Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
NH overdose deaths are falling, which doesn’t necessarily mean addiction is declining
Fewer people are dying of overdoses from opioids in New Hampshire, but the Keene Sentinel reports that this may not be due to less drug use or addiction: he new data update last year's total to 276 confirmed overdose deaths, with 14 toxicology reports pending. In...
Science Cafe NH: Wastewater treatment systems
Wastewater is an issue for all of us and Science Cafe NH is bringing together a panel of experts to explore how treatment works today and potential challenges coming our way tomorrow. Keep It Clean: Wastewater Treatment Systems in New Hampshire Tuesday, February 18,...
By one (rather odd) measure, NH is the most rugged state
This reddit post (here) does the following: Assume all states are perfect two-dimensional circles. The Effective State Gradient is prescribed by dividing the difference between the measured highest-to-lowest point of the state by by the radius of the circle whose area...
Utilities love roadside trees – if they’re not too tall, that is
Magazines like to publish articles titled “30 under 30,” listing 30 newsworthy local folks who are under the age of 30. The state’s biggest electric utility has a different idea for that title. Eversource is distributing a big poster with its recommendation...
Extremely important news: Build a Lego set of Mt. Washington Cog Railway
I'm old enough to remember when Lego was little more than rectangular bricks of various dimensions and colors, so you had to use your imagination to build stuff - after walking uphill both ways, of course. This means I'm snooty about prebuilt sets. Having said that,...
There’s a lot of heat in composting manure; how best to make use of it?
From UNH News Service: Scientists at the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) are developing and testing an innovative system that seeks to bring heated production systems to northeast’s small and medium-sized...
No UFO study commission for NH
A bill "establishing a commission to solicit reports and testimony regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena within NH skies and territory" - call it the Barney and Betty Hill Bill - has been killed by the Science, Technology and Energy committee of the NH House of...
No mandatory EV ban in NH garages
The transportation committee of the NH House of Representatives booted out a bill that would have banned electric cars from parking garages. That is a good result - here's legislative summary: HB 182-FN, prohibiting electric vehicles in commercial parking garages....
Runway friction? We don’t need no stinkin’ runway friction!
Landing and taking off in a small plane can be tricky. Doing it on ice, as 164 people did last Saturday, must be a lot trickier. Right? Not really, said William McGowan of Gilford, a pilot with American Airlines for 32 years, as he watched traffic at Alton Bay Ice...
NH patents through Feb. 9
(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 Feb. 9. *** Efficient Threat Context-Aware Packet Filtering for Network...
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