Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
NH is still a laggard in fast charging for EVs
The NY Times has a big article about the improvement in fast charging stations along U.S. highways with excellent interactive maps. (Paywall-less version is here) Most of the highways in the Northeast are packed with chargers (although it gets sketchy going up to...
New England’s last coal-fired plant has closed for good
Six decades after it began, coal-fired electricity is officially gone from New England following the shut-down of Merrimack Station in Bow, the region’s last power plant of its kind. Merrimack Station, which started in 1960 during a wave of new coal-fired electricity...
A real-world user dents my A.I. doubts
f you want to stay a skeptic about the various technologies misleadingly called “artificial intelligence,” you probably shouldn’t chat with Greg Dorfman during an A.I. presentation. “It’s a real tool and I’m hoping to make it a better tool,” Dorfman told me in no...
Follow-up to that “we’re almost 100% broadband” post (which lets me write “information superhighway” for the first time in years)
The news that New Hampshire is very close to 100% broadband penetration marks the culmination of decades of government and private investment to spread online connections throughout the state, work that goes back to the days of dial-up modems. However, uncertainty...
NH patents through Sept. 18
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 Sept. 28. *** Reciprocating Diaphragm Pumps for Blood Treatment Systems and...
Vt. electric plane company gets orders from Alaska
Cleantechnica reporter (here) that "Alaskan cargo airline Ryan Air in Alaska (not the same Ryanair Europeans are familiar with) has placed an order for a BETA Technologies Alia electric plane and committed to install up to ten of BETA’s Charge Cube charging stations....
UNH instruments in orbit to safeguard impact of space weather
Here's a video from UNH on construction of IMAP-Lo From UNH News Service: After years in the making, instrumentation designed and built by researchers, engineers and students from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) blasted off on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket from...
One in six New Hampshire workers were working from home in 2024
The New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute has been doing some interesting studies about the state lately. This is from their most recent, concerning the way people get to work: About 16.0 percent, or 121,000 New Hampshire residents age 16 or over who were working in...
It has hardly rained all summer, so why hasn’t the Merrimack River run out of water?
One of the tenets of journalism is that there are no stupid questions, so I guess I'm not embarrassed to ask this: Why hasn't the Merrimack River run out of water? Think about it. We've had almost no rain for two months - this summer was officially the driest on...
Vermont cartoon college turns 20, still has to explain what ‘graphic novels’ are
A slightly edited press release: This year marks the 20th anniversary of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS), a nationally recognized institution dedicated to the education and advancement of cartooning and graphic storytelling located in White River Junction,...
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