Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Will electric cars bring us time-of-use rates?
It exasperates me that we're so slow to set up some form of time-of-use rates for electricity, since that's such a straightforward way to get people to shift when we demand power, making it easier to balance a clean grid. The power of market incentives, the invisible...
Maybe the metric system can fix my kitchen follies
I am not one of those people who gets all hot and bothered about the need to adopt the metric system. I’m perfectly happy with inches and degrees Fahrenheit, which fit better into daily life than than centimeters (too small) and degrees Celsius (too big). But COVID-19...
Reopen goal update: 1. No; 2. No; 3. Almost; 4. Yup
The Concord Monitor is keeping track of four measurements that are often cited as good indicators of how the COVID-19 pandemic is progressing, looking at data provided by New Hampshire. This is our weekly update on how we’re doing on these four goals, looking at data...
Dartmouth is on patent list
Dartmouth is the only Northern New England institution on a list of 100 colleges and universities that got the most U.S. "utility patents" - those that involve a new or improved product, process, or machine. It is No. 91, edged out by the University of South Carolina...
N.H. patents through June 7
By Targeted News Service The following federal patents were assigned to companies in New Hampshire from May 31 to June 7. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Multi-RAT Heterogeneous Carrier Aggregation Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned...
Let’s try to quantify the ‘can N.H. open now?’ debate
NOTE: This column ran Monday. I'll be updating it weekly; you can see it on ConcordMonitor.com by next Monday if you can't wait for the Thursday newsletter. If you’re wondering how we will know when the pandemic is over, there’s good news and not-so-good news. The...
Budget woes & pandemic squelch monitoring of lake beaches
A budget freeze and pandemic-related difficulties mean the state won’t be monitoring water conditions at lake beaches this summer looking for harmful algae blooms, but will only monitor ocean beaches. “New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services has a hiring...
UNH: Male gamers don’t work out as much or eat very well
In a result that will surprise nobody, a UNH study has found that "college men who play video games tend to exercise less and have poorer eating habits compared to non-gamers." Here's the report from UNH News Service: Results from a new study by researchers at UNH...
First-of-its-kind push wants N.H. Electric Cooperative to become a broadband cooperative
Timing, they say, is everything, and the timing of a push for broadband internet within New Hampshire Electric Cooperative couldn’t be much better. “The argument is a whole lot easier now than it was a year ago,” said Dick Knox, one of a number of people behind a...
State is on the lookout for wild turkey families
I was working the other day in my home office - former den, former kids' computer room, former playroom - when a dinosaur looked at me through the window to my left. Actually, it was a wild turkey, but they sure have weird-looking heads. It could easily have been a...
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