Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Neighborhood geothermal project coming to Vermont
From Vermont Public (full story here): Vermont’s natural gas utility is teaming up with two local affordable housing developers to experiment with using geothermal energy to heat a new neighborhood in Hinesburg (a small town south of Burlington) without fossil fuels....
A chat with Vermont’s new Cartoonist Laureate
If you think that cartooning is a silly little subset of life that has nothing to do with you, the new Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont has some news. “Anybody who uses a cell phone, a digital device, a computer, is far more literate in the combination of words and...
NH patents through March 29
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 in the week through March 29. Cost Effective Cartridge for a Plasma Arc Torch...
There’s an older crowd saying ‘I do’ in New Hampshire these days
If you heard this story on NHPR this morning (March 31), this is the story they used: The joy and pageantry of weddings hasn’t changed much in the past generation but the age of the people walking down the aisle sure has. Consider this: In 1995, five percent of New...
Seacoast’s aquatic septic system won’t be around this year
NHPR reports that New Hampshire's Royal Flush, also known as the “poop boat,” which provided a roving pump out service for boaters' sewage tanks, won't happen this year because Republican legislators cut back on useful government services so that a private company can...
Gosh, offshore wind helps buffer New England from winter blackouts! Who could have guessed?
A report released by the Union of Concerned Scientists in February, found that offshore wind energy could have significantly lowered the risk of a blackout in the New England winter season. It analyzed two projects — Vineyard Wind in Massachusetts and Revolution Wind...
An explainer about negative electricity prices
What does it mean that electricity prices in New England are sometimes negative? ISO-NE has an explainer, here. A key point, not obvious to us outsiders: Negative prices haven’t had a dramatic effect on overall wholesale electricity costs. They occur primarily in the...
What’s our big concern: overpopulation or underpopulation? You decide!
Polls that ask people's opinion on big, sweeping issues that they haven't much about - I regard them with great suspicion. Our response to the artificial constraints of a poll don't always reflect our actual thinking or actions. With that proviso in mind, here's a...
NH patents through March 22
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 in the week through March 22. Medical Treatment Systems, Methods, and Apparatuses...
Trying once again to build big wind power in northern Maine
With offshore wind finally starting to exist in real amounts - New England produced a record 1,700 MW of wind power at one point last week, which is great but nowhere near the amount we need - Maine is trying again to boost its onshore wind in the thinly-populated...
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