Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
UNH dementia care robot enters home testing
I like this story from UNH Today because it doesn't oversell the project, emphasizing the ongoing nature of testing that's needed. That seems to be lacking from a lot of tech releases these days. By Aaron Sanborn, UNH Today: A multi-year effort to develop and test a...
An electric ferry on the Merrimack River?!?!?
There are a number of neighborhoods along the Merrimack River named So-and-so's Ferry, reflecting the pre-bridge days when boats carried people and passengers from one shore to another. But there hasn't been a real ferry service on the river for - I don't know, a...
NH patents through Nov. 23
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 Nov. 23. *** System and Method to Monitor Power Source Connections ALLEGRO...
NH, other N.E. states join to boost heat pumps
Five New England states (Vermont, surprisingly, isn't part of it) have launched a $450 million effort to warm more of the homes with energy-efficient, low-emission heat pumps instead by burning fossil fuels. Canary Media story is here. The New England Heat Pump...
UNH Ginkgo tree has latest-ever leaf fall
A video about the Ginkgo tree is racking up six figures online. Here's the video, with an explanatory chart below https://www.youtube.com/shorts/23cYMlMN244
“The collaborative quest to build a weather station tough enough to measure Mount Washington’s gales”
Good lead to the NH Bulletin story on efforts to maintain weather-monitoring equipment atop Mount Washington: “They tend to fold in half.” More often than staff at the Mount Washington Observatory would like, that’s just how it goes for weather monitoring equipment...
11 towns will benefit from 5 MW solar array in Warner
A big (by NH standards, anyway) solar farm is coming to Warner but what's really significant is that it is a community-solar project, with 11 municipalities signing on to get savings in their energy bill through New Hampshire’s group net metering program. Details are...
It’s been a (very) long time coming, but a new Quebec-to-New England transmission line is about to start
That power line from Quebec to Maine may start working by the end of the year, now that Avangrid (part of Iberdrola Group) has secured the final permit for the New England Clean Energy Connect project. It is planning "energization" by end of this year. The permit...
NH jumps further on the Bitcoin wagon, preparing $100m in crypto-backed bonds
New Hampshire is planning to issue the first-ever government bonds backed by Bitcoin, further marking the state as a leader when it comes to embracing cryptocurrencies. The move comes six months Gov. Ayotte signed a bill that made New Hampshire the first state with...
Americans are going to have to learn to calculate multiples of 5
The United States is quietly heading into a massive change of the type we haven’t seen for 170 years. It sounds scary, but don’t worry: I’ve lived through it already, and it’s not so bad. We are discussing here the slow demise of the penny, the dark-brown coin beloved...
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