Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Vermont ready to join Calif., ban sale of new gas cars by 2035
Vermont is a tiny auto market and its decisions have little national repercussions but this (as reported by the VT DIgger via Valley News) is still impressive - it may join the program adopted by California in August: State regulators are on the cusp of adopting a...
Bio-based (mostly wood product) 3D-printed home unveiled at the University of Maine
Interesting project at UMaine. (Full story here) The 600-square-foot prototype features 3D-printed floors, walls and roof of wood fibers and bio-resins. The house is fully recyclable and highly insulated with 100% wood insulation and customizable R-values....
Coping with climate change shows up even in golf carts
Nobody in their right mind can downplay the unfolding disaster of the climate emergency now that global evidence has, unfortunately, become overwhelming. But there’s still plenty of room for debate about how we should react. A perfect example occurred at the Concord...
N.H. patents through Nov. 20
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Mastodon, here I come
Twitter has been a great website - I've made connections with people and learned a lot in a dozen years. On the assumtion that it will either die or become so unpleasant I won't want to stay, I have set up a Mastodon account. Mastodon uses different servers; I...
Vermont is No. 1 in EV chargers (per capita, that is)
A study by CoPilot using federal data says Vermont has 140 EV charging ports per 100,000 residents, the highest rate in the country. California is No. 2 and Massachusetts is No. 3 but its per capita rate is half that of Vermont. Rhode Island is No. 6 and Maine is No....
1940s precedent based on citrus farm may hurt NH file-sharing startup
Great story from New Hampshire Bulletin about the latest legal challenge for LBRY, a New Hampshire startup for file-sharing that uses "tokens" which regulators say act like securities and should be regulated as such. It has an interesting historical backdrop with...
Wild venison is the most eco-friendly food around
This time of year, thousands of natural-food enthusiasts are prowling through New Hampshire’s forests, rifles in hand, hoping to obtain the most ecologically-sound meal possible. What meal is that? Wild venison: the muscle and fat from a deer you’ve recently killed...
Another big math result from ex-UNH star, maybe
Back in 2013, Yitang “Tom” Zhang, a calculus lecturer at UNH, submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics about a problem known as the twin-prime conjecture. Within a week, his breakthrough had drawn worldwide attention from research mathematicians, Harvard had...
UNH to help map state’s broadband gaps
From UNH News Service: NH GRANIT, a mapping agency for the state based at the University of New Hampshire, is receiving close to a million dollars from the N.H. Department of Business and Economic Affairs (BEA) to inventory and map statewide broadband coverage that is...
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