Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Live near Concord airport? Weather system needs you UPDATE: One has been found!
UPDATE: A new snow observer has been found! - and the new person learned of the post because of this article in the Concord Monitor If you’re one of those people who loves to brag or complain about how much snow you get – and since this is New Hampshire, of course you...
Even when lobsters don’t move north, warming water changes their habits
We all know that the Gulf of Maine is warming fast, helping push lobsters north to cooler waters. (They're already disappeared from Long Island Sound.) A new UMaine study finds that even if they stick around, their habits change. Whole article in phys.org is here. For...
NH patents through Oct. 20
(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 Oct. 20. *** System and Method for Free Space Estimation DEKA PRODUCTS...
Maine to offer Starlink terminals to its roughly 9,000 internet-less homes
Press release from Maineconnectivity.org: (with some self-congratulatory quotes removed) Maine Connectivity Authority (MCA), the public agency leading the statewide expansion of broadband and digital equity in Maine, today announces the launch of the Working Internet...
For every EV, 200 gas cars in NH
The most recent data I can find about EV registrations (from 2022) says that in New Hampshire and Maine, there are about 200 gasoline cars registered for every battery electric vehicle, while in Vermont and Massachusetts the ratio is 100-1. Source: Alternative Fuels...
Return of the happily inefficient way to be energy efficient
A hands-on program to help people reduce window drafts by building them insulated inserts is coming to Canterbury Town Hall – which is, it turns out, a most appropriate location. “We convinced the town that our 200-year-old Town Hall could use it,” said Claudia...
A half-century observing NH wildlife and he’s optimistic?!?!
Decades of working with and watching New Hampshire’s woods and wildlife has left Eric Orff with a feeling that unfortunately is not very common among outdoor folks these days: Optimism. “If you read through the book you’ll see we’ve come a long way in the half-century...
NH patents through Oct. 13
(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 Oct. 13. *** Shoe COLE HAAN LLC, Greenland, New Hampshire has been assigned...
One China turbine may outproduce all of Lempster Mt. wind farm
Chinese company Dongfang Electric Corp. says it has built a new offshore wind turbine with a power-producing capacity of 26 megawatts. If true, that is freakishly enormous: The entire Lempster Mountain Wind Power Project, whose 12 turbines were the first wind farm in...
Documenting skeletal remains found on historic ‘poor farm’
From UNH News Service: On a bright autumn afternoon, a plain wooden box crafted by a local cabinet shop containing skeletal remains was returned to its final resting place during a simple reburial ceremony in Brentwood. Researchers and students from the University of...
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