Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
A fifth of New England’s electricity will be distributed generation within “a decade or so”
"In the next decade or so, New England’s power grid is on course to becoming a hybrid grid where up to 20% of the power system’s resources are made up of smaller power resources connected directly to retail customers or to local distribution utilities—and not the...
Forget global disaster – this is really important: Climate change is going to hurt real estate values!
I suspect that UNH researcher Cameron Wake, who has been warning about climate change for a couple of decades - I've been writing about him since at least 2004 - is getting a little tired of operating within academic restraints. At a recent editorial board meeting...
FAA to change airport lighting because it attracts too many birds
Reports the Guardian: The Federal Aviation Administration said it will change the lighting on towers across the US after its research found that birds are attracted to steady red lights that highlight obstructions to pilots at night. The research found that static...
New Hampshire’s two famous UFO events get the documentary treatment
A direct-to-download documentary called "Strange Septembers" is coming soon, examining New Hampshire's two claims to UFO fame: The first-ever reported alien abduction in 1961 if Betty and Barney Hill of Portsmouth, and a reported UFO sighting in 1965 near Exeter. The...
Utilities want to have “out-of-sight drones” to do power line inspections
From SmartGrid News: The Edison Electric Institute, the trade association for investor-owned electric utilities, is forming a partnership with Sharper Shape, to develop Unmanned Aircraft Systems beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flights in the U.S. - the idea being...
Roundabout? Traffic circle? Rotary? Traffic engineers goes round and round
The terminology surrounding circular roadway intersections can be confusing – traffic circle? roundabout? rotary? – but traffic engineers have embraced them in recent years as a way to allow traffic to flow through intersections with fewer accidents and less delay....
Small earthquake reflects New Hampshire geology
It sounded like a heavy truck rumbling past or a load of snow sliding off the roof, depending on your point of view, but Monday’s small earthquake near Contoocook was actually a reflection of how quiet New Hampshire is, earthquake-wise. “Why don’t we have more...
Whole lotta “light shaking” going on – NH feels another small earthquake
It sounded like a heavy truck rumbling past or a load of snow sliding off the roof, depending on your point of view, but Monday’s small earthquake near Contoocook was actually a reflection of how quiet New Hampshire is, earthquake-wise. “Why don’t we have more...
Recent patents in New Hampshire
The following federal patents were recently assigned to companies in New Hampshire. Bauer Hockey, Exeter, has been assigned an ornamental design patent (D750,842) developed by Jacques Durocher, St-Jerome, Canada, for an ornamental design for an “outer shell of a...
Vermont 1, General Mills 0 in the GMO-labeling war
(UPDATE: After I posted this, a reader tweeted that he had seen table salt labeled as "non-GMO". Table salt! You have to admire such thinking outside the box.) AP reports that General Mills has backed down from tussling with the Green Mountain State over GMO labeling,...
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