A former paper mill in Lincoln, Maine, will host a large scale battery storage facility partially funded with a $147 million federal grant. Story from Maine Public is here. Lincoln is way up there - past Bangor en route to Mt. Katahdin. Two things of geeky interest:...

It's been 15 years since bitcoin came on the scene and there still isn't any legitimate use for it, which says something very unflattering about the whole idea of cryptocurrency. Illegitimate uses, on the other hand, are all over the place. That realization was...

Today’s column, I’m happy to say, involves good news about the environment. It’s not huge news, admittedly, and it’s not quite as exciting as I thought it was going to be, but in today’s world, I’ll take anything I can get. The story concerns a wetlands plant called...

The Google-is-a-monopoly ruling by a judge is a big deal, although how big remains to be seen. New Hampshire is one of the plaintiffs. If you are writing the press release for your boss, the attorney general, this is how you'd put it: Concord, NH - Attorney General...

(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 Aug. 4. *** Elastic Scheduling PARALLEL WIRELESS, INC., Nashua, New...

Remember when Vermont was listed as one of the places to go, to avoid climate change disasters? How things have changed. The state has been hit by back-to-back-to-back-to-back historic flooding. Tyler Jankoski of the NBC affiliate in Vermont pointed out that in 130...

That's fitting, I think; Harvard always seemed a little too establishment for the cleverest geek parody show around. Here's the news from Marc Abrahams, the chief Ig himself: On Thursday night, September 12, 2024, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners will be announced — and...

A manufacturing defect led to the July 13 failure of a turbine blade on the Vineyard Wind offshore energy project, turbine supplier GE Vernova said in an earnings call Wednesday, according to Workboat.com. The whole article is here. The break on turbine AW38 in the...

When a global catastrophe is destroying entire towns overnight via fire, flood and storm, it shouldn’t be hard to convince people that we should take things seriously. If only. It has been 20 years since I began writing stories that warned about the alarming things...