Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
You can watch the Perseid meteor shower from a Lake Winnipesaukee cruise
From The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center: The Perseid Meteor Showers return this weekend, starting Friday (Aug. 11). The waning moon will wash out fainter meteors, but as this meteor shower is known for its high prevalence of fireballs, there should still be a...
Dartmouth research is cited often in other folks’ patents
Dartmouth College ranks highly in a new measure of the impact of academic research on global innovation, according to the Nature Index 2017 Innovation supplement. The index examines how often research articles from top science journals are cited in third-party patents...
Speaking of patents, here are some issued in New Hampshire recently …
(This runs in the Concord Monitor each Monday but it fell through the cracks this week, so here it is.) Recent patents issued to NH inventors and/or companies: DEKA Products, Manchester, N.H., has been assigned a patent (9,713,667) developed by five co-inventors for a...
A new store in Portsmouth accepts only bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
New Hampshire Tech Hub, a recently started news/event source for the state's tech community, has a story about a tourist shop in downtown Portsmouth that only accepts cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. It's called the Free State Bitcoin Shoppe - and I must say that I love...
If you have a Stirling engine to test, you can put it in the state hospital laundry room
New Hampshire has found the place it wants to test an intriguing power source known as the Stirling engine: In the laundry room of the state hospital. On Thursday the state asked for companies to bid on its plan for a Stirling engine – a variant of gas-powered engines...
UNH to study whether pesticides on crop seeds accidentally make weeds worse
From UNH News Service: A researcher with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire has received a $474,679 grant to determine if pesticide seed treatments inadvertently protect weed seeds in the soil from being attacked by naturally...
Founder of international math institute in Peterborough (yes, Peterborough) passes away
One of the most surprising connections between New Hampshire and science has to be the fact that the Clay Mathematics Institute, famous for its million-dollar Millennium Prizes to solve 9 deep mathematical problems (one of the original 10 has been solved), has its...
Hydro power lines, solar clusters and wind farms – one with 40MW of batteries – line up for Mass. power
The big news in large-scale New England alternative energy is the Massachusetts Clean Energy program, in which utilities were required to procure 1,200 MW of clean energy, including large-scale hydropower, in addition to a separate requirement to obtain 1,600 MW of...
If George Bailey (“It’s a Wonderful Life”) was in banking today, would he be handling bitcoin?
Fans of bitcoin in New Hampshire can now buy the digital currency the old-fashioned way – by walking into a local bank branch and writing a check. BitQuick, a Chicago-based cash for bitcoin startup, says that people can now buy the cyber-currency from other BitQuick...
The good stuff is redacted from bids for Mass. Clean Energy RFP
If you're a real New England energy financing wonk, you'll want to pore through the bids for the Massachusetts Clean Energy RFP, to see who submitted - but note that all the good stuff (like money) is redacted. Here it is.
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