Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire 

Like all engineers, beavers sometimes cause trouble

Beavers are awesome engineers, as everybody knows. Sometimes that's great. Sometimes it's not. The Monitor has a story about a long-running right in the town of Bow over a beaver dam and how it is shaping New Hampshire law - you can read it here. House Bill 1530 would...

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NH patents through Jan. 11

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 Jan. 11. Photosensor Having Range Parallax Compensation ALLEGRO...

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A bill for the electricity-geekiest among you

There's a bill before the New Hampshire legislature "requiring utilities and electric grid operators to assess and report the vulnerability of high-voltage transformers to geomagnetic and electromagnetic disturbances, and to recommend mitigation measures to protect...

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Maine might join the ‘balcony solar’ push

Maine is thinking about joining the "balcony solar" bandwagon, as are New Hampshire and Vermont. Hooray! Story from Maine Morning Star is here. That is an online publication, part of States Newsroom, which supports New Hampshire Bulletin and VTDigger among others.

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The ice runway is almost open!

There's a good chance that the state's most unusual piece of transportation infrastructure will be in operation this month, luring pilots from hundreds of miles away who want to say they've landed on an ice runway. It will also lure at least one fan from Concord....

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Tired: Golf. Wired: 30 MW solar farm.

A solar developer has paid nearly $25 million to buy a public golf course that spans Bellingham and Franklin in Massachusetts, with a plan to close the course and install a 30-megawatt solar array. Full story is here.

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About Granite Geek

Dave Brooks has written a weekly science/tech newspaper column since 1991 – yes, that long – and has written this blog since 2006, keeping an eye on geekish topics in and around the Granite State. He discusses the geek world regularly on WGIR-AM radio, and moderated the monthly Science Cafe NH sessions when they were still a thing. He joined the Concord Monitor in 2015.

Brooks earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics but got lost on the way to the Ivory Tower and ended up in a newsroom. He has reported for newspapers from Tennessee to New England. Rummage through his bag of awards you’ll find oddities like three Best Blog prizes from the New Hampshire Press Association, Writer of the Year award from the N.H. Farm and Forest Bureau (of all places) and his 2024 induction into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame.

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