Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Those anti-vax bills got shelved (whew!)
The two anti-vaccine bills that I wrote about last month have been shelved and are dead this year, although they can always come back. After they passed the House due to GOP support, the Senate Health and Human Services committee is sending both to "interim study,"...
Could you grow radishes on the moon?
If you, like me, often despair of producing a garden in the mix of stones, sand and grit that New Hampshire optimistically calls “soil,” remember that it could be worse. You could be working with dirt from the moon. “It’s hard to grow in this material. It’s basically...
Big changes are coming to NH electricity (just don’t ask for long-term details)
The folks who run New England’s power grid think New Hampshire is going to see big changes in the creation and the use of electricity over the next decade, with a ton of new solar panels feeding a ton of new heat pumps and roughly 200,000 more electric vehicles. That...
NH patents through May 12
(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 12. *** System and Method for Generating a Drive Signal DEKA PRODUCTS...
As batteries and solar (finally) replace NH coal, offshore wind beckons
New Hampshire’s two coal-fired power plants in Bow and Portsmouth look similar to the passer-by with their aging industrial buildings, rail lines and smokestacks. But as both places prepare to transition from burning coal to hosting fleets of batteries and solar...
When returning to the moon, politics and fear of war is (alas) part of the discussion
NASA’s return-to-the-moon program Artemis has 18 New Hampshire companies and institutions supplying products or services, from temperature sensors to gaskets to research projects, so it was no surprise that business was featured when astronaut Christina Koch...
As COVID counting ends in NH, CDC raises more concern about bird flu
The last public accounting of COVID spread in New Hampshire has ended: The N.H. Hospital Association is no longer posting weekly counts of COVID patients in hospitals. That was the last easily accessible count that gave us a sense of the disease in the state. I've...
Science Cafe May 15: Cybersecurity Demystified
Science Cafe NH in Nashua will hold its monthly discussion-in-a-bar about cybersecurity on Wednesday, May 15. "Join us as we bring together a panel of experts from the realms of high-tech and law enforcement to shed light on the intricate workings of online...
A chance to Q&A Manchester airport’s director
On Thursday, May 9 at the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire (alongside Manchester-Boston Regional Airport) Ted Kitchens, director of the airport, will give a talk and answer question about recent airfield developments plus effects of the global aviation industry. The...
NH patents through May 5
(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 5. *** Process for Applying Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Sleeves ALBANY...
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