Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Science On Tap to discuss A.I. in N.H. (or maybe AI in NH)
Science On Tap, the "science cafe" discussion series held by the SEE Sciene Center, will discuss AI in New Hampshire at its next session, on Tuesday, Dec. 12. Science on Tap events are informal discussions with local scientists and experts on a particular...
NH patents through Dec. 3
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Dec. 3. *** Method and Apparatus for Processing User’s Ratings and Personal Information An inventor from Hanover, New Hampshire, Peter Newman Golder has been...
County-by-county calculation of EV miles/1,000 residents
When it comes to driving an electric vehicle Addison County, Vermont, the county just south of Burlington, is New England's leader at 347 miles/1000 residents. (I know nothing about that county. Maybe it contains the rich suburbs for Burlington?) That's according to...
New Hampshire’s snowmobile trails are awesome, even to non-fans
I'm no lover of snowmobiles - they're a useful tool and have an important role to play in northern life, but like ATVs and pickup trucks they have been bulked up and oversold. They've become a plague of too-powerful, dangerous, smelly, noisy toys that ruin things for...
Net metering boosts UNH power from landfill gas
There are all sorts of green-energy reasons to admire what the UNH Durham campus is doing with electricity and heat but if that doesn’t move you, consider the green-eyeshade reasons. “It gives us budget certainty,” said Bill Janelle, associate vice president of...
Plant hardiness maps show the northward march of non-New England weather
On Nov. 11, the gorgeous ginkgo tree on the Durham campus of UNH dropped all of its bright yellow leaves at once, an eye-popping move that ginkgo trees are famous for doing at the season’s first hard frost. The annual leaf-drop has long been cause for minor...
NH patents through Nov. 26
(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. 26. *** Rule-Based Network-Threat Detection for Encrypted...
NH is a big hole when it comes to big solar
This map from Canary Media (story here) is worth 1,000 words when it comes to utility-scale (over 1 MW) solar projects. New Hampshire might as well be the Adirondack National Forest.
Independent co-working spaces in NH say “WeWork who?”
The recent bankruptcy of the high-profile startup WeWork may have cast a pall on the coworking industry nationally but you wouldn’t know it from New Hampshire’s independent operators. “We started with 2,400 square feet, now at 8,000. We’re into the majority of the...
Run a speed test at home to help expand NH broadband
UPDATE: In seven months leading up to the day before this story rain in the Monitor, the state has seen 915 speed tests. On the day it ran, they got 270 more, and they're still coming in as I write this. New Hampshire is getting ready to take the next step in bringing...
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