toll in N.H. nursing homes extreme or typical? Yes.
There’s no denying the tragic toll that COVID-19 is taking on people living in long-term care facilities in New Hampshire, yet the most-cited statistic about the situation makes the state seem more of an outlier than it actually is. A staggering 80% of the 371 deaths...
A tale of scum, sludge, and yet another thing that COVID-19 is ruining
I was once asked to describe the difference between urban and rural. Simple, I said: It’s septic systems. If you’re connected to a wastewater treatment plant then you’re a city person, no matter how bucolic your surroundings. But if your toilet dumps into a concrete...
Vermont being Vermont: Mandatory composting & plastic bag ban
As of July 1, plastic bags are mostly illegal in Vermont and people cannot throw food scraps in the garbage. These two laws, in the works for a while, were almost sidelined by COVID-19 but, as VTDigger reports (here), they have stayed in effect. Vermont has slowly...
And (honk, honk!) we’re back ($#&*@!! traffic)
Traffic counts at E-ZPass stations on New Hampshire highways are back to the level they were at before the stay-at-home order arrived March 28. So one of the few benefits of the pandemic has faded away. Car traffic is actually slightly behind the long-term average -...
Delightfully named lumpfish might boost caged salmon production
From UNH News Service: Sea lice hurt Atlantic salmon, steelhead trout and other salmonids, and researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire believe using lumpfish as cleanerfish—fish that eat parasites off other...
COVID goals met – now what? We stay the course, that’s what!
(UPDATE: This ran Monday and I write this on Thursday. Numbers have continued to be good: No new hospitalizations for three days has driven the 14-day average to a record low and new cases are below 30 a day. We're still seeing some deaths in nursing homes, however.)...
Clever idea: Donate solar credits to struggling businesses
Those clever folks at Green Mountain Power created an app so that people with rooftop solar (there are a lot of them in Vermont) can donate solar credits to local businesses struggling because of the pandemic. Here's a Rutland Herald story about it.
N.H. patents through June 28
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from June 21 to June 28. *** Pica Product Development Assigned Patent for Cellular Automated External Defibrillator Tracker Pica Product Development, Derry, New Hampshire, has been assigned...
N.H. Electric Co-op to pursue broadband
Last week members of New Hampshire Electric Cooperative came very close to changing the structure of the group so that it would provide high-speed internet over fiber-optic cables as well as electricity over copper wires. This week the NHEC Board of Directors voted...
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