Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
After the floods, Montpelier takes a new look at removing dams
In mid-summer I wrote a piece called "With all the flooding, should we still be removing dams? Yup!" Here's a specific followup from SevenDays Vermont: How a long desire to remove four small dams on the Winooski River is getting a new push after the summer flooding....
Hooray for a really inefficient way to reduce people’s energy use
The couch in my living room is against an outside wall, right under a window. I have spent three decades trying to eliminate the draft against the back of my neck when I sit there. WindowDressers might have an answer. Better than that: They go about it in an...
A downtown development with no parking spaces – sign of the times?
A large development by the standards of downtown Portsmouth has been approved by the city with no on-site parking spaces, reports Seacoast Online: "The board granted a conditional use permit to McNabb for his historic 111 State St. property, which allows him to...
NH biotech effort selected as Tech Hub, can compete for $500m
The biotech cluster from the Manchester Millyard to Nashua was one of 31 programs in the country chosen for economic development by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which designed "Tech Hubs" that can compete for $500 million in federal funding. "The program ... is...
NH sues Facebook as ‘addictive,’ harmful to children
New Hampshire has joined 41 other states suing Facebook and Instagram for using “addictive” algorithms that “exploit the developmental vulnerabilities of children and trap them into never-ending use.” The complaint filed in Merrimack County Superior...
NH patents through Oct. 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 through Oct. 22. *** Modular Electronic Warfare Framework for Multi-Core Execution...
Looking for new crops in a boiling world. How about buckwheat?
From UNH News Service: This year’s rain, floods and freezing temperatures are a reminder farmers need many strategies to find resilient crops, especially for food production. Researchers at the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) at the University of...
NH ham radio network will cross state borders
The Merrimack Valley Amateur Radio Association (MVARA) has received a grant award of $46,125 from Amateur Radio Digital Communication, a California-based foundation, to expand its current 7-node microwave network in southern New Hampshire. The project includes...
NH lawmakers on electric vehicles: very pro, very con
This is the season for New Hampshire's vast lawmaking crowd (400 state representatives!) to propose bills in what are known as LSRs or legislative service requests. Basically they say "I'd like a law that does so-and-so" and then the staff tries to write a legal,...
Counties (wait – does NH have counties?) can get in the community power game
The most interesting energy thing happening in New Hampshire right now isn’t due to cool tech or federal money, it’s part of that terribly ho-hum tedious topic, local governance. Actually, it’s more ho-hum than that: It’s county governance. Compared to most states,...
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