Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
When Mass. 911 crashed, old fire alarm boxes still worked. Analog rules!
On Wednesday an alert went out saying that our 911 system was down - then another alert came out saying, no, it's just Massachusetts. Same thing happened in Vermont and Maine. So what happened to Massachusetts? The Boston Globe has a story (here): Massachusetts is one...
Ham radio remains surprisingly relevant
It says something about amateur radio that despite its high-tech trappings – they can bounce signals off the moon, chit-chat with the International Space Station, and have to keep track of solar storms – one of the tools used in the field is a rock tied on a string....
Even if Concord isn’t record-hot this week it will be record-miserable
Concord may not break pure temperature records for the next few days as the Heat Dome arrives (although we might, it's close) but it will probably be more miserable than ever before and for a longer stretch. The record high temperature for Concord for June 18 through...
Science Cafe discusses ocean currents – will climate change alter them?
Science Cafe New Hampshire in Nashua will discuss "Ocean Currents: Their State and Our Future" on Wednesday, June 19, from 6:30 t 8 p.m. at The Rambling House, 57 Factory St Nashua. Very interesting topic, I think. Ocean Currents are critical to moving heat and...
What if your septic field was above ground? Sometimes they are
A proposal by Mount Sunapee Resort to expand parking has drawn attention to a half-century old portion of the sewage treatment system that includes three wastewater lagoons next to the access road, near a brook that flows into Lake Sunapee. “This is a method that was...
NH patents through June 16
(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 16. *** System and Method of Object Tracking Using Weight Confirmation...
Really Bad Chess would send Kasparov off the deep end
A lot of news sites are adding puzzles/games to help retain readers (as the NY Times notes) , and the Concord Monitor is among them. However, there are only so many different word/shape/number puzzle games in the world so there are a lot of...
Mirror Lake’s crazy winter, another sign that weather is no longer predictable
Note: I ran a quickie version of this story in the blog/newsletter on May 31. This expanded version ran in the Monitor on June 10: Mention the concept of “ice in” and “ice out” to a New Hampshirite and chances are we’ll think of Lake Winnipesaukee. Our biggest lake...
NH patents through June 9
(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 9. System, Method, and Apparatus for Infusing Fluid DEKA RESEARCH...
NHPR looks at sorry state of grid connections in NH
All over the country - in much of the world, in fact - there's a logjam of renewable-energy projects trying to get connected to the grid. Basically the problem is that the system in most countries was built for the old grid, where power went one way from a relatively...
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