Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Christian Science Monitor casts its eye on NH’s last coal-fired power plant
This blog has written about Merrimack Station, the coal-fired power plant in Bow, NH, on the banks of the Merrimack River, more times than I can count. And I can count really high! But it's good to get different perspectives, so here's the Christian Science Monitor's...
NH patents through March 17
(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 March 17. *** Multi-Channel Communications Antenna ASTRONICS AEROSAT...
Winter lasted just 37 days on Lake Winnipesaukee
And just like that, ice is gone from Lake Winnipesaukee almost before we knew it was there. On Sunday, the earliest ever “ice-out” was declared on the lake, just 37 days after the latest ever “ice-in” was declared Feb 9. The declarations are unofficial, made by Dave...
Four years after COVID, New Hampshire’s death rate is still very high – but not due to the virus
Next weekend marks four years since New Hampshire saw its first death from what was then called “the novel coronavirus,” and although COVID-19 isn’t taking many lives these days, the passage of time shows it has ushered us into an unhappy new normal in terms of...
Hooray! Study finds unmown lawns aren’t great tick habitat, after all
A study by the Connecticut Agricultural Research Station, in a state that has even more of a tick problem than NH does, did analysis on the places in yards where the little bastards like to live. The conclusion: In residential backyards, blacklegged ticks are most...
NH has passed an interesting data-privacy law
New Hampshire Bulletin has a overview of a new data-privacy law in New Hampshire, with details on how it works and who it applies to when it kicks in, next yearr. Senate Bill 255, which takes effect in January 2025, allows New Hampshire customers to take action to...
Landline phones are annoying, except when they’re not
(I've wanted to do a story about Dunbarton Telephone Co. for a long time. This gave me an excuse!)When the AT&T mobile network went down nationally last month, taking some other networks down with it, folks in Dunbarton were able to shrug things off. “Oftentimes...
Many ‘good news’ stories are really ‘undoing bad news’ stories; here’s one about Mass. cranberry bogs
A big part of creating a commercial cranberry bog involves dumping sand to speed and improve growth of the plants. Climate change is making the bogs on Cape Cod and the islands less productive so some are going out of business. The Boston Globe reports (story is here)...
NH patents through March 10
(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 March 10. *** 4g/5g Core Interworking PARALLEL WIRELESS, INC., Nashua, New...
It wasn’t just us who had a lousy winter
From Axios (story is here): The Lower 48 states just experienced their warmest winter on record this year, with extreme temperature departures from average observed across the northern tier of the country, according to new NOAA data. According to NOAA, some of the...
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